SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1404, 2 April 1912, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Ferryside Croquet Club. The result.-, of mulches played on Snliirilny last on the l-'erryside crunuet grounds were as follow:—Championship Singles— Mis.s \. Zohrab beat. Mi-s tlcnllov; Mrs. Cardale beat Miss Maiulel. Mrs. Vanillic now plays .Miss Zohrub in the final round. Handicap Doubles (for Mrs. Goddis's troliJiyl—Miss Ldinoudsou and Mr. lleere lulu) won by default trom Misses Wilton and X. Zohrab) were beaten by Miss V. /ohrab nud .Mr. Mabin, niter a most exciting game.

Utriivo I'm the. faster doubles (Mr. braces tioiihy! are now nenrlv all in. A uooil many members have not entered mviiiK to (he Dnslev holidays but sonic intereslmi; mulches arc cxn.'ctcd to lake pluce when the nlny commences, (liven Kood wenlher, the club, will complete a most sneces-liil season. Ihc lawns at lire-' .>ent Iwuir in good condition. District Nursing Guild of St. John. The enminille,! of the JlMrict NuisiiiK (.mid ot St. .lolin lu-lil a nieeliiiß Yesterday nllernoon. Mrs ]-:. Ilalcoinbe jirown (actint; iiresideni) in the ..[lair. There were also prr.-ent: Mrs. S. ]). Tripe, Mrs. A. A. (.'orrijsan. Mrs. 11. \\. I'le.-ton, Mrs •1. I'. l.ukc, nnd Mrs. \\*> )i. l.'isln.r (lion, seeretary). Miss M. K. I,'obieson apologised for nmivoidablc nlteence on account of b?ui{; out of town. The senior district nurse submitted n report for -March, from which il ivn- «„lhercd (hat 111 patients had rewired attention duiiii- Ihc past month, and Nurses fccxlon and MaCandrew paid lIS7 visits to the sick since the end of J'Vbitiniv. Among the patienls were ca.-es of bronchitis, paralysis, badly burned foot, obstetric cnsL's, senile decay, etc.. The cimimillee aeknow-ledged with thanks subscriptions of 21s. from Mis. ,1. 1». Luke and 10s. lid. .from .Mrs. A. 11. Waters. Gifts in (he form of various comforts were received from Mosdames A'ewman. Tripp, Moorhouse, Town;;, T.ukc. Preston, Johnstone, Hutt, Downhard. Wilson, Kenn-. Coll'm* Jofsph, Smith, Helyer, Sim, Mncarthy, Reid, Ilnrper, T.i.-sick, Walors. M'l.ean, I)?nniston, Davidson. Simkin. "A Friend," Gear Company, nnd Sister Klunbotb..

. Mr. anil Mrs. Allen (Xclsnn) are leaving this week on u visit'to England. Mis. Hugh Williams returned to Mastci'ion yesterday from a brief visit to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. W. Broad (Marlon) are visitors to Wellington. Miss Ethel Irving and her husband, Mr. (illbort. I'orteous. together with the members of their company, left Svdnev for London by the Otranto last week. ' Mrs. J. Bone, who has been spending the last two years in England, returned to Wellington- yesterday.'- •■■...' 'Mr. and Mrs. Moorhouse and Mrs. S. Rhodes arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Kemuera from their visit to England. Mr. and Mrs-. J. C. Chaytor, of Marlborough, and Miss Constance Chnvtor, arrived in Wellington yesterday from England by the Remuera. Miss Kirton (Xcl-on) leaves Wellington to-day for Now Plymouth, where she will *pt-ml a tew day's Wore leaving , lor Aueklund and sailing from there bv the Mongolia for England. Mr. and Mrs. W. Birch (Morton) and Master Birch were, passengers by the Remuera for Wellington yesterday. Miss Ynllaneo and the Misses Bennett, or Otalniao, arrived in Wellington on Sunday by the Maori from the south. Nurse Everitt, the principal of the Massage and Electrical Institute, was the r-eipicnt of a presenilation, on Saturday night, by the members of (he massage class. On February 14, says an English paper, ot the Westminster meeting of the Society of Friends, Mr. Stanley Beale, rf •I Highbury Hill, London, second son of the late William .1. Beale, of Auckland, was married to .Miss Mabel Gertrude Richardson, youngest daughter of the late William Richardson, of Lincoln. The "British Australasian" states that on. January •(, at Holy Trinity Church, Kcw (Vic.), by the Rev. Canon Sutton, assisted by the Rev. C. E. Gayer, Mr. AVnlter Ernest I-'ussall, second son of Mr. Joseph It. Fussall, formerly of the Lands Department, Tihinru, New Zealand, was married to Miss Julia Gertrude Langfon, second daughter of Mr. Rivers Langton,J.P., fiurbiton, Kcw (Vic), and granddaughter of the late George Smith Hayter, of Oak Hill, Surbiton, Surrey. The "British Australasian" announces the engagement of Miss Zillah Hyman, Sydney, daughter of the late Mr. Louis 11. Hyman. of Tamworth, N.S.W., and recently of London, to Mr. Alex, Myers, of Wellington. Miss Hyman is at present in Wellington, and is the guest of Mrs. M. Myers, of Wellington Terrace. Miss Sylvia Wilson accompanied her sister to Carterton from Wellington yesterday, and after making a brief stay with friends, Me=. on to "Brammertou," where she will be the guest of Mrs. Baird. Mr., Mrs., and Miss M'Belli, Kimbolton, who have come to Wellington to see Dr. and Mrs. Beedie, of Kimbolton, off to England by the s.s. Rangatira, are staying at the Royal Oak Hotel. Dr. and Mrs. Beedio expect to be away about a year, and intend going to Scotland and Ireland. Dr. .T. Beedie is locum tenens during his brother's absence.

Mrs Spencer Beard (Mastertnn), who has been spending some years in England for the purpose of completing the education of her son and daughters, returned to Wellington by the Rcmuera yesterday, accompanied by her two younger daughters. Thev are at present the guests of Mr. aud Mrs'. Bucholtz, in Sydney Street. Miss Heard has remained in England with her Ifrother, the Rev. Gascoigne Beard, who has been ordained recently.