SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 100, 21 January 1918, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

A Patriotio Lady. The death took place in Auckland on Friday of Mrs. Alary Ann Wick, who was well known in the Auckland, Thames, and Waihi districts, and conspicuous in late years for her work for war .sufferers. From the beginninn; of the war she devoted the proceeds of the gardon on her property at Takapuna to tl]e Belgian Relief Fund, and latterly to the Red Cross organisation. It was lately intimated to her that in recognition of her services to the Belgian cause she had been recommemlod to tho Belgian authorities for appointment to ths Queen Elizabeth Order instituted by Queen Elizabeth for conferment upon women throughout the world who have distinguished themselves in working for that suffering nation. Mrs. Wick is survived by three children of her former marriage—Mra. Walter Brodie, wife of the manager of the Thames branch of the Bank of Now Zealand; Mr. George Hicks, of Chamberlain Avenue, Mount Eden; and Mr. John Moore, now serving with the Australian Army at ths front,-a.nd who has been twine mentioned in dispatches hy Sir Douglas Haig, and awarded the D.C.M.

Mrs. Rishworth (Mastertqn) will arrive in Wellington early this week on her way to Titahi Bay.

Mrs. , J. Myers and the Misses Myers are visiting Rotorua.

Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Firth have returned from their visit to Rotorua.

Mrs. Gifford Marshall (Wau'anui) is visiting Christchurch.

Dr. JMeanor Baker. (Auckland) is at present visiting Christchurch.

Mrs. Fitzgerald (Feilding) and her daughters are staying in Christchurch,

The meeting of the Wellington Red Cross Shop Committee, which was to have been held to-day, has been postponed until further notice. It has been arranged to open the shop on February 15, with a big country day, organised by Mrs. Elder, of Waikanae, and on the next Friday (February 22) the Terraces will lie in charge. Both days promise to be of material benefit to the Red Cross funds, as a t,reat many promises of help have been, received, as well as great preparations having been made in regard to these days.

Mesdames W. J. Martin, W. E. Biclwi'.l, and G. Pain were the hostessus on tco occasion of the last wei>lri' dance in the Wairarapa Adzrc dub, when, a largo number of soldiers and their friends assembled. The Military Band provided the musio for the pioRrarmi'C, whilst Mesdames Dawson and Oliver,. Miss Toogood, and Sergeant Potter played extras. Mr. F. 13]abunt was M.C.

The marriage took place at St. Hilda's Anglican Church, Tsland Boy, of Miss Elsie Myers, eldest ilaugnter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Myers, of Seine Strtu, Island' Bay, to Mr. S. Chesterfield, of Sprinfield, Canterbury. The Rev. J. G. Castle, performed the coren.oi;y. Miss Stella Myers -<'as bridesmaid, and Mr. T. Nimmo, D.C.M., was best man. A reception was subsequently held at- the residence of the' bride's parents, and later Mr. and Mrs Chesterfield left for the north.

The marriage took placo recently at Kakiiiiui, Otago, of Corporal H. V. Eowe, second son of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Eowe, of Christchurch, to Hiss Madeline Wilson, daughter of Mrs. Wilson, of Kakanui, and grand-daugh-ter of lire late Dr. Williams, of Oiimrru. The Ven. Archdeacon J. Delacourt H'lssell, of Oamaru, . purfo.med the-cutmoiiy. Miss P. Wilson atted";,.! her sister, and the test man was Mr. Eric A. Rowe. Of local intereft is the fact that both the 1 ridegroom and his best man, as 'veil as both of their parents, were graduites of College, the latter enjoying the "distinction of having been the first pair of graduates to do married in New Zealand.

A pioneer of woman's journalism in Australia has just died, Mrs. Thomas Carrington, the well-known "Queen Bee" of the "Australasian." Mrs. Carrington conducted the social section of that journal with marked ability for nearly thirty years, finally laying down her pen on January 3, after a. long illness. She was a bright and instructive writer, her style being good and her knowledge sound. Her place oh the "Australasian" is being taken by her elder daughter, Miss Carrington, who has for some years been as-. Bisting her mother, and who. for several months past has done virtually the whole of the work. She writes under the pen name of "Pandora."

Miss Frances B. Lysnar, of Auckland, has come to England (writes the London correspondent of the Christchurch "Press" under dato of November 27) j partly to arrange for a second edition of her hook, "New Zealand, the Dear Old Maori Land." Unfortunately the box containing the MS. and a number of letters was stolen out of her trunk at New York or Bordeaux. This will cause some delay in the publication.

At Trentham Race 6. The weather on Saturday (race day) was )!oJ sucli as to induce women to wear summer attire, and there were not perhaps quite so many present ;is there lvoultl have been had the day been fine. As it was, coats and skirts were thii general wear, when raincoiils and unlit'cllas were not absolutely nt'cebsary. The president of the club, Mr. Hai'courti, with his dauglitore, Miss Harconrt and Jlrs. (iiHon, were prosent, i'lid among others were Lady Ward, airs. Bidwill (Fpatherston), Mrs. Walter Johnston, Mrs. Christie (Wanganui), Mrs. Arthur Duncan, Mrs. Hunio (Wairnrapa), Mr. and Mrs. Gillies (Otaki), Mr. and Miss Cohen (Wangatiui), Mrs. Barniixmt, Mrs. Eric lliddiford, Mrs. Hubert Nathan, Mrs. I<\ Nathan (Palmerston), Mrs. ami Miss Joseph, Miss Skerrett, Mra. Tringlißm, Mrs. E. Blundell, Jlrs. A. K. Whyte, Mrs. Hall-Tliompson, Mrs. J. Findlay, Mrs. M'Ewan, Mr. and Mrs. Kohn, Mrs. Gibbons.

Miss Edith Howes (of the Wellington Girls' College) is to given an address in Christohurch at the end of the month on "Tho Training of Children," the address being given under the auspices of the Social Hygiene Society. 4

Among the visitors to Wellington are Sir George Clifford, and Mias June Clifford.

Miss Phoebe Wilson (Lower llutt) is visiting Christchurch.

The Mayoress (Mrs. J. P. Luke) has received the sum of £15 from Mr. Hanbly for the Countess of Liverpool Trench Comforts Fund.

Sister Philpotts, who is returning to the. front shortly, has just been making her second visit to New Zealand since having been on military service. She was among the first of tho nurses to leave this country, and has been nursing in Egypt, England, Belgium, and France.

Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Siinderland (Napier) aro visiting Dunedin.

Mrs. Alaria Arundel, whose death took placo on January 11. at the age of 77 years, was a granddaughter of the lote Baron Rothschild (states the "Otago Daily .Times"). Her mother, daughter of the Baron, was intended by her parents to marry a wealthy man of her own persuasion, but not liking the- intended husband, she refused, and eloped with Abraham Smith, her father's coaohinan, with the result that Mrs. Smith was deprived of all benefits from her own family. The marriage was not a happy one. Mrs. Arundel, .at the age of 16, with the help of her mother, left her home in London, going to Geelong, where she mot her lirst husband, Mr. Henry Wright. She came to Dunedin in 1859, and lived with hor husband till he died, in 1871. There were five sons and two daughters, of whom two sons—Henry Goorgo Wright, of Clyde, tailor, and Samuel Charles Wright, of Auckland, steward— and one daughter—Mrs. George Gubbins, of Kew—survive. Mrs. Arundel was married to Mr. George Arundel, who predeceased her by same years.