WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3035, 23 March 1917, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Continued from page .2.) '.The Grand Duke Michael. I The ; Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, in whaso. favour the Tsar abdicated, and who may yet. become . Tsar, is 38 years of age. . During the war he. has had commands in Galicia, having under him the Caucasian Native Division. In the recently, published diary of Count Paul Vassifi there is a "good deal about this brother of the exTsar, 'states the Christchurch "Press." IA.S a young man, so we are told, his education had been much neglected, and ho had no taste for politics or icJtrigues. -■ He was not in love with his responsibilities as the second heir to the throne, and would much have liked ■to live as a private.gentleman. When ,'quite voung W fell in love with Made-' , moiselle Kossikovsky, a lady-in-waiting to his sister, .the Grand Duchess Alexandra. The hostility of the Dowager Empress prevented a marriage between the-young people; and some time later the unhappy Michael married the divorced wife of an officer friend. Yoon afterwards the Tsarevitch's illness seemed again to open : the question .of the succession. to the throne, and every means was .tried to induce the Grand Duke to divorce his wife,; but this he, refused to do. ' ■ _ 'His brother, the Tsar,, then took a step which, it is said, filled Russia, ■with astonishment and even dismay,.: • .He issued a ukase, depriving his brother of the functions of regent in .the event, of .the iTsarevitch sucoeedin'g. :to v the throne as a minor. , 'In addition he appointed himself his brother's .guardian; and sequestrated his estates.. • This act was reprobated as illegal; and ,a reversion to .the habits of an ancient; • despotism. ;-Michael; retired, with his wife to Cannes , and Ahere,..lived as a' •private gentleman, under -the'name of j\t. Brassov. on the remains of his fortune.-' v-:' ;r . ' Mb. Holland, secretary of the Auckland branch o£ the : Victoria ' League,! 'loft early this week on': a' visit to "Wel'lington. '• " '■ -

"Bishopscourse," in Mulgrave Street,'the residence of the Bishop of Wellington, which for some years has been leased, as a boardinghouse, is about to be reticcupied by Bishop Sprott, who will take up his residence there in a few months. Mrs. L. Cuff (Napier) and her two daughters are visiting Wellington. A novel article of Maori manufacture is to be sold at a Native gathering at Waikanae on Easter Monday. Mrs.- T. Parata, assisted by Mrs. Davies has made a fine. Union Jack or lnoe bark (froin the Native ribbonwood or whauwhi tree): It measures 3ft. by 2ft.,.and is entirely handmade, and worked in colours. '. Mrs.' A. Crawford, lion" secretary of the Mayoress' Countess of Liverpool Fund Committee, acknowledges the receipt <jf the! sum of £20 4s. for trench comforts, for the soldiers at the front from the Red. Cross Guild, Rakanui, per Miss.Gladys Wood, hon. secretary. Aunt Susan, the' last of the courageous women who helped to people Pitcairn Island', died recently. She died at Norfolk Island, where she landed with the other descendants, of . the Bounty mutineers 61 years ago. On Monday at St. Gary's Convent, Ponsonby (Auckland), Sister M. Aidaij. O'Connor (Wexford), Sister M. Bor- . rowes Halpin '(Drogheda), and Sister M. Carice (Wexford) were admitted as professed members, having taken their vows, and Miss Alice Clowry, called in religion Sister M. Cecilia, Bagenalstown, and Miss Mary Flanagan (Sister M. Emanuel), King's County, Ireland, received tie) habit and white veil of the Order of Mercy. The Right Rev. Monsignor Mahoney presided, .and celebrated. Mass in the sisters'' private chapel. Ladies! Take an early opportunity of. seeing . oiir beautiful Silk Scarves' in the daintiest shades imaginable. Price's Store,- 54-56. Willis Street—Advt. For prey and faded hair use Donnelly's Grey Hair Tonic, 3s. 6d. Donnelly", 65, Vivian Street.—Advt. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.*