SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 99, 21 January 1919, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Sydney street soldiers' Club. A meeting of the executive appointed 1 by tho General Committee to arrange matters in connection with the 6ale of furniture and effects of the Sydney Street Soldiers' Club was .held yesterday morning. . This oxeeutivo consists of tho House Committee, arid has in hand! all the business of winding up the affairs of the club. Mrs. \V. Nathan presided, and there ivero present Mesdamts Henry Hall (hon. treasurer), Mrs. C. W. Earlo (hon. secretary), and Mrs. Pearson. An apology . for absence was received from Mrs. Coleridge, wbq is out of town. Members, of the committee submitted reports of the various duties undertaken by each, and satisfactorily concluded. The report of the honorary auctioneer,' Mr. S. George Nathan, was .received, and showed that the sale, was very good, the prices realised being most satisfactory. ■ It was resolved that' the following letters of thanks he sent:—To'Mr. S. George Nathan, for •his services as auctioneer; to Mr. Yicltery and Miss Wright, for services as' honorary auditors; and to His Worship the Mayor, Mr. J. 1\ Luke, for concessions granted on the olectric light bills during the life of the club. There are a few more small : accounts to settlo before the final audit, and the bal-aiVce-sheeff .will"' then be • published. Tho money remaining will be handed over to the Returned Soldiers' Club, and there is no doubt hut that the amount will be a substantial one.

At St. Peter's Church yesterday Miss Lornn tie Lautour, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. do Lautour, Oriental Terraco, was married to Mr. I'. L. Hodge, eldest, son of the Rev. W. H. Hodge, of Melbourne. The Rev. E. Kompthorne was the officiating clergyman. The brido wore a gown of white taffeta made with a train, and tho customary wreath and veil; she carried-a bouquet of -pale pink flowers.' The bridesmaids were Miss Monica Pulton and Miss Elaine de Lautour, sister of tho bride. They both, woro . white frocks iihd black hats, rind carried bouquets of crimson flowers. Mr. W. A. Smith was best man, and Mr. Wilfred Hodge groomsman. Mr. P. L. Hodgo, Mr. W. A. Smith, and Mr. Wilfred Hodge, all appeared in -uniform, as did tho bride's brother also, all having returned from..active service. Mrs. de Lautour, mother of the bride, wore a drsss.of amethyst silk and* a black hat. Mr. and Mrs. Hodge have gone south for their honeymoon, and will- make thfjir Jipmo .in. .Wellington. '..Mrs. Hodge wore a navy bluo costume and a small hat to travel in.

Mrs. Pnttenden, Hong-Kong, is at presont visiting New Zealand, and is staying with Mrs. Davison. St. Leonard's, Culverden.

Mr. and Mrs. Bruca Christie are visiting Cliristchurch.

Lady Walker is visiting Wellington

The late Princo Victor. Dulecp Singh, who died recently in London, left estate valued-at £67,192. Ho was born in London in 1866, the son of the late .Maharajah Duleep Singh, of Lahore, and married the 'youngest daughter of the ninth Earl of- Coventry.

The marriago took place at tho Vivian Street'baptist Church on January 7 of Miss Nit a Webb, eldest daughter of Air. and Mrs.'James Webb, of, Wellington,' to Farrier-Sergeant Key ,Bridger, of the Tenth Reinforcements. The ceremony was performed by the .Rev. W. lieckingh'am, and there'was a numerous attendance of relatives aud friends. Miss Annie- Rye and Miss Ruby. Webb, sister of the bride, were bridesmaids, and Mrl Goodman, of Motueka, was bost man. Tho brido, who was given away by her father, wore a dress of whito silk'with an overdress of lace and pearl trimmings, and the usual veil and orange blossoms. She carried a bouquot of white lilies and roses; The bridesmaids also woro white and had bouquets of pink carnations and sweot peas. A reception was afterwards hold at Godber's rooms, and tho young couple left later for their home in Motifeka.

Mr. and Mrs. Stott have taken Miss Holmes's house in Hawkostonu Street for. a.time. •

Dr. and Mrs. Clay have teturned to Wellington from tho south.

An American woman, Miss Lucy Hewitt, is doing novel war work. Her plan is to "re-chickenisc" France. Slio sells buttons fof 10 cents inscribed with "I have a.chicken in France," and every button represents the- price of an incubator egg. One thousand eggs represent' a full incubator. 'The incubators and eggs provided by Miss Howltt are housed on a- farm, and are being cared for by COO refugee children under the direction of a former soldier. Through the enterprise of this American girl 13 poultry farms were established in France in less than, nine months. Eighty pounds is necessary to establish. a-farm, and this includes wooden barracks furnished' by tho French Government, four 1000-egg incubators, and the salary for tho exsoldier for pno year.

