SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2287, 22 October 1914, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wedding at Tlmaru. On Saturday, October 10, at St. Mary's Church, Timaru; the wedding took place of Sergeant-Major Edmonds, who is at present serving with the Second (5.0.) Regiment, andMissNellie Beatrice Swain, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Swain, of Staffordshire, England. The wedding was a very quiet one, tho Ven. Arclideacon Jacob being tho officiating clergyman. The bride was given away by h'er brother, Mr. Alex. Swain. Wanganul Notes. ■ The Wanganui branoh of the Women's Political Reform League hold a most successful meeting on Monday, when something over fifty members attended. Mrs. D. G. Poison (president) occupied; the chair. Mr. George Cunningham addressed the meeting on "Why wo Should Siipport the Massey Governnient," and. gave a very instructive and interesting talk. The league is busy forming sub-committees' to work in tho interest of their candidate,. Mr. Pirani, who cbmmenoes his electioneering campaign very shortly, when tho members intend to prove their worth as an organising party in tho interest of the Massoy Government. "Tha Man of Wrath." General von Arnim is the German military commander at Brussels. _ He is no stranger to English readers, for who among iis but has enjoyed tliat delightful book, "Elizabeth and Her German Garden," onco ascribed to Princess ,Henry of Pless, but now known to be the work of the Countos's von Arnim, telling -us from her garden on the shores of the Baltic of her husband, the "Man of Wrath." In the London Hospitals. Almost, each day the King and Queen have visited different hospitals where their brave soldiers lie, and have given the utmost delight by their kindly sympathy, and affectionate interest (states a writer in the "Queen"). Laughter and tears are near together always,in these days, and. they met in curious fashion as "the King entered one ward of the London Hospital. For here a party of wounded'soldiors ("otherwise quite well,", as they explain it) had begged to help in some way, and. were_ engaged with brooms and mops" in cleaning tho ward when the King appeared in the doorway. In-! stinctivoly tho brooms, etc., were raised in brisk salute. All unconscious of tho incongruity, and almost at once, King and soldiers were laughing heartily together, while the Queon with the matron and nurses hurried up to join in the mirth. _ ■ The London Hospital was again the setting of An interesting littlo scone when Lord Kitchener paid'~a surprise visit. Oddly enough, only that morning many of the inen had been speaking of tho delight it would givo them to really see him, and when . the ward eieter simply announced "Lord Kitchener" at ■the ward entranco it seemed as though some subtlo moasago' had flown- from them to him. It was a scene of strango significance as the men rose —or endeavoured to do so I —in quick salute, following with eager eyes' the tall, alert figure as the War Minister walked quickly from bod to bed, speaking a few low words to each man, or drawing with brief questions from a little group details ,of their experience, acknowledging answers by the characteristic jerk of the head which' those who' have served with him. know, so v well- in place' of words.■ "Make baste and get well: we shallwant you again," was his abjuration to' many, and all. were left singularly cheered and heartened by his visit. » ' Mrs..: Johnston (Highden) and "Mrs. Baldwin, ;who have been visiting Australia, returned oh Tuesday by the Moerafei. ■ . ,; . Mrs. Miles has : visiting 'Mrs. Cockburn. Hood,: "Glendonald," Masterton.' i ''.■.' ■ V'\:-.•.'•. ' •; Miss W, B. Shearer (Dunodin); who has been studying music in Leipzig for i some time past, was fortunate enough to leave Germany the week before the war broko "out. .She had come to London on a. holiday. .'' Miss Maclcerras, returned on Tuesday by the Moeraki from a visit to Australia. Mrs.