SOCIAL & PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2448, 29 April 1915, Page 2

SOCIAL & PERSONAL

Wedding at the Sacred Heart Church. lhe marriage took place yesterday in the Sacred Heart Church, Hill Street, oi Miss Jiiva Gastjuoine, eldest claughter of the late l\lr. \V. C. Gasquoine, General llanager of the State Coal Mines Department, to Mr. D. Campbell, son of* Air, J. Campbell, of Newtown. Nuptial Mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father lunibell, S.M., uncle of the bride, assisted by the Very Rev. Dean Regnault, k.M., Adm. Miss Francis Gasquoine was bridesmaid, and Mr. Leslie Campbell best man. The bride was given away by her brother, Lieutenant C. J. Gasquoine. Among the numerous presents was a charming gift from the Sisters of St. _ Mary's Convent, of which the bride is an ex-pupil, and a beautiful collection of flowers from the Sisters at the Lower Hutt Convent. The honeymoon is"to be spent at Auckland.

Wedding in Kaikoura. St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Kaikoura, was crowded oil 'Wednesday, April 21, when Miss Elizabeth Dick (Bessie) M'Lauchlan, youngest daughter of Mrs. A. M'Lauchlan, Kaikoura, was married to Mr. Freeborn John Douglas Parsons, eldest soil of Mr. and Mrs. Freeborn Parsons, Benniore. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr. J. C. M'Lauchlan, wore a gown of ivory satin charmeuse with a tunic of Brussels lace and a veil fastened with orange blossoms. She carried a beautiful shower bouquet of white roses and maiden-hair i'ern. Miss V. M'Farlane, of Waverley, was bridesmaid, and wore a frock of vieux rose crepe de chine and black velvet hat with a pink rose. She carried a bouauet of wine-coloured cactus dahlias and maiden-hair fern. Miss Richardson played the Wedding March as the bride and bridegroom left the church, the ceremony having been performed by the Rev. W. M'Ara. A number of friends and relatives were afterwards entertained at the wedding breakfast, hold at the residence of the bride's mother, and various toasts w r ere honoured. i The bridegroom's present to brHe was a gold bracelet set with rubies, and to the bridesmaid was giyen ? gold bracelet spt with pearls and turquoises. The bridegroom received from the bride a gold albert. Later in the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Parsons left for the south by motor. A large number of friends were again entertained in the evening, and a very pleasant time was spent.

Wedding at Tawa Flat. The wedding took place at "Bellfields," Tawa Flat, yesterday, of Miss Martha Ryan, daughter of Mr. Dennis Ryan, to Mr. William Giiiy, soil of Mrs. Florence, of Pahautamii. The Rev. Father Lane, of Lower Hutt, performed the coremony. The bride woro a pretty frock of hand-embroidered white voile over silk, with a black velvet hat trimmed with a nattier blue feather and small posies of flowers. She carried a bouquet of white roses, and also wore lier gift from the bridegroom of a pendant pf pearls and aquamarines. _ -Yiss Olive Fox, of Wellington, and little Miss Mattio Iremonger were bridesmaids. The former woro a frook of wjiito embroidered crystal voile over silk and a pretty nattier blue tagel hat trimmed with cerise posies and a blue feather. Her gift from the bridegroom was a cable bangk The little girl was in a frock of white spotted muslin trimmed H'it Valenciennes lace, finished with a pink satin sash and a white satin mob cap. Her gift from the bridegroom was a small gold watch. Bot'h carried pretty pink bouquets. The bride travelled in a dark grey costume and a white velours hat, and she also wore a set of furs, the gift of the bridegroom. They left by motor later m the day for their future home in Toko, Taranaki.

Red Cross Medal Handicap, The first Red Cross Medal Handicap was played by the members of the Wellington Ladies' Golf Club at Heretaunga on Wednesday, and was won by Miss Litchfield (score, 69 not) Tile best scores were:—Miss Litchfield, 109 —'10, 69; Mrs. Marchbanks, 95—22, 73; Mrs. R. A. Holmes, 87—13, 74; Miss lv.veu, 95 —21, 74. There were many entries for this competition, with the result of £3 to swell tho Red Cross funds.

A Press Association telegram from Sydney states that on April 28 (yesterday) the marriage took place of Miss Gwendolin Nicklin, daughter of Mr. C. J. Nicklin, of Wellington, to Lieutenant G. P. Meredith, of Tasmania. The wedding was a military one.

A farewell concert to Miss Flora Shaw, who has takeji an active part in providing fnusioal entertainment for the men in camp at Trent-ham, will be given at St. John's Schoolroom this evening. The following will contribute to the programme:—Misses Rita M'Gee, Eileen Aitcheson-, Violet Johnson, Mavis King, Doris Symes, Marjorie Jones, Audrey Howell, Hazel Hardwick, Mesdames Emily Martin and Morris, Messrs. Alfred Boothman and J. Simpson, and Masters Claude Harris and Winstone M'Cartby.

The engagement is announced of Mr. Lawrence loke Scudamore, son of the Rev. H. Toke Scudamore, Studham Vicarage, Bedfordshire (England), to Miss Cicely Da vies, daughter of Mrs. Davies, Garden Road, Wellington, and of the jate Mr. Thomas Davies, of Somerset House, London and- Epsom, England.

