SOCIAL AND GENERAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3699, 7 December 1912, Page 4

SOCIAL AND GENERAL.

Miss Rees,, of Gisborne* is on a visit to Napier. .

Mrs and Miss Haskin recently arrived from Sydney, and left for Tokomam Bay on Thursday morning on a visit to Mr and Mrs AVm. Busby, Tokomaru.

Mrs Dodgslnm and Miss Gertrude Dodgshun, who have been visiting .Jiere for the last three months, left •on Sunday or the South. They intend visiting many o'f the New Zealand towns, including Naoier, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Auckland; .also the Waikato district, prior to a trip to England.

Mrs Jack Williams and little Miss Nancy-Williams have gone to Marton to be present at the schoolboys’ sports there.' Miss Mamie Williamson’s bridesmaids will lie Miss Effie Williamson, Miss Williams (Canterbury), Miss Trixie Busby and Miss Nancy Williams. Miss Cissie Foster, formerly of Gisborne and now of Auckland, lias been visiting-here lately. During her stay in Gisborne she was the <niest- of Mrs . Bex Willock, Mrs John Murphy and j Mrs Charles Bennett. j

Mr and Mrs Willock are at present visiting in Hawke’s Bay.

Miss Gwen Lewis will leave for England on the 16th of February.

Miss Nellie Tucker, whose recent indisposition necessitated her going to “Lister” Hospital, has unite recovered and has returned to Makauri. Dr and Mrs Singer are visiting Rotorua. Lord and Lady Islington gave a farewell garden party in Auckland on tlie 2/th inst. Their Excellencies left Auckland, on December 2. The Hon. Joan Diekson-Poynder, accompanied by Franlein War void, left for Germany a few weeks previouslyShe. will there continue her studies during the absence of the Governor and Lady Islington in India. Miss Kitty Wood, of Napier, is to he married to Captain Hollis about the middle of January, and will make her future home in England. The marriage of Mr Edmond Morton, Royal Engineers (son of Mr and Mrs Bernhard Sinauer, London, and grandson of the late Sir Beniamin Benjamin, Melbourne), and Gwendoline Onslow, daughter of the late Mr Arthur Nathan, Auckland, New Zealand, took place in London on November 14. The marriage of Miss Madeline Dunlop to Mr. Douglas Day, of Tauiranga, takes place at her parents’ resiTe Parae, on Thursday next. Mrs T. J. Steele (Remuera, Auckland), is visiting Mrs H. J. Lewis, «. Whataupoko.

The death is announced from "Wellington of Mrs A. J. Bourke. Deceased was born at Baneha, County Tipperary, just 70 years ago and has resided in New Zealand for the last 46 years-. She is survived by four sons and six daughters—Mesdames O’Shea (Hawera), Quirk (Gisborne), Vicars (Taihape), Sister Mary Vincent (Convent of Mercy, Wellington), Misses Alice and Mabel Bourke (Wellington), Messrs M. F. Bourke (Napier), J. J. and T. J. Bourke (Wellington), and J. P. Bourke (Marlborough.) | I do not know, I am sure, what I am going to tell you about. Christmas coming on us so soon does suggest a thousand and one things to be done.

All those Christmas cards and postcards that must he sent, and that important address that somehow got lost —what a search there will be for it! Then the boys, perchance, will be coming home for their annual visit, and, oh dear, what a lot of cake they will eat and you must make. Tim school girls, too, will he hack again and they will sure to have outgrown their frocks, at least I am told it is a little wav they have, or should I sav a big way? .Then, of course, there are the picnics to the Kaiti and Wainui Beaches to he organised, not to mention the Ormond Quarry. It sets one thinking and makes one wonder how the time will be found to darn the stockings and miv the bills, and fit in all those delightful visits to the dentist. Whatever you all do these holidays J do hope you will be very specially ; careful not to go and drown course ves. " j Joking apart the number of drown- < ing fatalities that are recorded every 1 Christmas and New Year is really .< appalling. ' - . For some Christmas is a sad, sad, ; time. Its memories are so pitful con- j earning some episode connected with < jt,. and though they are brave and < bright for the sake of others they can- 1 not help recalling it. ‘ < Please, I beg of you, take iny word J of warning anti-do not Tic careless when •) boating and swimming this festive j season. ; Miss Mary Pauline Foljambe (a re- } hi five of Lord Liverpool) accompanies ( Lord and Lady Liverpool to New Zea- < bind. She is said to he '■mod-looking, \ young, accomplished, and fond of ] sport, and is keenly looking forward to s life in New Zealand. She is a grand- \ daughter of Dr Edward War re, the * famous headmaster of Eton. Both the ' r Countess of Liverpool and Miss Fol- t jambe are extremely fond of music, 1 s and the former was a talented violin- | Ist. -JTliose who are in a position to ! a know, state that Lady Liverpool will ; ‘ c ' a s s;

be but little short of an ideal Governor’s wife, being exceedingly kindhearted and approachable, as well as being gifted with much tact.

This sirmmer the weather in Gis-

borne has been most passing strange. The usual cry of-the women is : “I have not a rag to my back, for instead of wearing summer things I have been forced to live in autumn tailor-mades, and now 1 am ashamed to be seen in

any of them.” Nevertheless Thursday afternoon’s weather was quite acceptable for the Sweet Pea Show and the ladies were able to don some pretty frocks. The afternoon tea dispensed l by members of the Cook County Women’s Guild was much appreciated, i Mi’s H. Mann and Miss Williams were the lady judges.

I A prize given by the “Gentlewoman,” a Lozidon -journal, for the ; best definition of a lady was won by the following effort: — “To be a lady means rightly to be ! a gentlewoman who shows by her every | word and action a sweet and gentle dignity with a gracious charm of manner. A woman whose heart is pure and true, who is tender towards all ■suffering, who sympathises witli tliosS j in tvoub’e and is ever ready to give ' that which costs her some effort and self-denial. A lady thinks no work derogatory, and no one is deemed too low to receive courtesy and kindness. She is pure and good in every detail of life, a true friend, and a ‘ministering’ angel’ in sorrow and in sickness.”