SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1480, 1 July 1912, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Tho Passing of an Interesting Personality. Tho death occurred at Majoribanks Street on Friday of Mrs. Fleming (widow of tho late John Stuart Fleming, widely known'sonic years ago in business nnd other circles on the "West Coast and subsequently- in Wellington). Mrs. Fleming arrived in New. Zealand in ISGS, with her eldest son (now Chief Inspector of Schools for the Wellington district), to join her husband, who had left Glasgow six years earlier to start in business in-New Zenland. For some twenty years the family residing .at Westport, and for the greater part of the last twenty years at "Wellington. Mrs. Fleming was born 72 years ago, at Lochee, then n. suburb, but now a part of the city of Dundee. She was - a woman of large heart and wide intellectual sympathies, and rendered valuable service to many of. tho struggling settlers on tlio Coast in the early days. She received u sound education in one of the old parish schools of ■Scotland, nnd being of a studious • temperament, continued all through life a close student of social and of intellectual problems. She took a prominent part in the movement for the extension nf tho franchise to women, and was a delegate for' Wellington to the convention held in connection therewith 18M. Keenly interested in education, fionerally, and in. that of women particuarly, she identified herself whole-hearted-ly with the Home-lieading Union, whoso circle, proved a valuable influence at a time when facilities for social intercourse and intellectual fellowship were much more limited than now. Mrs. Fleming was widely read and soundly informed, and it was a privilege to hear her discuss, during these latter mouths, the works of such celebrities as Sir Oliver Lodge, Alfred liusscll Wallace, and Professors Eucken and Bergson. Mrs. Fleming leaves a gfmvn-up family of three sons and four daughters. The Vanishing of Our Pioneers, The death on, Tuesday last of Mrs. Frederick Giblin, of Stoke, Nelson, removed another of the very old settlers. Mrs. Giblin was born in Cambridgeshire, England, in 182!), and had'.thus attained the great ago of 811 years, of which Bl were spent in the Nelson district. Mrs. Giblin came to Nelsou by tho ship Mariner in 1801, her husband, his mother, and two brothers, Messrs. William and Daniel Giblin, being on the same vessel. Mr. nnd Mrs. Giblin made their homo at Stoke, experiencing theupsnnd downs incidental to early colonial life, and lived ,to see. the younger generation carrying on the work so well laid down by the pioneers. Mr., Giblin predeceased hi.s wife, by some twenty years. A family of three, sons and two daughters survive their mother, Messrs. .Thomas M., Frederick and David Giblin, Mrs. llobt. Beatson (Blenheim;, and Mrs. R. Kclling (Hope).

Mr. Hoadloy (Napier) and the Misses Hoadley nre leaving, in a few weeks' time, on a visit to Engliuid.

Hiss Minn Hugo, who has been in Aucklan'd for tho past fifteen months, continuing- her singing under Mr. Spencer Lorraine, returns to her homo, Daniel Street, on Wednesday.

All's. Dymock and Mrs. Macintosh, who have been away o:a a. visit lo Auckland and Rotorua, are returning to Wellington curly this week. ,

The annual ball of the Oriental Tennis Club tak<!3 plnce in tho Sydney Street Schoolroom on I'riday, July 12. The chaperons lire Mesdanies Nathan, Cornet, Norrie, and Miss Hill.

Mr. and Mrs. Lindegrcen have taken Mrs. E. li. Ostler's house, and are moving in this week. Mrs. and Miss Ostler arc leaving Wellington on a visit to Auckland.

Mrs. 'Miclnino (LJlenheim) ond her 6ister, Miss J. Jforton, aro in town, and nre staying at ''Balmoral."

Mrs. C. IVyallunco (Knhumingi, AVairarapa) is giving ,-v dance to-morrow evening for Miss Dorothy liennctt.

Mrs. Herbert Williams (Gisborno) is in Napier, on a visit lo Bishop Williams.

Mr. and Mrs. AV. IT. Nelson (Woodville) aro staying in Hastings, on their return from Auckland.

Mrs. Richard Stuart (Auckland), who has been suffering from neuritis, has been ordered a long sea. voyage, and is about to leave- on n trip to America Mrs. Stuart is tho wifo of tho well-known theatrical manager, Mr. Richard Stuart.

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