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With the French Flag Nursing Corps. The many friends of Mrs. Holgate in Wellington and elsewhere will be interested to hear that she has been nursing in a military hospital in Lesieux, in France. Writing to a friend in Wellington, she describes her surroundings and gives an account of various things that befell her since she arrived in England.

"It is so satisfactory to-find myself here" (Lesieux), she writes. "If one joined the Territorials after having arrived in England as late as 1 did there would have been little chance of being Bent abroad, so as I wished to get to France and Belgium it was wise to get under tho French Flag Nursing Corps. As you know, it was my intention to go to Belgium, but the High Commissioner put me into communication with the War Office, and 1 found that plan had to be abandoned. I then applied to come wider tho French Flag Nursing Corps, and alter passing the doctor had to interview three ladies, eacli one being interviewed twice. However, that passed satisfactorily. We had to get our own passports, as far as the English part was concerned, and then the French Government finished them for us. We are under the French Government, and they have been very good to us on the whole. The salary is very little, and the four pounds for expenses is less than the English Government allows, but they were very good in making things as comfortable as possible in the way of travelling, To my mind that is worth a good deal of money, and it was fairly expensive bringing us over." "Mrs. Bedford Fenwick, Lady Barclay, and Mrs. Murray were most kind to our unit.\ The ward I am in has SO bods, but it is about half full now (March), and nearly ali convalescents. The hospital is really a temporary military hospital, situated on a hi'll and cqnunanding an excellent view of a splendid apple district. The manufacture 1 of cider and a* kind of brandy made from apples is the principal industry of the district. Lesieux seoms to be a very old town, and parts of it aro picturesque, some of the bits of marble carving being really beautiful. The honpital is part of a school adopted for the present purposes, but I think as the war goes c.n that all the hospitals will be mov-ed nearer the l'rqnt. It is fairly well equipped, the nurses who came two months ago having worked well to make it as satisfactory as possible. r "I hear that Sisters Lind nnd Hitchcock, formerly of the Wellington Hospital, aro at Bercqites. They have been moved from Bordeaux."

An Offer to Homo Dressmakers. "Everylady's Journal" for April begins a number of new aud> striking features. For example, a complete range of now patterns suitable for all ages from childhood to grandmotherhood is displayed in a series of pages, with an offer to supply accurate paper patterns for these designs. The Australian cut patterns shown in the current issue are but a sample of the 250 designs issued by this popular woman's magazine in its new uutumn pattern oata'ogue. The editor offers to send this catalogue of 250 pattern designs free of charge to any reader who uses the coupon given in the current issue of "E erylady's Journal." But "Everykdy'B Journal" is much more than a fashion journal. In the ourrent issue t-'here is a new serial story by one of the best living storywriters—appropriately enough, a woman. We find some more opinions of notable people on the question of whether bachelors should be taxed, and are assured that this is np longer a question for smoke-nights and afternoon-tea parties, but it is a very serious matter to be debated as soon as Parliament opens.

Mrs. Pankhurst as a Recruiter. At a London music-hall I heard Mrs. Pankhurst speak in aid of recruiting, states the London correspondent of tho Sydney "Telegraph." It was a queer interlude in the usual noisy, vulgar music-hall programme when the quiet, gentle, becomingly-gowned lady appeared. She has a soft voice, which can be heard everywhere, without being raised a unit. I was much interested in her reception, because the audience, was mainly composed of men. They gave her complete attention, and many "hear, hears." One dissentient voice was quickly hushed down. Referring to the suffering entailed by tho war, she said that, even taking into consideration tho nursing of those men who had borne worse than death ihrough maiming, she thought (and smilingly remarked that she could speak as an expert, being herself a fighting woman), that the women who could only wait and endure had suffered more than tho men, and tliis statement drew a round of masculine applause, good to hear.

The frocks which were worn by Gobette (Miss Ethel Dane) in "Who's the Lady?" played for the- first time in the Grand Opera House last evening, were very characteristic.' Gobette's first appearance was in a ooquettish frock of black and w'hite silk, the bodice made with a tunio that ended in long points in the front, and was caught up behind with a cleverly knotted effect. A cerise sash gave just the right effect of colour and a white hat trimmed with upstanding black osprey plumes completed this toilette. The tea-gown was an extremely pretty creation of soft transparent cream materials worn over an underskirt of palest pink crepe de chine, and caught together in the front with a wreath of pink roses. The sleeves were made with wings and the bodice was of soft lace and net. Another frock was of black ninon, the bodice being made over white silk, wit'h a deep collar embroidered in tones of green blues and reds. The hat was a cqnfection of black tulle, ospreys and a pink rose. Very pretty was the frock worn in the last act, the _ whole effect being somewhat early Victorian, only without the crinoline. It was of whito transparent material, with a loose bodice of pale blue satin caught in loosely with a sash and worn over a threo-fiounced skirt, with tiny clusters of pink roses. A knot of violets was worn on the corsage. The white straw hat, suggestive of early Victorian days, was trimmed with blue ribbon, a cluster of pink flowers at the back adding a contrasting note. Miss St. Clair's tango-coloured satin frock was very striking, and on Miss Dane was irresistibly amusing.

Miss Cherrett, of the Girls' College, Wanganui, has returned from a year's holiday in England, and is at present the guest of Mrs. Booth, Carrington House, Carterton. She will resume her duties at college next term.

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