SOCIAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3360, 28 October 1911, Page 8

SOCIAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Miss Kathleen Akroyd who has been Chief Librarian of the Gisborne Library is shortly resigning. Hot marriage will take place toward the end of next month.

The engagement is. announced of Miss Rachel Williams, second daughter of Mr. T. S. Williams, Tuparoa, to Mr. T rank Reid, East Coast.

Mrs Lanauze (Hastings), arrived on Saturday last on a- visit to her daughter Mrs C. Margoliouth.

Mr and Mrs John Jamieson who were here for the Show returned to Hawke’s Bay on .Wednesday evening.

Mrs Nolan gave a very jolly dance at her residence on Monday evening.

Mr and Mrs John Morris, Hauiti, were in town this week.

Mrs L. Clark gave a pleasant musicale on Tuesday afternoon, for her guest Miss Doris Webb, of Wellintgon.

Mr and Mrs Camplin Gray returned on Wednesday from their honeymoon trip to Sydney.

Professor Leo Wiener, of Hainid University, has a child worthy to rm k with Evelyn’s son or “the Hampdenshire Wonder” as an miant prodigy. When Norbert was IS months old ms nursegirl one day amused herself by making letters in the sand of the seashore. She noticed that he was watching her attentively, and in fun began to teach him the alphabet. Two days afterwards she told the professor in great surprise that he knew it perfectly. . They started teaching him to spell at the age of 3. In a very few weeks he was reading quite fluently, and by 6 was acquainted with a number of excellent books, including works by Darwin, Ribot, and other scientists, which were put into his hands in order to instil in him something of the scientific spirit.

On the first night of the 'Williamson Dramatic Company, in the large and fashionable audience noticed were:— Mr and Mrs John Morris, Miss M. Sherratt, Mr and Mrs F. Barker, Miami Mrs C. A. 'Fenwick, Mr and Mrs Kells, Mr and Mrs H. Dod, Miss Cook (Christchurch), Mr ancl Mrs W. A. Barton, Mrs J. W. Preston, Mr and Mrs Jex-Blake, Misses Busby (3), Miami Mrs J. Blair, Miss M. Ensor, Miami Mrs Carylon, Misses L. and M. Rees, Mr and Mrs H. White, Miss Coop, Mr and Miss G. Pyke, Mr H. and Miss Tullock, Mr and Mrs T. Todd, Mr and Mrs L. Coop, Mr and Mrs R. Murphy, and Misses Black (3).

•Two engagements of interest recently announced are those of Mr. H. R. Tullock, and Miss Hare of the Rosstrevor Hospital staff, and Mr. Len Tullock and A 1 iss Macartney.

Quite the latest thing in New York smart society is a “divorce dinner.” Mrs Oscar Turner is about to proceed to Nevada, where there is a divorce mill, to tile a petition against her husband, hut priorto doing so she invited a number of her friends to dinner at the Waldorf Hotel to wish her good luck.-

Mr and Mrs G. Fennell and Mr. and Mrs E. N. Fennell, of Sudbury (Suffolk), have just celebrated their silver wedding. The two men are brothers and married sisters on the same day, says the East Anglian “Daily Times.”

A cablegram from London states that the wedding of Earl Percy with Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox, at St Peter’s Eaton Square, was the most brilliant of the year. There was a great concourse of guests, and the presents included some from the King, Queen, and other royalties.

should never be made so stiff that a rolling-pin could be used; turn it out into mould or on doth with the spoon. Many coolos flour the pudding cloth. There is no necessity. BATTER PUDDING WITH MEAT. Make a batter with flour, milk and eggs. Well beat and set asid'e. Put the meat into the baking tin, and wdien half done, pour the batter into the tin. Set the meat upon a stand and set the stand into the batter. The meat will take longer to cook than the pudding, if fat meat, some of the dripping should be taken away or the pudding will be too' rich. SUET DUMPLINGS. Chop six ounces of suet and put it into a basin with eight ounces of flour, one ounce of fine bread-crumbs. Make into dough with water of milk. _ Many cooks use a beaten egg. Divide the whole into six dumplings with floured fingers, and place in boiling water. Simmer for an hour. .There is no necessity for these dumplings to be rolled in a doth.