ONE OF THE NEW SEASON'S FROCKS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 907, 29 August 1910, Page 9

ONE OF THE NEW SEASON'S FROCKS.

19 loft' oE .the women who have to get these tickets themselves cannot enjoy the concert properly, they generally feel liko pulp. I and crowds of my friends who cannot afford 10s. 6d. are quite ready to spend the afternoon waiting to get in, but none of them look forward to securing'the tickets. I want'you to understand thnt wo all realise that the concert will easily'be worth 10s. 6d., and wo would nay it if we were able, but not being nblu I hope you will be able to havo the tickets on sale at the Dresden or elsewhere, say next Thursday and Friday. '• ,■' ' Morning Tea, .:A very enjoyable morning tea wasgiven in the strangers' room of the Pioneer Club on Saturday morning by Mrs. Fitcbett. Tho room looked very bright and pretty with quantities of spring flowers decorating the room and tho., tables. Among those. present were Miss Sinclair, the Misses Watson (2), Miss D'Oyly, Miss E. Ward, Miss Robertson, Miss Kennedy, and several others.

Miss Fowkls returned to Auckland' on Saturday-morning.

Miss Sellar, who has been visiting friends iff Wellington, returned to Pnliriierston on. Saturday.

' The engagement is announced of Miss Minifie, of Kolburne (only daughter of the late Mr. John William Minifie, well known in musical oircles), to Mr. William J. Fc'eney, Karori,' of the New ZealandGorernrnentKajlways.

A tea was given.by tho Misses Putnam at their homo on for Miss Dawson, a visitor from Auckland, who has been staying with them.' Quite a number of people were present, and music and recitations added greatly to the enjoyment of tho afternoon.

The members of the'Thcosophical Society held tho last of this season's monthly, socials at their pretty rooms in Batlanee Street on Saturday afternoon. Musical items were rendered by Mrs. Kendall, Miss Jones, and Mr. Claude ■Allan, and a'short lecture-was delivered by Mrs. Short on tho subject of "Meditation." The many friends of tho members expressed appreciation of these social gatherings, which had served to introduce .theosophy in a simple and telling manner, and. had thus proved both profitable and entertaining.

Sister Frances, tlio riewly-appointcd deaconess to the Dunedin Central Methodist Mission, arrived in Dunedin by the Manuka on Saturday morning. Sister Frances has the distinction of being the first deaconess appointed south-,of tho line. Sho laboured for, seven years in Auckland, where' she had .charge of the Door of Hope, her rescue work being singularly successful, 75 per cent, of' the cases handled by her having satisfactory ond.ing. To gain further experience she proceeded to America, and was, for a year engaged in mission work in tho New York Bowery. Sho afterwards visited England, returning to the colonies to accept an engagement as deaconess in connection with the Central Mission in.Sydney five ytars ago.