SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2694, 14 February 1916, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Heroic Nurses. From the current issue of the "Nursing Times": "It lias been suggested that some inquiry should be held into the Marquette disaster with a view to learning; whether tlie loss of so many nurses was inevitable. It is a fine thing for women, in tho first shock of disaster to stand aside and insist that fighting men must have tho first chance of life; but, after the first shock, when tho tragedy wore itself out through sovon or eight lone liours, and the heroic women gradually succumbed to exhaustion, was there no possibility of helping them? Every nurse will .subscribe to the rule that the fighting man is of first importance; hut those wjio look 011 at tho wastage of war realise that the nurse is as important as the man, for it is on her that his power of resurrection depends. It is she who draws him back from the jaws of death." Mrs. Algar Williams is visiting Mrs. Boyle, Christchurch. Mrs. Hall-Thompson is expected to return to Wellington from Auckland in the beginning of March. 'Mrs. AVatcrs (Boulcott Terraoe) returned to Wellington last week from a visit to Auckland and B-otorna. Mrs. Logan, wife of Colonel Logan, Administrator of Samoa, is remaining for two months iu Auckland. Mrs. Oliphant, formerly Miss Piper, Matron of the Auckland Hospital, passed through Wellington last week on her way to Christchurch. Mrs. Jackson Palmer is staying with her sister, Mrs. Arrowsmith, Mayoress of Taihape. Tho funeral took place on Friday of the late Mrs. Duncan Cameron, of Moroa, near Grey town, the eldest daughter of tho late Mr. A. Gillies, a former wellknown pioneer. No greater complimeiit could havo been paid to her sterling worth and surviving family than the thoroughly representative gathering of mourners on the occasion. Most of the daughters of the deceased lady were present, attired in the deepest mourning, also several' daughters-in-law. Among the mourners were the deceased lady's only brother, Mr. H. Gillies, of Palmerston North, and Sir Walter Buchanan, poneers. Tho wedding took place 011 Tuesday at tho Birkenhead Congregational Church, Auckland, of Mr. Philip Henry Hayward, son of Mr. Henry Hayward, of Haywards' Picturos, Ltd., "to Miss Muriel Campbell, daughter of Mr. C. E. Campbell, of Birkenhead. The Bev. H. Steele Craik performed tho ceremony. Misses A. Fowlds and New-all were bridesmaids, Mr. York Gray the best Muan, and Sir. Noel Campbell groomsman. None of the accounts in the newspapers liore of the romantic marriage of young Lord Loughborough, the heir of the Earl of Bosslyn, at Cairo, has mentioned one of the most intcrestiiig details in connection therewith, writes a London correspondent. The bride, Miss Sheila Chisholm, who thus became the future Countess of Bosslyn is, it seems, an Australian, and her brother is a member of the gallant contingent from the Land of the Kangaroo. He was at the Dardanelles, and, in order to be as near.him as possible, his pretty sister and her mother journeyed to Cairo, and there took up their residence. At Cairo she met Lord Loughborough, who oanie of age only two- years ago, and who is a son of the Earl of Bosslyn by his first wife, who was a daughter of B. Claude Grey Vyner, the millionaire sportsman, and is now the wife of Charles Jarrott, tho motorist. Lord Loughborough is an officer of the Boyal Naval Volunteer Bcserve, and was wounded at the Dardanelles in May while with the Armoured Car Division.