SOCIAL AN PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2004, 11 March 1914, Page 2

SOCIAL AN PERSONAL.

Or. Mawson's Marriage. Tlio \ycdciing of Dr. Matfso-n to Mm Delpratt, daughter of tint general manager of the Broken . Hill Proprietary mine, takes place in Melbourne <m March 31. —Press Association. Lady Stanley. An Australian -paper describes the new Governor of Victoria and liis wife as being a nice, natural, yotiflg vnuplo, with a wholesome disregard for that fierce light which , beats arouwl tlio Vice-Regal, dais quite, as much as tho throne itself. Lady Helen. Stanley, beset by innumerable requests for interviews, hit on a, highly original plan, Slio asked all licr «ata;h.i sirs' to afternoon tea at Government House, sud let them do their ivork, They were received by Captain who .ushered them 'into .the ,fa.wing-reflHi, where they were te Lady Stanley by Mr. Victdr H<?od. 'l\w. Governor, who had beeli tttteridiflg a minting, eventually joined tlie party. After refreshments had been sei-ved. tile hostess and her guests .conversed iii the garden. . Lady Stanley .is qiiito young enough ■ to -hate prortoiincad opinions on. matters geilefaily, and ig likely to provp a boon to. the promoters and supporters of children's, parties. Sho 'has three excellent young people of her own—two daughters eight and live yearns old, and a toy of seven.

Mrs. A. L. Wilson lias left on a visit to Auckland.

Professor Shand siwl Mrs, Shaiid returned to Dunediii an Monday from a visit to Wellington.

Mrs. Sloman, who had' been, visiting Wellington, returned to Christohurdi on Friday.

A "welcome pienie" t<? tlie new students of the Wejlm-gtoii Training College is to take place mi the EastiMumo Recreation Ground at Bonn. Bay on Saturday next.

Mrs. J. 11. Guiison (AxJcldaiiti) passed through Wellington last- week on her way through to Chiistthtueh and the Southern Lakes- ' •

Tlie Hon. J. M. Bortbwick and 3lre\ Bortlnvick left Wellbfiton ior Ckriatchurcli at tho end of last weelc .■

Mrs. Hosking was a passenger by tlie Wahino for the s&qth on ittiiiday evening.

Mr. F. W. Wilseiii, oF the proprietary of the "New Zealand Herald,'- 1 and Mrs. Wilson, aro tourin.K by motoi- in the South Island/

Mrs. Hugh Morrison-, of "Aiv'iituitoi" (Vv'airarapa} and kdr children have i'-e----turned from Castlsfloiftt.

The engagement is announced of Miss Dora Alexander, ditti-glitei , of tfhJ.'Jafo l)r. Alexander, of Wellingtrni, to Dr. T. Campbel Friser, of BiMeilin. r -

Miss Ida Moran, sister of Miss Julia Moran, and Mrs. I*. J. Nolan, of Sydney (and all i'orniflriy of Vs'elliiigt6H), is to sing. at.the Irish concert to. lui given in the Town Hall en St. Patrick's Night. ;. ,

.Dr,H. K. Mil! mi Mis. Milt, Vlio li'avc been iolnc weeks, in tho Dofniuion., are at present in Napier.. Dr. is ii. ■wcll-liiiown wi:ilei'. oil : . gaogritjiltical subjects,- was l'or .soiiio years litjsriirluft to the HoyalGeograiJliiial Saeiety, aad since 10Q1 has hqeii jlii'detor *jf tljo British l Itainfall Oi'sanisatibii,' ::

.. An exchange states' that a vell-kniMVii authoress is at prespu.i making Her lipino with her hu'sbaßsl at C!rpy.mmrth in the person of Mi's. Iterek TiujMiteii, ■who writes under' the ih.inic of Eijk| Leigh Hunt. She is a. großt-grarifl> daughter of tho celsbrrttecl essayist rtiiel litterateur, Leigh Hunt, frioMl of Cliurlcs Dickens. Her iyftt books vi'riftfin primarily for g'ifls afer ""flic ' Ad-vent-of Arthur" aiid "Hazetlitlfst." They liavo quite a Togiie iji Eiiglaijd. aiul CaniMfcu, being in demand, •with such works as those by Sliss Alc&tt and other writers for ghls.

Nurse .Ilowell has hccii nJjpoinijotT Plnnkct Nurso lor lS'apituviu place <}f Nui'sn Donald, who has Mt with bo-r mother and sister mi a visit to England, i '

, Dr. and Mrs. SlflteT, nf KaikotU'a, left Wellington early in tfe' wcfelv. for Hotorim and Auckland, ftoiii wiiero th(?y join thuir steamri" for EngHnnl.

Mrs. Bollestou, Hair Speciattrt, hits rtiiiruc<l from Ghristchimii, wlicfe a tij-afteh. of her business ha* been ertaWishv.il, nlut' may be onnsnUcd tift' all treatuisiit-j at tliu hair arid fnce, also the , iJotm-aiHnt removal of suporfluous .hair for \vliich Mrs, Kolleston holds a diji-tenfl a«d ?ii.fcdica.t reference;. A larpi; slock of {Sn-ilelics. Transformations, altfayi on h.aii4 ' 23(i Lanibton Quay.* .-