WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2599, 22 October 1915, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Continued from Page 2.) British and Belgian Relief Fund. Mrs. Rolleston ami Miss Litchfield ■havo received parcels of clothing for tho British and Belgian Belief from: Mrs. Pollen (Karori), Mrs. A. Gibbon (two parcels), Ormondville ladies, two anonymous parcels. Hospital Acknowledgments. -The matron of the Hospital desires to acknowledge the following gifts for 3 tck and wounded soldiers) Box of Eggs, Her Excellency the Couutess of Liierpool (special fund); magazines, Mesdames Beauchamp, Gallie, Ryan, and Wilsonj eggs, soup, jelly, and cake, 1 case of oranges, Soldiers' Comforts Guild; flowers, Misses Cooper and Moss; cakes owl scones, Natives' Association; cakes, Mrs. J. Dick; jelly, cako, anii case of oranges, Mrs. Salek; cakes, Mrs. Williamson; cakes and jelly, Mrs. Maurice Turrell; bandages, etc., St. John's Guild, Greymouth, per Miss M'Lean (Greymouth); 12 packs cards, [.Mrs. Justice Hosking.

The marriage took place in Cliristclmrch this week of Mr. R. W. Turton, of Dyerville, to Miss Harris, of West Belt, Ghristchurcli, daughter of the late Mr. Harris, of the firm of Messrs. Beswick and Harris, solicitors, of (Jhristchurcli. Among the passengers ' who left for Sydney yesterday evening were tha eight Volunteer Nursing Sisters who have been selected by Miss Rout for work among 'the wounded and sick in Egypt. Mrs. Knox and Miss Doris Dall left on a visit to Auckland last evening. Mr. and Mrs. C. Bayly, of Stratford, _ have been spending a few days in Wei-" lington. Mr. Bayly left for England yesterday, via Sydney, to offer his services for the Empire—if not in the fighting line, then in any capacity whatever.

Mrs. Hamilton, wife of Captain Hamilton, who went with the last Reinforcements, left for Sydney yesterday to connect with tho Medina for Egypt. Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool has consented to become patroness of the Christmas Shilling Gift organisedby the Associated Amateur Sports. Miss Austen is giving a lecture, entitled "The World's Great Need," at the No. 1 Committee Room, Town Hall, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Miss Austen was associated with Mrs. Texby Lewis, sister of Olive Schreiner, in work and lectures in South Africa, and has since given lectures in Australia. Miss Hilda Emms, "Carriconna," Takaka (Nelson), passed through Wellington on Monday. She proceeds to Tauherinikau to bid farewell to her brother Harold, who leaves with the ■ Eighths.

Miss Constanco Smith, late games mistress at the Wellington Girls' College, left for England yesterday via Sydney. It is Miss Smith's intention to offer her services to the war authorities .as a masseuse, as it seems there is a wide field of labour for such work at the'present time. Yesterday Miss Smith was farewelled by the girls at the college, who presented her with a set of photographs of their last gymnastic, display and various other souvenirs. From her fellow teachers Miss Smith was presented, with a greenstone brooch as a memento of her stay among them in New Zealand. Miss Smith is a cousin of Sir F. E. Smith, Solicitor-General, 'and now suggested as Attorney-General in the British Cabinet, and- while 1 m London Miss Smith will stay with his mother.