SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 230, 17 June 1918, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Benefit Concert and Dance at Upper Hutt Tho quartermaster's staff at Trentham Camp held a very successful concert and dance in the Town Hall, Upper Hutt, 011 Thursday, iu aid of the widow of (lit . lata Corporal Troward. Jn spite ol tho wee night, the hall was well filled and those present were amply repaid for tuining out in such weather. The programme was arranged by tho Misses Nicholas, and was of great merit, every number receiving a well-deserved encore. Dancing; took place from 10 o'clock till midnight, the music being supplied by tho Tren'''.am Camp Band with Miss M'lnncs at the piano. Supper arrangements wore in the hands of Mesdames Ma bey and Douglas. Q.M.S. J. Reid anted as organising secretary and treasurer. Tho following contributed to the pro- ■ pramme; Misses Pauline Browne, Doris Clarke, Falknei-j Fraim, D. Harrison, L. Nicholas, and Jean Nicholas, and Messrs. Albert Russell, Perry, nnd Pickett. Miss .lean Nicholas was the official accompanist. Bottles and Tins. Captain Hall-Thompson, U.N., has kindly consented to open the first auction sale of the bottles, tins, etc., which the Ladies' Committee for Navy League funds in aid of sailors' comforts has been collecting with such success. Mr. A. Ci. Wallace will conduct the sale as auctioneor. The committee again reminds the public that it wants more, and morefi and yet more tins. A new depot has been opened by Mrs. Hall in Hill Street. Red Cross Dance. 011 Saturday cveuing a very enjoyable nnd successful dance, organised uy tho .'k'hovndon girls fur their Red Cross day at the Wellington Red Cross Shop, was held iu the Murine Engineers' Institute. 'The ballroom was not too crowded, although there were many present, nor wivs there any scarcity of partners, as several soldiers from the camps were prosent. Tho connnittoe responsible for the arrangements wore tho Misses Bothainley, .to. Brown, M. Joseph, JI. Marchbanks, M. Mooro. J. and ,R. Shirtcliffo, K. and A. Stott, and L. Dyer (lion, secretary). The chaperones wero Mesdames Shirtcliffo, Dyer, Stott. Brown, and Mnrchbanks. Most inspiriting music for dancing was played by Cowley's Orchestra, and extras by Mrs. Murclibanks, Miss and .Mr. Foster. The decorations of tho supper table were of autumn leaves and pjnk camellias. As a result of the dunce tho sum of ,£lB was realised. Among those who were present wero the Misses Russell, I. Wilford, ManId Ward, C. Edmonds, P. Kendall, A. Nathan, K. Doughtv, Johnston (2), ll..Brislow, C, Free. B. Knight, C. Muir, J. Benuchamp, D. Kirlcer, R. Moss, Wilson, Dclautour, A. Montgomery, M. Gray, C. Morice, M. Cowper. Hawkins, 0. Beckett. Mac Donald, Duncan, Major Harston, Captain Cross. Lieutenants Lees. Park, Howden, nnd Brow". Messrs. Bridgeman, Tosswill, Reeves, P. Jforice, Findlay, Gamble,' S. Coote, W. Pringle. Winder, Abraham, Gilmour, B. Chatfield. B. Boddington, G. Russell. Friberg, Kirker, M. Brown, and the Rev. G. Turner.

British Valour, '.L'iie Paris correspondent of "Tho Queen" of .-ipril ii 7 is responsible for the following:—"All other battles fade beforo tho terror and strength and viciousncss of this one. Here, oil foreign soil, our inon are giving tueir lives with that grand simplicity which marks all they do. uiid although military critics may speak of tho operations with that detached aloofness that seems to hold tho highest heroism as something like a game of chess, wc women cannot forget that by their own magnificent courage awl discipline our men. saved Paris. Their splendid behaviour has not been sufficiently made clour ns yet, and one French correspondent has protested—for he ivas with our Army when it came back. For our men did save tho day. Let us quote a French irar correspondent on the subject: 'It was the sth Army which Jiad to support tho hardest shock, Masses of first-rate troops were hurled on it, renewing, unceasingly, their attacks night and' day. Had this Army broken, it would have meant disorderpanic, perhaps—and the Germans would have got through. Instead, tho retreat was carried out in perfect order, and it held until-we went to its help—held to the very last minute, the supreme moment. It is necessary that this should be said to do away with calumniatory rumours and an odious story which was beginning to bo believed by the public.' Another war correspondent in l'rance has paid such a tribute to the 05th Division, which.fought for Givcnchy, that it is impossible for nnyono of English blood to read it without giving wav to that dangerous thing, emotion.' But perhaps the finest tribute lie paid those men of ours was to quote first what u German prisoner said to him, an officer of high rank. This man, our bitter enemy, said that it was almost an honour to be mado a prispner by such soldiers. The Frenchmen who are writing these things are doing good service, for they inspire tho French public with confidence in their Ally at a difficult turning of the road to peace."

IKb following ladies will be in charge ol tliu Aavy League offices this week:— Monday, Mrs. W. Luke anil Miss Cable; Wednesday morning, .Mrs. Lnrnacli; afternoon, Mrs. Buxton; Tlmssdny, Mrs. Harding; Friday, the "Spinnerj" ladies. _ A very successful jumble sale wag held in St. Peter's Mission Hall, Taranaki Strpet, on Saturday afternoon, by the Spinsters' Clnb, Second-hand clothing for men, women, and children, boots and shoes, china and glassware, etc., met with a good demand, and as a result the sum of ;618 was realised. Mrs. M'Girr and Mrs. Bradley, of Sea(.01111, will be in charge of the Woodward Street Red Cross Shop oil Wednesday. The .marriage took place on April 30 at Holy.Trinity Church, Richmond, of Hedle.v Jeffreys, son of the late Mr. Campbell Thomson, of (iisborne, ami Auckland, to Miss Ethel Douglas Hume, daughter of tiie late Mr. W. W. Hume, Ceylon Civil Service. A reminder appears this morning of the monthly meeting of the committee of the Soldiers' Club 011 Wednesday morning at 11.30 o'clock. Dr. Jessie Maddison, daughter of Mr .T. C. Maddison, of Christehurch, has returned to the Dominion after eighteen months' war work in England, principally in the Wharnclill'e Military 110-pi-