SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1373, 26 February 1912, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wellington Wedding. At St. Andrew's Presbytorinn Church on Thursday tho yreddiii? look place of Jiiss Martha Patricia Nicholson, second daughter of Mrs. Nicholson, oC Hasting, I and Mr. A. J. Word, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ward, of Pantagiitn. The Eov. P. Ramsay performed the ceremony. Four Weeks of Sea and Sunshine, It is not often that, tho sandy bench at JCurakn Bay is in the possession of so ■many children as were to bo seen there last "week, busily engaged in play, bathing, or else almost lost to sight in their research anions tho mysteries contained in the recesses of the- rocks. The inmates of the Salvation Army's Children's Homo have removed their quarters from the city to the seaside for the next thrre or four weeks in order that they may have the benefit of the fresh air, tho beach, and the sunshine, and, judging by all ono saw and heard, are having u glorious time. It wns no small undertaking to remove a. household numbering , about fifty children of varying a»es, some as youthful as fourteen and sixteen months of af;o, but foresight, energy, and industry on the part o£ those concerned performed wonders. At the bay, the days are never too lons, early though everyone rises, for they all wish to get out of them as much bathing, swimming, playing, rowing , , and fishing as they possibly can. Out for a bathe the first thing in tho morning, at an hour which people in the city would probably consider most unearlhly, they mnJ-.n the most of the swimming lessons that «re given them, nnd competition is quite keen. After that, breakfast at seven, and then, save for mealtimes, the whole of the day is spent oitt in tho sunshine. They have been there about five or six days, and 'already the change is bp«in_in.sr to show its effeot upon them. Even their meal's nre taken outsidß~t)n~the"balcony of tlie largo two-storied housD which thny occupy, partially closed in. by canvas screening. If they are up nt an early hour in tlie morning, they follow the "example of the birds at night, and are tucked away for tho night by tho time that darkness foils. After the stiifliness, dustiness, and lack of spaco which has been their daily portion in town, the freedom of the beach, where they can run and play and shout to their heart's delisht without disturbing (he neighbourhood, comes to them as a supreme delight. Lnst year, when they wore enmped at Day's Bay, they had many visitors to see'how they were faring, and who displayed their , interest in most practicnl ways, lirin.ins; presents of groceries, meat, bread, fruit and vegetables, ns well as sending money to assist in meeting tho household expenses. The enme kindness would bo greatly , appreciated by those in cliavqe of the children, and. parcels left at Messrs. .Tones and Ashdowa. tailors, Willis Street, or nt the New Zcahnd Motor Company, Manners Street, isill be conveyed to tlie bay.

On Board Jhe lonic. During the vcycigc of the lonic from Londcm to Wellington, Mrs. SI. Davidson, a third-class passenger, gavt- birth to n littles girl, who is to be named "tonn, adapted from tho namo of the steamer. A. birthday subscription list was started in the second saloon, and the mother was presented with a very handsome sum for the little child.

Tho Presbyterian Orphanage. Between four and five hundred people were present at the laying of the foundation stone of the new Presbyterian Orphanage at Dcrhatnpcro on Saturday afternoon. Special cars had been arranged for in whicn to convey visitors from tow:i to (he spot, and the ceremony was performed m perfect weather. Dr. Oibb presented his Excellency the Governor, who was to lay tho stone, with a silver trowel, the gift of Mr. Mr>>ce, of the firm of Mace, and Nicholson, builders, b.v whom the home is oreebd, and the children from tho Orphanage termed a youthful bodyguard lor Lord Islington ins'he- reached the site of the future institution. On such' a day, it would have been difficult not to have been charmed with the situation snd siirroumlin;s of the home Unit is to be. Placed en the side of a hill, it commands a wide view of tho plain strc.ching from Berhampore to Island Bay, and ;s, at the same time, sheltered at the back and side by hills, so that it will not receive the full force of the Eoutherlics that come raging in from tlio bay. There are. in ihe grounds (consisting of ten acres), the remains of gardens that were once the prkb of the former owners of the pb.cp, nnd that will, with a- little enre end attention, onco more '•blo»?om as the rose." It was nut surprising that the visitors expressed themselves as delighted with what they A collection was subsequently (niton up, ",-'.d tiip aujount realised reached the sum of .£175.

llafiame A. X. d'Akaza, with her husb.v.ul, the Kussian Consul for Australasia, \y. leaving Wellington 10-ilay for the W;iliivar, ami, later, liotorua, and i .Tiupo. _ Mrs. Gerald Fitzgerald and Ifr*. Rtratn Irani returned to Wellington on &>'.- .iiliiy by tho Jonic from Unglnnd. MiM Hopkinson (Wc'tpor't), who has lioen ovur oti a visit to relatives in W'qlliiiVton, left last week for Nelson, where slie"\vill s»«wl a short time before returuuii to lier lionia. Mrs 1. H. VFilliams, of llnvcleck Xos-tli, ami' t'»e AfisjM William* (2), reLuriisd to New Zealand on Saturday by the ionic. Ifiss Amy AVelj)). frho has been spending Kevprn'l weeks in Uobart, is rctnrniu; to Wellington this week. WnKiinS! , .—"I.ever linutmotj for hr'u>% mid liridfei'-ialdi , . Only Hi? ehnicest of Flov.w <:sid. Specially naelifd, and nent (■! -nv i;iivi of tiie Ddinir.ioii. Miss Murray » Willis .Street (Florist to his Esicellency Lord Islingonl-*