SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 934, 29 September 1910, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wedding at Masterton. Mr. J.; B. -,Nicbl was in the Methodist Church; Masterton, yesterday, to'-Miss Elizabeth F. Berriman,. only daughter of 'Mr. and- Mrs. J. S. Berriman. Miss' Annie Murray attended as bridesmaid, and Mr.- G. . Niven was-.best man. , ;--'A Wedding at Carterton. At St. Mary's Catholic, Ciiurcb, Carterton, "yesterday afternoon, a' wedding was ' celebrated, . when . Mr. > Whitton;.. of Carterton, and formerly of .New. South Wales, was married to Miss Margaret ..Vitkowski, youngest daughter of .Mrs. V. Vitkowski, :South Carterton. .The Rev.; Father'. Bowe performed the. ceremony:Mr. .A. .Turner (Carterton) was best ,man, and Mri J;.Borlace, -of Carterton, grooms-, , The Misses and Eva Mas !were bridesmaids. • The bride's present from, the bridegroom was an elaborate gold brooch,- and the bridesmaids received; similar. tokens. : The bridegroom received a gold albert from- the; bride., A reception at tho residence 0f... Mrs. Vitkowski-was held after the ceremony. Mr.. and /Mrs. ■ Whitton will reside - at Carterton. Sale of Work. ■ A sale of work,'heid for the purpose of' raising funds for s boys of the: T.M.C.A., was opened yesterday afternoon by Mrs. M. A. "Williams- in' a pleasant .' little speech. Mr. Virgo, who is.visiting .'.New Zealand-, at the.present time,.; also spoke in ■ connection with the work .that ■is being done by' this^institution,'.'' and'* what they hope: to accomplish in tbo time' to 'come; 'Several of .the boys*, mothers and; sisters have been very ;busy. for some time ,past making all sotts of articles for sale,, in the /hope- that :,their , work will havo the Tesult of adding something not altogether micrbscopic to .the amount needed., The .idea.is to have ,something in hand with which Mr. Ryan, when he arrives in ; Wellington, can get to work •• with * for the; boys', .needs. Tho stalls erected; in the, room' devoted to; the bazaar were attrac-. •,'tively: decorated, while 1 streamers of various, colours formed . a ..'tent-liko' canopy across, the .ceiling. Tho stall-holders were :. Plain stall, Mrs. Adair and Mrs. Andrews; iancy stall, Mrs.' Baker and Mrs. Woolley; sweets, ilrs. Hi . Nimmo' 1 and, Mrs, Kelly; flower; stall, Mrs., Keene, and; ice*';creams, Mas--ters Lloyd- and - Ritchie; - produce - stall,: Miss. Bates; doll stall,; 'Miss-;B.'.BoweUt •tea-roomj Miss Adair, Miss' Aitlceni'and Miss .Gordon;;. A igreat "many.'.thanks from those concerned in the .sale of work are duo to Mr; Eglin and Mr. G. Adair, who worked very hard in erecting, stalls .and doing , various "necessary things-in : con;nection with ifc:'" : Passing of a Pioneer. The v death is ; announced at Utakura, Bay of .Islands, of, Mrs.; Joseph Gower, who saw .much , of the early-settlement of, New Zealand. , Her father, the late Mr. John Pugh, arrived at Russell in 1537, and lived at the- mission station, Pahia, until, 1815, when he moved .with his fam-ily;-for .safety' to,' Sydney, . just -escaping' the-sacking ! of Kororareka, ;'He'ireturried ;iii jyear later,. and' : in' 1850 went' to;; live in; Waimate North, his first work being the erection of a flour Mr. Bedg-; good,; a: building still in existence,: and. in : a- fair state :of preservation. . Mrs".; Gower"s ohildhood was passed 'in'- the troublous times' of Heke's war, the battle;, of Ohaeawai having been" fought, "within a few miles of her home. One day an insane. Maori ,rushed , into theirhome,. brandishing/ a tomahawk;' and' threatening • destruction to all the family. .. Mrs.,, Pugh had just "time to snatch .up her:' two little girls, Maria (now Mrs. Hewitt), and- Maggie (the late Mrs;; Gower), and: 'having gained the open air, the. mother suddenly remembered ;her little -baby boy asleep on Fortunately-Mr. .Pugh was .close at hand, and-learning', ofthe state of affairs, he cautiously opened the .bedroom, window and secured the sleeping child, while, the madman , was busy demolishing the'.contents of the kitchen. After a.time help arrived,. and. with con-' siderable difficulty the Maori was secured" and. taken,'away. ; Mrs. Gower was of a quiet; and : unassuming .disposition, kind, and charitable, and lived an exemplary Christian ;life,"and ber: death will be learned' with regret by her many friends throughout tho province of Auckland.. . An Unconventional, Countess, ' The Countess of Glasgow, who is ; now taking, a well-earned :rest, after an un-, usually trying period- of nursing her ,soi, ; - the - Hon.;, Alan '.Boyle, ..shares 'with; her husband a fondness for. agricultural pursuits, a fact'which has made her greatly, beloved by Scottish: farmers and their wives., UnconVentional. to V the extreme, her ladyship, bad. once a' quaintexperience .. which' almost overcame even her own:ideas:;of simplicity. .. It happened. soon after ;the. Earl was made Governor' of .New: Zealan- in .succession .to -LordOnslow. An aide-de-camp was despatched with a verbal invitation to - a newlyappointed.; minister, 1 'who-, owed his posi-tion-rather to natural 'abilities than to any adventitious advantages in the way of birth and training. . With a grin the aide-de-camp gave her ladyship the minister's jreply: Much obliged, but.me and the missus don't meal out." . . t

Mrs.' HenTy Blundeir and Miss Eileen Blundell returned yesterday from Sydney by the Manuka. ■ ' Mrs:' Riddiford, .together, with her daughter, Mrs. Lindsay, arid her children, are passengers from England by tho Corinthic,: due in Wellington on Tuesday. The Misses Ngaire and Phyllis Riddiford are with them also. ~ ■ . Tho proceeds of the salo of Indian goods organised by the Christian Union .of''(he Girls' College resulted in gross. ■ • Mrs. and Miss Hayward, who have been. spending some weeks in Sydney returned .by the "Manuka yesterday. Mrs. and Miss Guinness were passengers from Sydney by the Manuka yesterday. 1 ... ■_ . , Miss Sievwright, of Dunedin, returned from a visit to Sydney. Miss Reid, of Dunedin, was a passenger by tho Manuka from Sydney yesterday. ' •