Vice-Regal.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2301, 7 November 1914, Page 2

Vice-Regal.

Their Excellencies the Governor and Lady, Liverpool will be amongst the visitors to Uhristohurch next week, and will attend the show at Addington on Friday (People's Day). Miss M. Hanmer, who hae been staying with ■ her sistor, Mrs. Wilder, Hawlce's Bay, has returned to Christchiirub. Mrs. T. H. Lowry (Hawke's Bay) is at present staying in Ohristohurch. , Mrs. Neleon Jones (Christchuroh) ia the guest of Mm. Pattlo Izett (Wanganui). V The engagement is announced of Miss Dorothy K. Beauohauip, third daughter of Mr. 8..' Beauchamp, Carlton, Wanganui, to Mr. G. I. Bridge, of Wanganui. Preparations are now being made by the Young Women's Christian Association for the week of prayer which will be observed by all Y'.W.C.A.'s in every country from November Bto 14. The first meeting, which will take place tomorrow afternoon at 4.15 o'clock, will be addressed by Mrs. M'Clay. All young women will be most welcome at this meeting and at tho tea and social hour There will also be evening meetings on Thursday and Saturday, The former will bo addressed by Miss M'Lean, M.A. On the intermediate days, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, at 5.15 p.m., prayer circles will meet, with a different leader each day. At the Y.W.G.A. Club room there will be an entertainment to-night in aid of the British and Belgian Belief' Fund. An amusing dialogue in costume, ontitled "Mechanical Jane," will be rendered by the Elocution Class; ' Songs will be sung with ohoruses in , which the audience will be asked to take part.

St. Mark's decorating cemmittee are giving an entertainment in St. Mark's Schoolroom on' Monday ,evening. An attractive programme has'been arranged and during the intervals sweets will be sold. ' V - The .matron of the Hospital desires to acknowledge tlie following:—Flowers: Mrs. Bews (Upper Hutt), Endeavour Society (Donald M'Lean Street}, Wellington Girls' College, Mrs. Press (Constable Street), St. Anne's Sunday School (Northland), Mrs. Pitts. This year the Wellington' Girls' College, instead of having the usual sports day for which invitations are issued to parents of the girls and to friends, intend having, on November 25, a grand fete, to which admission is to be charged. The proceeds are to be devotocl to the British and Belgian Relief Fluid. The attractions are to be many and , varied. An important part will be the sports events. Then there are to bb morris dances by Miss Suche's drill pupils, and other dances and marches by pupils of Miss Borlase and Miss Beere. A very attractive item .will be the decorated teams of girls who" are to Itcrado tho grounds at certain times. Various stalls, such as flower, produce, sweets, and variety stalls, will be erected outside in the grounds, and tho Central Hall of the college is to be turned into an afternoon tea room. In order to devote more to the fund the girls have offered to forgo their usual sports prizes; instead they will receive printed certificates. To add still further to tho fund a concert is to be given at the college on November 28, tho Saturday evening after the fete.

