SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 902, 23 August 1910, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

"At Home" at Bishopscourt. The Bishop of Wellington find Mrs, Wnllis hopo to bo "at home" nt Bishopscourt, Keiburne, on Thursday afternoon i'rom 3 to 5.30 in order to give any workers and others who are interested in the coming Mission an opportunity of meeting some of the missioners. Eleven of tho missioners are arriving from_ England on Wednesday, and will bs hi Wellington a. day or two before starting for Auckland, where the mission opens on September 1. The Bishop .'ind Mrs.-Wallis are not issuing formal iuvitations for Thursday, but they are making it'known 'tis widely as possible that they will be delighted to see anyone on Thursday afternoon who may rare lo come in order to make acquaintance with the missioners.

Successful. Competitors. Jji his commrnis on the singing of'tht, Misses !■. and i). Sutherland, of Wangamn, who won the soprano and mezzosoprano duct'at the Napier Musical Competitions, the judge, Mr. Robert Parker, remarked that lie had seldom heard such beautiful renderings as those given by the Misses Sutherland. There was only h. tiny slip, and he awarded 78 points out of a possible of 80. Ho did not think he had heard anything in New Zenland more perfect than that duet. Music runs in the Sutherland family, for 'Mr. A. Sutherland is himself a vocalist and violinist,, and Mrs. Sutherland was for years one of Wanganui's leading sopranos. The daughters are therefore worthy representatives of their musical parents. The same may bo said of Miss Edith Pinches, who won the soprano solo on Thursday evening, for Ml'- and Mrs. Pinches have been for very many years prominent in musical circles, in Wiinganni. Obituary. i A very woilrknown settler in tho Wairarapa, in tho person of Mrs. 0. Williams, * died nt fjreytown on Monday morning. Sho was eighty-nine years of age, and had lived in New Zealand for more than fifty years—the greater part of it being spent in the' Wairarapa. Por some years she lived in Greytown, but was particularly well known in Masterton, where she had several relatives living. ...

New. Zealand Honoured at Blackpool. On the occasion of unveiling a statue, erected to the memory of" Samuel' liaycock, the Lancashire poet, at Blackpool, by Mr. Hall, Caine, the distinguished author, seats wore reserved for Mrs. Lonsdale, of Maarama Crescent, now in England, and for the mother and sister of Mr. . W.. Fielding, urchiteot, of this city. ' ■ • - ' . . Mrs. A. Campbell, who lias many friends in Wellington,- is expected bj; the Sydney boat on Wednesday. Her sister, Mrs. W. Cruickshauk, of Master ton, is coming, down to meet her. A dance, given by Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Beethain, Mr. and, Mrs. H. Holmes, Mr. and - Mrs. J. Perry, Mr. R. Beetham, Dr. Archer Hoskhig, Mr. I l '. Maunsell, Mr. G. Mawley, Mr. G. Moore, and Mr. 'R. Morrison, lias been arranged to take place in the Town Hall in Masterton on Wednesday, September. 7. The third annual dance of the Wellington College Old Girls' Hockey Club takes place on Thursday, August 25, lir St. Peter's, Hall, Ghuznee Street. The cbaperones who have consented to be present are Mesdames Charlesworth, Dinnie, H. Johnston, Jaoobscn. uud 11'Eldowney. Miss Newbigin, who has been visiting, friends in Wellington, left for Hastings yesterday.

Mrs.M. Richmond, of Kelburne, leaves for Dunedin early iu the week.