SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1494, 17 July 1912, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Vice-Regal. • On Friday aftefnoon next Lady Islington is to give a- ladies' afternoon tea at Government House. Tea and talk will be interspersed with musical items by Miss Muriel Bennett (mezzo-soprano), Mr., Baxter Buckley'(pionist), and Mr. Borneo Gardiner (siffleur). On Wednesday next her Excellency will give a children's fancy dress party between the, hours' of 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Given,fine weather this should be a very pretty' function as most of the children will appear in fancy dress. Miss Margaret Cooper, the well-known entertainer, -iiid her husband (Mr. A. Humble-Crofts) wore the guests 1 of his Kxcellcney and Lady Islington at luncheon yesterday.

Old Christchurch Identity. ' Mrs. E. P. Peat, ah old: Christchurch colonist, passed away at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. J. Kay, Strickland Street, • Sydenham, oil Saturday morning, at the age of .seventy-four years. Deceased came to New Zealand with her husband, Mr. Harry Peat, in landing at Nelson, where Mr. Peat was a partner in tho firm of Messrs. Peat and Thornton, saddlers.' 'They visited England, but returned, to New Zealand about 1860, and, coining to Christchurch." lived.on the site pa which the railway station 'iiow stands. Later on they went to Enkaia and to Ashburton, and then Mr. Peat entered the teaching profession and conducted schools at Waikuku, Loburn, Taldhurst, and West Christchurch. Lentil Saturday the link of four generations in the family was unbroken,- there being no deaths amongst the forty grandchildren and grcat-grand-children.

Obituary, By the death of Mrs. Edward Lewis, at Auckland, on Saturday, last, another of the rapidly-dwindling: band.'of pioneers passed away. Mrs.- Lewis, who- was 83 years of age. came out to Xew Zealand from England with her first husband, Mr. Chas-. Davis, in )Sf3, and spent nearly all her life in Auckland. -Air. Davis was a well known merchant and owner, of the ship Alary Catherine, in-which they travelled to Xew Zealand. Mi'. .Davis died in 1875, and ;i\ few years later his widow morHed Mr. Edward Lewis, brother of Mr. Gabriel Lewis. Mr. LeVis died in 1909. The late Mrs. Lewis leaves one son, Mr. Adolphus Davis,, and three daughters' -Mrs. L. D. Nathan. Mrs. Arthur H. Nathan, and Mrs. \Y. Camviner, of Wellington—and .a. .number of grandchildren aiid great-grandchildren.

Ladies' Hockey. : The committer* of the .Auckland Ladies' Hockey Association has decided that unless the Management Committee of' tho New Zealand ladies' Hockey Association agrees before July 22 to the holding.of the proposed junior and also to follow the recent ruling by the delegates to the New Zealand Association to tho effect that small associations should not be formed in a district where there ,is already.one head association, the local executive would'on no account undertake this year's tournament. Advice was received lost week that the New Zealand committee would not take the responsibility of granting the Auckland executive permission to enter several junior teams drawn from various country districts, but that the question together with another affecting.tlie tournament would be placed before a meeting of delegates on August 13, only a fortnight before the tournament, which is considered unfair. to the Auckland Executive inasmuch as tliey have no -means'.of knowing how Aiany teams will he in 'Auckland.—Press," ssociation.