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Countess.of Liverpool Fund. Sifts acknowledged by tho Mayoress's Committee of the Countess of Liverpool Fund to date aro as follow:—No name, Huinga, 1 cap, 1 scarf: Mrs. Bodley, Fordell, 2 caps, knitted by a lady of 80 years of age; Mrs. and Miss Vickers, 4 knitted children's bonnets; no name, parcel of clothing; Mrs. W. Ferguson, 2 balaclavas; Mrs. W. S. Reid, 1 cap, 1 pair mittens, and clothing; Miss Lucas, parcel for British and Belgian Fund; Mrs. Pomare, Mrs. PrendergastKnight, Mrs. B. M. Wilson, Mrs. Dick, Mrs.\ Best, 111 "housewives" made by these- ladies from material given by Mrs. Pomaro; "A Sympathiser," parcel of clothes for Belgian poor; per Mrs. 11. C. Kirk, Petone, box of .clothing; Miss Duncan, 4 pairs socks; Mrs. Jas. Currje and Miss Katie Nicholson, Koatanui, Kiii Iwi, Wanganui, 2 vests for Belgian Fund, 3 pairs socks. This list, of course, includes' the gifts for the British and Belgian Relief Fund. Several parcels wore made up for tho Maori Contingent yesterday. An Oversea Nurse at the Front. It is always a matter of great interest to Australasians to hear of one of their 1 countrymen or countrywomen who have distinguished themselves in . whatever field' they have chosen for their life's work, more particularly when thoir honours have been gained on the, other side of the world. In the course of the war that is raging.in Europe many reputations will bo made—and perhaps unmade—and while we do not as yet hear so very much about the work that is being done by the nurses at tho front, we know that are not one whit behind the soldiers in courage and devotion to duty. Miss M'Carthy, the Principal Matron at the War Office, is an Australian, and.is tho daughter of tho late W. F. M'Ca.rthy, a well-known solicitor of Sydney, and sister of a doctor who is practising in New Zealand. At tho timo of the outbreak of the South African War, Miss M'Carthy was in chargo of the big women's ward in the London Hospital, and had attracted the attention of the then Princess of Wales (now the Dowager Queen Alexandra). It will be remembered that Sir Frederick Treves volunteered to go out to South Africa; and many of the nurses followed suit. It wae as a member of the Princess of Wales's own orfanieation of nurses (Queen Alexandra's mperial Military Nursing Service) that Miss M'Carthy went to the front. There she fell a victim to tj'phoid, hut recovered and went on with her nursing. On her return to England 6he was appointed-to Netley Hospital.- Shortly afterwards, the War Offi(» appointed a commission of three to reorganise the whole of the Army Nursing Service, and Miss M'Carthy wa3 one of tlie three. Her next appointment was as principal matron at the War Office, where hor duties were purely administrative, and following that she was appointed matron-in-chicf, ■ her appointment to date from September 28 of tins year. However, tho European War breaking out, it was hardly likely that the change would take instant effect, and Miss M'Carthy went with the troops to the Continent, on the staff and attached to the advance baee of tho Army Headquarters. Since then very little of her movemonts have Teached New Zealand, naturally. The personnel of thu Nursing Board of the Q.A.1.M.N.5., it may be interesting to note, is composed of the following: — President, Queen Alexandra; vice-presi-dent, the Countess Roberts, 0.1., R.R.C.; chairman, the Director-Gon-eral, Army Medical Service; members of the Advisory ■ Board, Colonel Macpherson (teinp. Brigadier-General), W.G., C.M.G., M.8., (Dep. Dir. Gen. Army Medical Service), Major Sir J. B. Bradford, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., M.D.; matron-in-chief, Q.A.1.M.N.5., Miss Becher, R.R.C.; matrons of civil hospitals, Miss R. Oox-Davies, Mjss L. V. Haughtbn; members nominated by Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, the Countess of Airlie, and Viscountess S. G. Knutsford; secretary, Miss E. M. M'Carthy, R,.R.C.'; principal matron, Q.A.I.M.N.S. Since Hhen, however, came Miss M'Carthy's later appoint; ment. . -~n ~_ It is evident that. Miss M'Carthy harks back to her maternal grandfather iii the direction that her abilities have taken as he wae a noted surgeon who went through the CarlistWar in Spam, attached to tlie staff of Sir Henry Lacy-Evans, and who received several decorations from Queen Isabella, tor the services he had; rendered her. Leaving for the south last evening were Mr. Scott, M.P., and Mrs. Scott, and Mr. Sidey, M.P., and Mrs. Sidey Mr. Coates, M.P., and Mrs. Coatee left for Auckland on Thursday, as also did Miss Bradney.

The monthly meeting of the W.O.T.TJ. was held-on Thursday afternoon: Mrs. Evans, M.A., presided and there was a eood attendance of members and friends Mrs. Glover, of the Salvation 4.rmv, addressed the meeting. She spoke of the evils of the liquor traffic, and urged the women, to rise and be wide awake to their responsibilities to their Mow creatures, and weep the Dominion free of the evil. A large number of p«!3 of clothing for the poor in England were brought to the union by children of the Newtown School. Mrs. and Miss Gear are visiting Christahurcli. Mrs. Holmes Warren, Miss Holmes Warren, and Miss Martin, all of Wairarapa, are staying at j Balmoral. So also are Mrs. Harvey and Mr S . Pearson, of' Dannevirke.

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