SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8340, 29 January 1913, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs Shirtcliffe is at Potorua. Miss Cargill leaves for a visit to Dunedin by the Monowai to-day. Mr and Mrs Garden, of New Plymouth, are staying at the Occidental.

Mrs and Miss Massey returned from Eotorua with the Premier yesterday. Colonel Harrison (England) and Mrs Harrison, who will arrive from Kotorua to-day. will stay at the Grand. Miss Nessie Mackay has gone to spend some weeks with her sister in Taumarunui.

Mr and Mrs Griffiths, who have been staying at the Grand, have returned to Blenheim.

Mr and Mrs George Seymour, who were staying at Bellevue Gardens, Lower Hutt, returned to Picton on Monday.

Mrs A. Wilson will return to Wanganui to-morrow after visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs Kennedy. Mrs Halo Munro, who has been visiting Mrs Stand, near Day's Bay, returns name to-day. Mrs Edwards, wife of Mr Justice Edwards, leaves with her daughters by the Maunganui on Friday, on route for England.

A motor party from Porton, consisting of Mr and Mrs Green, Mrs T. Ellington and Miss Nye. arrived yesterday. They are staying at the OcoidentaL Miss Sybil Arnndalo and Miss Amy Murphy, of the Williamson New Comic Opera Company, are staying at tho|lotel Windsor.

Mr, Mrs and Miss McKay, of Blenheim, are staying at the Occidental, also Mrs Laidlaw (Wanganui), Mr and Mrs Elson, and the Misses Cope. Mrs Dawson, of Christchurch, Mrs Hulme, of Blenheim, and Mr and Mrs O. Allan, of Nelson, are among the guests at the Empire.

Mrs Blanche Levi intends leaving for England early in the year. She will be accompanied by her daughter. Miss Kathleen Levi, whoso brilliant musical gifts are to have every advantage procurable by the best tuition. The absurd fashion of glass heels to her dancing slippers set by Mrs Nicholas 1. ingworth (nee Ileosovelt) has been improved upon by some Parisian belles, who wear jewelled heels to their evening shoes, the jewels matching the colour of the gown.

A garden fete, in aid of the funds of St. Hilda's Church, will bo opened by Mr W. H. D. Bell, M.P., this afternoon. The fete will be held in the grounds of Mr W. J. Perkins' residence, Tiber street. Island Bay, and in the evening the garden will be illuminated and musical selections will bo given. The "Johnson Female Trade School," of New York, is now opened, and is ready to fulfil the highest hopes of the ablest bodied young American woman. There are sis instructors working under a principal. and .they are prepared to., teach aspiring young women the traces of brick-, laying, carpentry, plumbing, and other branches of the building trade. The marriage of Miss K. Murphy, eldest daughter of Mr P. J. Murphy, to Mr I'rost, of the Defence Stores, only son of Mrs M. Higgins, of Wellingtou, was celebrated at St. Mary of the Angels' Church on Monday. Bather Kimball was the officiating priest, and the bride was given, away by Mr T. Miliner, of Kelburho. The bridal gown was of fine embroidered muslin, with which was worn the usual veil and orange blossom and a pretty shower bouquet was carried. Miss M. Bannin, as bridesmaid, wore a pretty frock of white muslin and carried a shower bouquet. Mr B. Leydon was best man. After the ceremony the guests Were entertained in Scott's Tea Booms, where the usual toasts were honoured. Among the guests was the llov. Bather Kim bell, who played the “Wedding March" upon the arrival of the bride and bridegroom. At the close of the reception Mr and Mrs Frost, the latter wearing a brown travelling costume and a black picture bat, left by train for the north, where they intend spending their honeymoon.