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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2959, 23 December 1916, Page 5

Now Zealand returned soldiers who have to wait in Sydney on their way home, will be able to tell their friends that some good thing "can" come out of Australia (says an Australian paper). Mrs. Cecil Stephen, widow of a former vc it? given her beautiful home, "Ardenbrought," as a convalescent hospital till tho end of the war. As Sydney likes to show the soldiers from other States and the Dominion its most generous hospitality. Ardenbrought" is the rest place selected for Marorilanders. Homewardbound to Now Zealand after the stress of war, they are motored by our Red Oross people to this charming spot. It stands on tho heights of Point Sniper surrounded by tho lovely gardens of a wealthy suburb. Overlooking the waters of Sydney harbour, your soldiers can sit in its sheltered grounds and watch shipping pass up and down to and from Sydney.

Mrs. Ellen Cross, relict of tho late Mr. G. T. Cross, for several years Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Napier, was buried at the .Napier cemetery on Wednesday. On the death of her husband some sis years ago slio removed to "Wellington, where she died. She left a family of six grown-up daughters. _ Lady Dorothy Walpolc, who was married to Captain Hobart Mills, had her wedding ring set, by her own special desire, with a portion of tho shrapnel with which her husband was so dangerously wounded in France.