- H. Loughnan (Ghristchurcb) is yteitirig Wellington. Mrs. Lowry (Hawke's Bay) has turned from a viiit'to Sydney. Mrs. Louis Blundell and Mrs. Noel Nelson left for the south last evening. Dr. and Mrs. Fifohett nave returned* from Auckland and have taken up their residence at Day's Bay for the summer. Mrs. M. InjiisJones (Tβ Kuiti) is visiting TMrs. Studholme, Timaru. ; . Miss Reynolds (Dunedin), who is at present visiting England, and who is a member of the Ladies' Executive Committee of the New Zealand Association War Contingent, London; is, according to recent advice,, taking a course of training at St. Thomas's Hospital. The "Eastern Province Herald" (Cape of Good "Hope, South, -Africa) reports that on August 22 Miss Isabel Finnerty, well known in Otago and in Southland, entered the Noviciate House of St. Dominic's Priory, at Port Elizabeth. His Lordship the'-Bishop (the Right Rev. Dr. Mac Sherry) officiated, and Dr. MacCarthy, of Capo Town, delivered the sermon. • Miss Finnerty (in religion Sister Mary Felicitas, 0.5.D.) was a member of the Dunedin Roman Ca-fliolio diocese, and is a daughter of* Mr. and Mrs. L. Finnerty, of Inyercnrgill. She attended"tho Convent School at her native town, and spent six years as a residont student at Dunedin St. Dominic's Ladies' College, where she'was dux in 1910. In 1011 Sister. Fe.licitas' studied for the teaching profession at Osimanj, and sho left New Zealand . for Cape •Colony, and on arriving at Durban , , in June, 1912,' she joined the staff, of the Rosary Convent School. ■ She--was the first New Zealander to eritor .the convent at the Cape. 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the Gifts of the Poor. A striking instanco of tbo self-sacri-fice and patriotism which are being exercised by people in Great Britain, no matter how poor their circumstances, is given by a lady writing i'roin England lately to a friend in Wellington. Tho Btory goes that a collection was being made in a small fishing town in the north of Scotland for tho Prince of . Wales's Fund, and as the fishermen could only go out (by order of the Admiralty) in daylight, and only in specified places, not anywhere near their best ii'shing grounds, it may be imagined that their worldly "wealth was very small indeed. The lady who was collecting started out with quits a modestsized Dag, but before she had done she had to have recourse to a garden basket to receivo the contributions, which by the time she had finished amounted to £117—all in pennies. Mrs. Maurice Dennistqn ie visiting Mrs. Denniston, Christchurch. . Mr. and Mis. James'Mitchell (Christchuroli) arrived in Auckland on Monday by the Maiura from a visit to Sydney. A meeting of the Wellington Women's Branoh of the New Zealand Political Reform League is to be held this evening. Mrs. J. F. Adams, of Mulgrave Street, received information yesterday that her daughter, Florence, who is at Brussels, is perfectly safo. ' The wedding took place in St. Paul's , Church, Napier, on Tuesday of Mrs. Margarot E. Hampton, daughter of Mr. John Warren, of Grisborno, to Mr. Kenneth 0. Wilson, of Tahunga, Poverty Bay, youngest son of the late Dr. John Wilson,-'Wanlockhead, Dumfries, Scotland. ■' A large audience attended the Navy League entertainment which was hold in the Town Hall last evening, and the Belgian and War Relief Funds should benefit largely. Mrs. W. F_. Massey, Mrs. 'Lawrence Taylor, and Miss Massey were among those who were present; also tho Mayoress, Mrs. J. P. Luke. Mr. and Miss N. Waterhouse, of Pakowhai (Hawke's Bay), have returned from a visit to Greymouth and Wellington. •■ <#■ . . • ' The first of a series of lectures was given by MiSs Una Carter in the Gas Company's lecture 'room, Courtenay Place, yesterday afternoon, and was very largely attended, the overflow, of interested students of cookery extending into tho passage outside the door of tho lecture room. Miss Carter gave a dentanstration of tho cooking of a fiveoourso dinner, which included soup, fish, a joint arid vegetables, a savoury and a sweet. Miss Carter' is well known in Wellingtpn as an excellent lecturer and demonstrator, and in addition she gavo some useful hints as to tho Regulating of the gas when cooking with a gas cooker. ■' '• ." For Face Massajjo, Shampooing, all Hnir Treatments, and Electrolysis, lira. Rollcston's is recommended. Spacious Private Booms, Qualified Assistants, and .Personal .Attention. Switches'and Transformations of every shade a speciality.. Hair ■guaranteed to keep .its. colour. ■; 250 Lambton Quay.* . . ' .