WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 113, 6 February 1919, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

An Eventful Journey,

Miss E. A. Clarke, Merivale, Christehnreh, who went south by tho Maori last night, has just returned from a journoy as full of incident as a journey of its kind could well be. Miss Clarke left hero vn November with the object of going to India to. inspect and study the leper hospitals there, These' hospitals, conducted in connection with tho. Mission to Lepers, which has sfor US patron the Dowager Duchess of Dnf--Tei'in. and Ava, mother of Lady Plunkct. ' v lien the Manuka arrived inSvdney the passengers wero all quarantined, Hot withstanding all the precautions taken at this eide. However, after 'it considerable, delay .Miss Clarke left Sydnev in tho Dutch steamer Hotitman, for India via Torres Strait. Thoy enjoyed perfect weather, but after passing the Great Barrier the sJiip struck Heat's licet within Wty yards of the lighthouse, and stuok nard and fast aground for two weeks. Tho day following the mishap, in answer to wireless,, the Nikko Maru came in Bight, and stood by.for a day and' a half T.h'6 passengers,of the Houtniait-who had been warned to. put what valuables they could into a suit-case, in view of the possibility of- having to take to the boats -wero given an opportunity to tranship, but Captain Qoldhouse had shown them so much consideration and had so inspired their, with confidence that they agreed to stay on board tho Hoiitinan, ■with the.exception of Miss Clarke, who m, u "Stafford any further loss of- time, the j\ikko Maru having tried in vain p low tho Hontman off tho reef, finally 'steamed-for Thursday Island, whore Miss Clarke Arris-able to cable to her friends. Upon making inquiries she was told that if she proceeded by way of Singapore and Calcutta - she would certainly again be quarantined iii both places, as tho epidemic was, very .severe there. She therefore decided,- to give •up her mission to India for tho time.being, realising that further-delay would moau that she could accomplish nothing before tho hot season commenced. So after some interesting experiences amongst the islands of Torres Strait she had the'luck to get a passage in a coastal boat back to Sydney-only to be agnin held up-this time by the shipping deadlock. However, she has finally returned to New Zealand for the time being, but the interest she feels in these hospitals and the mission generally is so great that.her visit to India is only postponed—not abandoned; and she was fortunate In being able, during her enforced 6tay in Sydney to rouse- much interest there. Miss Clarke's work'is quite voluntary, and sho bears all her own' expenses, travelling and otherwise.

The garden party at .Kurapuni, which had to bo postponed owing to the epidemic, is to. be held, by the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Cave, in their garden at Nympsfield on Thursday, February, 13. The following is a list of the stallholders: Mrs. W. Judd, needlework; Mrs. Cheunells, cakes; Mrs. Yalden, jumble stall; Mrs. Whitton, sweets; Miss Godfrey, flowers; Mrs. AYhitwell, produce; Mifs Toxward, fruit; Mrs. Giddinßs and Airs. Henderson, fairy well. 'Afternoon-tea.will be supplied by Mrs. Braggins, Mrs. Nesbit, and Mrs. AVyber.

Mrs. K. S. Williams, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to Tologa Bay.

: Miss Violet Redmond, formerly a resident of AVangaaui, was married recently ftt St. Mark's Anglican Church, Bemuera, to Lieutenant Robert Joseph M'acKenna, of tho Auckland. District Headquarters Staff. The bridegroom has had an interesting _ career, .comprising fourteen years' military service in various corps and in several parts of the world; he has borne, arms in England, Canada, South Africa,. Egypt, and New Zealand. He first camo...to the country at tho conclusion of the Boer War, throughout which ho served, first in the Canadian Mounted Rifles, ■ and afterwards in the Imperial Yeomanry. On tho outbreak of the present war, Mr. MaoKenna, then a schoojmnster in the Thames district, en■listed in the Main Body,'and 6erved with tho 6th Haurakis, till invalided Into in the following year.

Mrs. W. Robinson and daughter, who hive, been staying at the Mansions, left by the s,s. Durham on an extended trip to Yorkshire.

•The Misses. Tildersley,. of the AVairarapa, are at present spending a holiday at the Mount Cook Hermitage.

The engagement is announced of Miss Bila Rutherford, daughter of Mr. Edmund Rutherford, Kekerangu, Marlborough, to Mr. E. L. Good, Marlborough. Mr. Good has recently returned from France, where he was on active servico for nearly three years.

Mrs. Somerset .Playne and her small son have arrived, from Calcutta on a visit to her mother, Mrs. J. C. Standidge, "Fairfield," Hawke's Bay.

Mrs. Ernest Hadfield and her family have- returned to town.

Mrs. A. L. Warburton returned from a visit to Hawke's Bay last night.

Mrs.- Louis Blundell, who has been holiday-making in the South Island, returned yesterday. She was accompanied by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. J, Blundell and by Miss Wood (Christclrarcli).

Mrs". AV. H. Turnbull, who has boon visiting Christchurch, is returning this week.

Mrs. Hall.Thompson is staying with Miss .Sounders, Worcester Street, Christchurch.

Dr. and Mrs. C. J. Reakes aro visiting Christchurch.

Sister Gilmor, Wellington, is visitirj" relatives in AVestland.

Mrs. J. P. Luke, at present, in Christchurch, is the guest of His, Holland.

Colonel R. Logan, C.8., and Mrs. Logan, arrived in Auckland by tho Talune. J

MATTERS 0? INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

C'ablo news has been received of tho Arrival at Albany of Lieuteaant-Colonel and Mrs. Whyte, from Egypt, says an exchange. Mrs. Whyte, as Sister Dorothy Rose, was nursing for some years at tho Christchurch Hospital,, and belongs to a well-known' Christchurch family.

Sister Burton, N.Z.E.P., Rotorua, is visiting Christchurch.

Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Low ; ry and the Misses Lowry, llawke's Bay, are visiting Christehurch.

Some of the women of Wellington are already beginning to take, an interest in the coming municipal elections. At au informal meeting the question of selecting women as candidates was mooted'and will be discussed ■ more, fully later on.

A monument to Nurse Edith '.Chveil and Canadian • nurses killed during tho war, is to "bo. erected at Ottawa by public subscription.

At a meeting of the Arundel Town Council recently.tho Mayor read a letter from the Duchess of Norfolk, stating that the Duke of Norfolk wished, as an expression of his'joy at tho news of tho armistice, to give to the town for any purposo that, tho corporation might select.

Mr. and Mrs. Chantlor,' of East Liss, Haute,, have had- six. sons serving in tho war, five of them since MM uid 1915. One was twico wounded, and another badly gassed.

A war thanksgiving service held in the English Church at Christiania, was attended by the Queen of Norway and the staffs of tho British, American, and Russian Legations.

"Sweethearts" Monument, erected in Camp Dovens, Mass., from small stones brought from all over the United States by wives, sisters, sweethearts, and mothers of soldiers, is to bo made per: manont.