WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1922, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONALS. Mrs. R. Wyborn, of Waverley, is in town for the tennis tournament. Miss E. Whitcombe has returned from Cambridge. Mrs. A. R. Ryder left last night for a short visit to Auckland. Mrs. H. Stocker is visiting Christchurch. Mrs. Alf. Webster has gone for a trip to the Southern Lakes. Mrs. Geo. Home is spending a holiday at Timaru and Mt. Cook. Mrs. A. McHardy is on. a visit to Auckland. Miss Elsie Gray has returned to Wellington. Miss L. Carrington left on Tuesday to return to Melbourne. Mrs. Hirst has returned to Invercargill. Mrs. Rochfort has returned to Te Kuiti. Mrs. Burdekin returns to Wellington on Tuesday. Mrs. G. Pownall (Wanganui) is a visitor here for the tennis tournament.

Mrs. Sladden and Mrs. Geo. Pott left this week to visit Auckland and Tauranga.

Mrs. Milroy, who has been spending some weeks here, has returned to Auckland.

Mrs. Sidney Burgess left last night to spend a week or two in Auckland and Russell.

Mrs. E. C. Griffiths was hostess at an afternoon tea party yesterday afternoon for Mrs. Broadhirst Hill, who has recently returned from the Soloman Islands.

Miss Ora Paget, who has been the guest of Miss B. A. Campbell, leaves this morning for a motor trip with her father (Dr. Paget, Palmerston North) to Te Kuiti and Hamilton.

Miss F. D. Sturtevant , who is resignin<r from the N.P. stamp duties department at the end of this month, after over four years’ service, was yesterday the recipient of a presentation in the form of an Oriflamme jardinier from the staffs of the stamp duties and land transfer departments.

Mrs. R. .L Collins, of Wellington, who has been on a visit to New Plymouth and surrounding districts, left for M an<ranui bv the mail train on Thursday, and will reach Wellington early next week.

* The visiting ladies who are taking part in the Taranaki tennis tournament are Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Graham. Miss Rutherfurd (Waverley). Mrs. L. Smith (Hawera), Mrs. Weston. Miss Boon (Stratford). Mrs. Armstrong. Mrs W. Smith. Miss Lyle. Mrs. lan Grant Miss Edna Hamerton. Miss Nutting (Inglewood) and Miss Therkleson (lanki). THE PRINCE OF WALES. RUMORED COMING ENGAGEMENT. 4 well-informed London correspondent states that Mayfair is all agog discussing the rumored coming engagement ot the Prince of Wales to Lady Rachel Cavendish. The engagement, it issaid. will be formally announced immediately following the arrival home of the Prince of Wales from his Eastern trip, the wedding to take’ place some time in the latter half of the year. As Lady Rachel is to be one of the eight bridesmaids at Princess Mary’s wedding this month, her reported engagement to the Prince of Wales sounds feasible enough. ._ne is the fourth daughter of the Duke of Devonshire, recently Governor-General .pf Canada. Shrewd guessers have already tipped one of the eight as a likely bride- for the popular young Prince. Ladv Rachel is young and a very attractive English girl. Her great-grand-mother, the handsome Duelr s of Devonshire, is well-known to all by the ottreproduced portrait of her by Gainsborough. Older readers will remember that This famous painting was mysteriously stolen in 1876 and was recovered under strange circumstances some x.o vears later. The Devonshire dukedom originated in the twelfth century, so the family is quite an old, one. EXCITEMENT IN PUKEMIRO. The mining village of Pukemiro, back in the hills, seven miles from Huntly, has for weeks been agog with gossip over the alleged “carryings-on” of a married man and a married woman i (savs the Waikato Times). So worked up over the scandal did the married females become, that several mass meetings to discuss a remedy for the evil that had fallen on the community, resulted in a decision to take the drastic step of “tin-canning” the lady 7 in her home. So one night this party of moralists sallied forth and beat their metallic instruments before the condemned one’s door, whilst challenging her to step outside and declare, herself innocent of the charges levelled against hei. To the challenge so thrown out, she did not respond, but. instead, a man whom witnesses later alleged to be the erung one. came out from behind the house with a rifle, which he discharged. This was enough for the tin can instrumentalists, who dropped their cans and ran home. Several of the demonstrators were prosecuted at the Huntly Court last week for their part in the affair, and were discharged. The sequel was heard in the Hamilton Court on Tuesday, when Ruby Rayner sought a separation from her husband. and towards her expenses 53 of the 56 houses in Pukemiro subscribed sums varying up to £l. The case was adjourned.