SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1559, 1 October 1912, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

"At Home" at Kenilworth. Parliament, with its cares and tribulations, appeared to be a thing utterly forgotten by members yesterday, when they met, in friendly battle, Hansard and press representatives, in a tennis tournament played off at Kenilworth. The weather was almost perfect for playing, very little of the chilly wind that "blew reaching tho court, and the sun shone warmly till well on in the afternoon. Play began at ten in the morning, and some exciting matches were played off. As ever, pen, or the wielders of it, proved the mightier forct* Press and Hansard being tho winners the dav. ' <( In the afternoon Mrs. Leslie held an "at home," the guests sponding the greater part of tho afternoon watching the different games. Tea was served in tho dining room, the small tables being, arranged with anemones and yellow daffodils. Mrs. Leslie wore a cream serge coat and skirt and largo blue hat trimmed with shaded flowers and grass. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Gore, Miss Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. Buick, and Miss Buick, Mrs. Doorley, Sir Joseph and Lady Ward, and Miss Eileen Ward, Mrs. F M B. Fisher, Mrs. Gillon, Mr. and Mrs." M. C. Keane, lii. MacGeorse, Mrs. Levy Mrs Sidey, the Misses Watson (2]t and oir Arthur and Lady,, Gulnne^ Senior Csa'et Prizes. The following ladies bare consented collect and rcccive contributions for Mrs. Ciodtcy s appeal for tho Senior Cadet Companv challenge cupsi-Mrs. Campbell will collect in Wellington Terrace; Mrs. Cha(field and Mrs. Duigan, in Island Bay; Mrs. Algal- Williams and Miss Mary Pearce, iu Hobson Street and Tinakori Road districts; Miss liobin and Mrs. Browne, Mount Cook, Roxburgh Street and district; Mrs. Darling, Kolburne; Mrs. Corrigan, Brooklyn; Mrs. J. P. Luke, Newtown. Jfrs. Godley expects many other ladies she has asked will also help. Some of tho lady collectors in Wellington have already had kind responses, the details of which will be published in a few days. Her Excellency Lady Islington has kindly consented to present a challenge cup for competition among the senior cadets of the wholo Dominion. The conditions will be announced in due course. The Cadets in Canada. •A message in a recent cablegram from Canada states that the New Zealand Cadets won the marching and- manual drill contests, also the award for best appearance, ■ securing tho three trophies awarded by the Empire Club, the Daughters of Empire, and Earl Grey., Australia was first in order of excellence for military accomplishments, New Zealand being second. For the Battleship New Zealand. The lady members of the Navy League are earnestly putting into action an idea to present a Union Jack and a white ensign to the battleship New Zealand on her arrival hero next year. Already between J350 and ,£6O have been subscribed, in shillings, by adults, and pennies and threepences by school children. Tho surplus will be given towards gunnery prizes on the battleship. Local subscriptions may be sent to Mr. R. Darroch, Roseneath School. Feilding Notes. Tho Bridge Club met last week at Mrs. Horrock's. Among tho players were:— Mesdames Gillespie, Miles, Hall, Atkinson, Clayton, Gorton, Halliday, M'Allum, Carr, Misses Spain and Ferguson. ,Miss Ferguson has left for To Kuiti. Mrs. Roberts has returned from Wellington. Mrs. M'Pherson'has returned from Palmerston. Mrs. Stewart, has gone to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie (Blenheim) are the guests of Mrs. 0. N. Gillespie. Mrs. Wall (ICairanga) has gone to Day's Bay. Miss F. Spain has been spending hex holidays at Mrs. Meyrick's. Jlrs. and Miss Wheeler have returned from the north. Several Feildingites braved the ele. ments and, motored into Wautfanni las( week for the rhces. Amongst them were Mr. and Jlrs. Burnett, Mr. and Mrs. Fitzherbert, Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie, Mrs, Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Fry, and others. Mrs. D. Stewart, Misses Kathleen and Leila Stewart, of Tasman Street, leave to-morrow on a visit to Christchurch Mid Dunedin. Mrs. Evans (Nelson), who has been spending a few days in Wellington since her return from a visit to Napier, left for the south on Saturday evening, on a visit to her mother. Miss Evans left lor Nelson the same day. Mi=s Wolff, Masterton, is visiting Wellington, and 13 staying at Miss Malcolm's. The engagement is announced of Miss Flora M'Donald, second daughter of Mr. J R. M'Donald, "Heatherlea," Levin, and Mr Philip Hamilton Harper, solicitor, of tho firm of Harper and Harper, Levin and Otaki. Mrs. W. Lamb (Masterton) is visiting Wellington, and is staying with her te.'utives in Hawker Street. Miss Eleanor Hiorns, of Wanganui, i: staying at the Royal Oak Hotel. 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