SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1198, 5 August 1911, Page 10

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wedding at Feilding. Writes my Feilding comspondent The wedding took placo at "The Willows,' Aorangi, near Feilding, on Thursday, of two Lancashire folk who arrived hero four years ago, coming out 011 th<j samo steamer. These were Miss Annio Hesketh, voungest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. _ Hesketh, of Aorangi, and Mr. James Wilkinson, of Feilding. Mr. H. Curran, missionary, officiated, and the bride looked charming in- a white costume. Tho bridesmaid, Miss WaHbank, was also dressed in white, Mr. Fred Mai acted as lwst man. A largo number of guests were subsequently entertained at tho wedding breakfast by the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson will live in Feilding. About Nurses. The necessity for legislation in regard to nurses and midwives was referred to in the Legislative Council yesterday by the Hon. J. Barr. Too often, he. said, nurses who went through the necessary examination and qualified, were too ornamental. They certainly did tho work, but Die working man who employed them had to engage help to wait 011 the nurse. What was wanted was the womanly woman who would attend to the invalid and look after the little household duties as well.

"if we want legislation in any direction,' concluded Mr. Barr, "wo want some ah teration made here." (Applause.)

Coronation Day in Malay.

Although Coronation Day is now. Quito a thing of the past, echoes of the manner in which it was spent in countries than our own aro just beginning to reach us, each one celebrating it in its own characteristic manner. A correspondent in Ipoh (Malay States) describes the Malay festivities, which, being purely Eastern, had no lack of colouring and life. In Ipoh, to begin with, there was a big muster of all tho school children who wero mnrchcd down to tho "padang" (recreation ground) where medals were given them, and speeches made. Somo of them had come from great distances, and it meant a very long and trying time—but, still, anything for a festival in tho East. There was a circus to seo later on, and a Malay play, _so that the ..occasion meant a great, thing foV.'all ti^;.cbuiltei ; cjiildrei]. The proc«sHofc(wfei>i*.correspon(;ent) '\va<i very schoMs had different uniforms, or, in some cases, merely uniform caps and 1 putties. Ot>o crowd—a Chinese one—were in khaki, with wh.te putties, and wore caps of the motor vwiety. They also had a. couplo of tom-ton:s, and ono or two weird mouth instruments, with which they made a noise that would havo made many a midnight cat wild with envy. Their marching was immense—-of tho deliberate goose-step order—and the objective of marching, that of getting somewhere in a more or less limited time, seemed to have escaped them altogether. They extended tho leg, and put it back in tho same place, keeping it. stiff the whole time, and simply moved nowhere. There were some Chinese girls in gorgeous silks, who also took part, but tho most likeable of all were the' Malays. Tho boys aro such manly little creatures that one can't help liking them. Boy .scouts, of every, nationality known to . these parts, were in great evidence all day. Of course, there was a tremendous crowd of natives, and the padang was a mass of colour, but, otherwise, it was just the samo old mob of children and parents, and the speeches were tho samo old platitudes that you hear everywhere under tho Union iack at such times. At night there weru Chinese fireworks, tho Chineso and lvlings "proceshed" in the usual manner—that is, tho Chineso had their long, illuminated, dragon, supported by about twenty to thirty men, which billowed and wriggled in the most realistic way; the lvlings had their tomtoms, aud half-a-dozen of them wero curvetting and prancing like black fiends, and mad with excitement and drinlc. The air was heavily impregnated with the odour of coconut oil.

Next day there wero native sports, and two teams of Chinese coolies from tho mines were entered for the tug-of-war. Pit one team against another, and (he maximum of excitement, noise, Chin-se language, and effort is the result. The Chineso are always to enter into a contest of that kind, but, when they do. they simply-let'themselves go most wildly. The illuminations, decorations, and fireworks were really very good, and, in the evening, there a fancy dress ball in the club, some of the costumes beins gorgeous. There had also b?en a football match (iiugby). "England v. the World," and "tha World" proved to be an easy winner. Somo of the men had played in good teams at Home, but,'as an exhibition of football, the gams was pretty bad. There wero two or three Maorilanders among Hie team. The natives, who do not seo Rugby played in this part of the country, were greatly interested and pleased with the game "as a spectacle, but they aro not so keen on playing themselves. It is too strenuous, for the country, aud the ground is as hard as concrete.