SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2267, 29 September 1914, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

, Among' the guests staying at Balmoral are Miss Hordcastle (Wanganni) Miss Turner (Gisborne), Mrs. Lon" (Foilding), and Miss OiFarrell (Otaki)" Mrs. Wesley Turton, who has been staying witli Mra. Otterson, left for Te lauti on Sunday. Miss Janie Petrie, the young Wellington elocutionist, has just completed a very successful tour of Gisborne and Palmerston North, in both towns winning the elocutionary ohampioiiship. At Gisborne she secured no fewer than nine first-olass awards. Tlilis ■ makes tlio third championship Miss Petrio has won this year. She is now visiting her sister, Mrs. W. Parker, of Masterton. Mrs.. P. Dransfield (Masterton) had returned from a, visit to Hawkojs Bay. A cablegram was received by Mrs. Moorhoiise yesterday announcing tlio safe arrival at Hobart of Dr. and Mrs. Adams and Miss Adams, • who arts returning to New Zealand by: the Ruabine, after a six-years' visit to Great Britain. They will bo leaving to-day for Wellington, and are due to arrive on Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Ward (Christchurch) are visiting Wellington. The Hon. George Fowlds and Mis 3 Fowlds arrived in Auckland on Friday on their return from a visit to Great Britain. Mrs. David Jebson, another old Canterbury pilgrim, died at'her son's farm, Westerfield, on Wednesday last. Mrs. Jebson arrived from England by the Charlotto Jane on December 16. 1850. Mrs. Jebson,was a daughter of the late Captain J. S. Hooper, R.N., and sister-in-law of the late James Temple Fisher, Postmaster-General in Sir George Grey's Cabinet. She leaves a son and two daughters. One of them is Mrs. Thos Payne, of Hororata.

The ladies' championship of the Waiwotu Golf Club was won by Miss A. Gaynor. The play-off on Saturday is ns l follows: —Semi-finals: Miss Hishon defeated Miss E. Gaynor, 1 up; Miss A. Gaynor defeated Miss M. Gaynor, 4 up and 2. Finals: Miss A. Gaynor defeated Miss Hishon, 7 up and 6. At tho meeting which was held by the W.C.T.TJ. last evening in honour of the obtaining of the franchise for women twenty-ono years <igo, Lady. Stout,' in the coui'se of her address, spoko of rill that the great' Women Suffrace Societies were doing to help the poor children of Great Britain through the appalling sufferings that would fall upon them through war, and .urged' that everyone present at the meetiii'* should do something to mitigate their miseries. Warm clothing would be so greatly appreciated, and it would be an easy matter for every women and girl to make even one garment and to got their friends to do so also. No one in New Zealand could faintly realise what suffering and indescribable want would be entailed upon people who, even in the best of times, only Jived upon the brink of starvation. . For Face Massajce, Shampooing:, all Hair Treatments, and Electrolysis, Sirs. Bolleston's is recommended. Spacious Private Rooms, Qualified Assistants, and Personal Attention. Switches and Transformations of every shade a speciality. Hair guaranteed to keep its colour, 256 lambton Quay.* ...■.•■