'Nothing shows the trend of modern thought better than- the fact that the Duchess of Marlborough bus.'been coopted member of tho London County Council for West Southwark, and that nobody thinks the selection unsuitable. Before the war the duchess, who was Miss Consnelo Vanderbilt, of New York, was known as the owner of the finest pearls, the biggest diamond tiara, and the most luxurious modern house in London:. She also was .the last of the great ladies to appear in the Park in an enormous baroi.clie, with powdered coachman and footman in plush breeches and silk stockings.

On December 18, at St. Stephen's Church, Sydney, the llev. John Ferguson celebrated tho marriago of Miss Esma Levestam, only daughter of Mr. ard Mrs. A. F. Levestam,'of Glenforrie, Kirribilli, and formerly of Wellington, and Mr. Victor Joseph Phillips, son of. Mr. and Mrs. S. Phillips, of H-oso Bay. Tho bride's gown was of. pale pink ninon veiled in pink tulle, and having a Grecian drape and court train of white- satin. Tho tulle veil was held with a wreath of mvrtlo and silver leaves. Miss G. Phillips and Miss Marjory Garviji were* in .attendance. Thoy woro.pink tulle frocks mounted on satin, and pink tulle veils, held with wreaths of pink bebe roses. Mr. D,. Sinclair was host man. and Mr. R: E. Doi-aii groomsman. Tho recontion.was held at tho Wtmtworth Hotel.

Miss Edwin has gone with' Mrs. Leslie Gorton to Dawson's Falls for a few davs, and will then accompany her to Feilding.

Miss Jean Mackellar, of tho Northland School teaching staff, who lias recently undergone a sevoro oneration, is making good progress towards recovery, hut -will he confined to bed for some time yet.

London Wedding. .Mrs. Henry Hall, Hill Street, heard by the last mail that the marriage was to take place in London on Saturday laa (January 18) of Miss Elsie Booth, daughter of Mr. Booth, of Nelson, formerly of the Union Bank, to Mr. Cecil .Kennedy, of.Calcutta, India, who is at.'present in England, on leave. Miss Elsie Booth has many friends in Wellington, who will wish her every happiness. Mrs. H. Hall, who lias been spending the holidays at. Muritai, has returned to town.

Lady Findlay is visiting Dunedin. Miss Helen Hunter, of Porangahau, and Miss Joan Hunter, of Dannevirke, are the guests of Mrs. W. SeftonMoorhouse, Dixon "Street.

Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Uttlcy (Scots College) halt gone to New Plymouth for a fortnight. .".".'

The matron, Miramar Convalescent Home, acknowledges the following gifts :—Cakes, fruit, flowers, etc., Mrs. Mee Mrs. Payne (Miramar), Mrs. Louis Blundell, Mr. Stone,. Mrs.' M'Vicar, Seatoun Ladies' Sewing Guild, Mrs. Butterworth, Mr. Seaton; music, Messrs. Charles Begg and Co.; magazines,' Mrs. Poynter, Island Bay; books, Miss Wheeler; ash trays and cushions, Red Cross Society (per Miss Nathan); fruit, Red Gross Society (per Mi's: Myers); Christmas .parcels and cake, Soidiers' Comfort Guild (per Mrs. Myers); rowing boat, games, . and, tobacco, Y.M.C.A'. •

Miss Maida Asher,- of the nursing staff of the Wellington Hospital, is visiting her parents, the Rev. J. A. and Mrs. Asher, "of Lincoln Road, Napier.

Miss.Balcombe-Brown, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Morgan, Gisborne, has returned to AVellington.

Masseuse M. Shirley, attached to tho N.Z.E.F.,and recently-on .the staff' of tho Napier Hospital, has received instructions to return to. England. Prior to leaving/' tho hospital "on Saturday Nurso Shirley was met by her lato patients among the' returiie'd" soldiers and given a present' as a mark of .esteem and as an appreciation, for lier services to them.' Since her return from England, where she was on the staff of Brockenhurst Hospital, Nurse Shirley has fulfilled various positions in connection with the nursing of/invalided returned soldiers.- She "arrives in Wellington- to-day, en route for England. , ■.■■■■.'.

Mrs.' G. M. Kebbell has returned to Now Plymouth.

Rosika. Scliwinnor, president of the Hungarian Woman Suffrage Association, has gone to Switzerland as Ambassador. She is tho first woman to servo in that capacity. Mine. Schwin-, ner is a noted pacifist, and is said to have originated tho Ford Peace Ship mission idea. , She was a member of the Peace Ship.

A woman's hand mirror was tho means of saving fifty lives from the torpedoed liner Galway Castle. Among tho survivors was a woman who took from her handbag a small mirror and auggosted that a sailor should use it for making heliographic signals. The attempt was -made, and the signals brought a destroyer at full speed, which took off the~ survivors from-the raft as well as a number-of sailors clinging to wreckage.