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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2392, 23 February 1915, Page 2

Mrs. C. Harbottle- (Melbourne) is visiting her parents, tho' Hon. G. H-. Mills, and Mrs.. Mills.

Miss Beatrice Day, the leading actress of the Plimmer-Hall Patriotic Comedy Company, will arrive in Wellington, from Sydney to-day. .Miss Day is a great patriot., She inaugurated a "Copper Fund" in Melbourne for patriotic ends, and no one was permitted to. contribute coins other than tho humble penny. By this means over £400 was , raised. She- has also taken a very , active part in recruiting for the Expeditionary Force. Now she has given up her work in connection with the. Melbourne Repertory Theatre to help Messrs. Harry Plimmer and Winter Hall in tho effort thoy intend to make to raise funds for tho Now Zealand Patriotic Fund throughout the country. The meeting which was held yesterday afternoon of the Girls' Brancli of the Victoria League at Mrs. Shirtcliffe's residence was very successful in Tegard to its object, the large attendance of •members seconding-with' enthusiasm the suggestion of sewing for the Belgian refugees. Miss Estelle Beere. commences her children's dancing classes on Saturday next, March 6, at the studio, 76 Hill Street.- By request she is forming small evening olasses for ladies in solo dancing. Mrs. W. F. Massey acknowledges a parcel of books'-and" magazines'from Mr. Justice Hosking for the Camp Libary at Trentham. A parcel of hooks from an anonymous donor was received at The Dominion Office on Saturday for tho samo object. On Sunday evening Miss Ethel Dane and Mr. Tom Shelford, of "The Glad Eye" Company, were entertained- at a dinner party at the residence of Mr. Kwei, the Chinese Consul. Among those invited to meet' Miss Dane and Mr'. Shelford were Mr. and Mrs. Herdman, Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, Miss Dora Shirtclili'e, Miss Bloonifield,. and . Miss Doris Dall. '