WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 83, 2 January 1919, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

Countess Markiewicz, M.P. Tlie Countess Markiewicz, who has been elected a member of the British Parliament, is a remarkable woman, and took a prominent part in the Dublin rebellion in Easter, 1910, says an exchange. ' Sho commanded the insurgents in the Royal College of SurgeQns. She was sentenced to death by court-martini, the sentence afterwards was commuted .to penal servitude for life, but in Juno, 1917, she was released from Aylesbury Prison, and a few days later, when she arrived in Dublin, she was met by a large crowd, which accompanied her as she drove through the principal streets. ' Shv is a daughter of the late Sir ( Henry Gore-Booth, Bart.,, a largo landowner of Sligo. 1 After being' presented at Court to Queen Victoria in the Jubilee year she became an art student in Paris, and achieved a certain amount of success, Sixteon yeatfe ago she married Count Cosimir Markiewicz, ' a Polish artist, who at Easter, 1916, was fighting with the Russian Army. In addition to her activities as a Sinn Feiner she took (i leading part in suffragist demonstrations. She established the National Boy Scouts in 1910. and this body gave many young lads to the rnnks of'the rebels. ' She was prominently associated with James Larkin in his ■ activities, which paralysed {he trade of Dublin iu 1913 and led to grave riots in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Horrocks, of Auckland, are staying at "Sayes Court" during the holidays. Mrs, David Lang lias quite recovered from the influenza, and is now the guest of Mrs. J. A. Crogie, Colenso Hill, N«-. pier., Mrs. Schoch (official visitor Porirun Mental Hospital) acknowledges gifts for tho patients Christmas trees from Quoree Bros., Te Aro Fouse, C. Smith, Ivirkcaldie and Stains, George and Kersley, Ltd., Harold Brown, Levin and Co., Johnston and Co., S. Myers, Hayman and Co., Abbott, Oram and Co., Warehousemen's Association, D.I.C. Nurse M'Millan left by .the Dorset yesterday for/Colombo. Nurse M'Millan, after working with the A.N.S. in M'eso-; potamia, has 'been on a' few months'' furlough in New Zealand. Mrs. Hursthouse, with her two cliil-' dren, left by the Dorset -'-yesterday - to join her husband, Major Hursthouse, in Egypt. Mrs. Gore Adams has also gone to Egypt. ' Mrs. Allan Johnstone is staying with Colonel and Mrs. Micdonald at Paekaka- • riki. , Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wilson, Parriell, Auckland,' are visiting Mrs. Malcolm Mason; the Hutt. Amongst the passengers by tho Dorset yesterday.'were Mrs. . ,'ltulo and Mrs. Vclvin, going to Egypt. Mrs. Liddells, of AVangamii; and Nurse J. Liddells.s N.Z.A.N.S.. are on a holiday visit : to Wellington. ■ '.Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Slecman are slaying with Mrs. W. N. ' Bond, Clareiliont. Mr. and Mrs. 11. C. Bell, of Masterton, are visiting Christchurch.: Nurse' Bowie, Rotorua, after spending a few days in Christchurch, has gone, on to Timaru. .•