SOCIAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3604, 17 August 1912, Page 4

SOCIAL AND GENERAL

Mrs Davis Canning, Oakburn, Hawke’s Bay, is visiting Mrs "VV. Bustoy, at Tolcomaru Bay.

Mrs Charles Buscke returns from the South on Wednesday.

Tlio engagement is announced of Mias Kitty Wood, youngest daughter of the late Mr William Wood, “Lancing,” Napier, to Captain Hugh Hollis, of “Castle Rising,” Norfolk, England, captain of tli-o Tyser liner Makar mi.

Mrs Gargolioutli, who has been on an extended visit to Hawke's Bay, returned to Gisborne on V> ednesday.

The Caravan Club is quite an established institution in England, and many people prefer the slower method of seeing the country to rushing oyer the miles in a motor-car. Cn June 12 the annual dinner was to bo held in London, when all the members, men and women, were supposed to join in the discussion and give accounts of their experiences during this season. In addition to the annual there fLll mill llfil UlCct, which wiTl probably -be at Stratford-on-Avan this year. Last year forty caravans were present.

Gislicme women who arc working so earnestly to obtain a Blanket Nurse for this district, deserve all the help that is possible to give to such a worthy movement.

Mrs MeLemon, Napier, is visiting Gisborne.

Mrs Harry de Lautour is visiting Christchurch.

Mrs W. G. Sherratt returns from Christchurch on Wednesday',

Mrs J. Humphries, Napier, is visiting Mrs ft largo lion tli.

The Hunt Club Bali to be held on Wednesday promises to be a very enjoyable function, a great number of invitations having been accepted.

A bag stall and bag competition is ■to b? a feature in connection with the Holy Trinity Church’s Oriental Bazaar, to be held in September.

Kismet and Swastika are names that have evidently charmed the Sydney girls, as Kismet and -Swastika dances are very popular assemblies there just now.

The Turkish woman is marriageable at the age of nine, and by Turkish law*, at that age, if married, she is competent to manage her property and. dispose of one-third of her fortune. The law allows her to abandon her hu-sband’s house for just cause, and will protect her in so doing. She cannot be compelled to labor for the support of her husband.

Romantic circumstances surrounded the marriage of the late Sir John Logan Campbell and his late wire. While on a tour in 18-37 Sir John heard of the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny, and before the close of the year he was on his way to the noraiwesfc provinces of India, where Lady Campbell, then Miss Wilson, was living at Mar ad a,had. He succeeded in reaching Meerut without accident. En route he arrived at Cawnpore, Lady Campbell’s birthplace, just in time to witness the march out of Sir Colin Campbell to the relief of Lucknow. The doctor claimed bis bride at the hands of Judge Wilson, of Mada-da-ba-d (later a prominent personage in Christchurch, and known to New Zealanders as Sir Cracroft Wilson, C.R., K. 0.5.1., the marriage taking place at Bffiecmt. Lady Campbell lead been one of the refugees who escaped to the hills at Nainec Tail, where all were

shut up for many months until tlio mutiny was partially quelled. There were three children of the marriage, all feeing born in Italy. One, a daughter,. alone survives.