PERSONAL NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, 4 August 1921, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mrs Noel Bull, of Gisborne, is the guest of Mrs Johnston, at Carter ton. Mr and Mrs Roy Gawith (Masterton) are at present visiting Wellington* Mr and ?»frs H. T. Wood, of iMasterton, leff yesterday on a visit to Palmerston North. Mr and Mrs L. Waterreus have returned to Newman after a fortnight’s holiday in the Canterbury province. Miss Aline Barton (Featherston) is staying with Mrs George Gould, at Fendalton, Christchurch. Mrs R. W. Dyer and Miss Dyer are returning to Napier this week, having spent three months in Auckland. Miss Barbara Gould has returned to Christchurch from a visit to Featherston. where she was the guest of Miss Barton. Miss Dorothy McLean, formerly of Victoria College, Wellington, who has been studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, is returning to New Zealand shortly. Miss Nancy Scott, who is shortly severing her connection with St. .Matthew’s School for Girls in Masterton. | will probably pay a visit to England. The death occurred at Palmerston North on Monday of Mrs Hannah M. Rawstron, in her 76th year. She was the widow of the late Inspector Rawstron, of Burnley Borough Police Force, Lancashire. Miss Eileen Clifford, of Upper Hutt, j the gifted amateur actress, went ' south on Monday evening to join Miss I Rosemary Rees in her performance of | “The Mollusc” in Christchurch. Miss Clifford is to tour with the company. • Mrs J. T. M. Hornsby and Miss Telford have left Carterton, and at | present are living in Masterton. Mr ! and Mrs James Steel, who recently I returned from England, have taken . Mrs Hornsby’s house in Carterton. j At the residence of Mr J. K. Edie, at Martinborough, yesterday the welding took plate of Miss Mary Edie, I daughter of Mr John Edie, M.P. for , Bruce, to Mr George Gcden, of Nfcw Plymouth. The bride was given away by her father, and the Rev. John MacGregor was the officiating minister. I , ! The death occurred this week of ; Mrs Mary Ann Harris, an old and • respected settler of the Sanson district, at the age of 85. She had j many relatives in the Wairarapa, being a sister-in-law of Mr John Harris, Pukio, Mar tin borough,, and of the late I Messrs George, Edward and Charles Harris (Martinborough) and Walter j Harris (Lansdowne). The deceased I was a member of one ot the earliest [I families at the Hutt, and consequent- [! ly was known to many old settlers I throughout the Wairarapa.

Appreciative reference was made to the efforts of Mrs J. M. Coradine, M.8.E., and Mrs J. Caselberg, by the chairman (Mr Hugh Morrison) at the annual meeting of the Wairarapa Patriotic Association in Masterton yesterday. “I do not know what we would have done without their assistance, and the help of the women associated with them,” he said. “They got through an enormous amount of work, and I cannot let this opportunity pass without ouce more thanking them.” (Applause).

Mrs James Wall, who died at Porirua, was a very old settler, and had lived all her life in the Wellington district. Her parents, the late Mr and Mrs Thomas Floyd, arrived in Wellington on Anniversary Day, January 22, 1841. Mrs Wall spent the whole of her married life at Porirua. rearing a large family, who now number three sons and one daughter. The eldest son is Mr James Wall, of Te Kuiti, chairman of the Waitomo County Council.

On Wednesday a very pretty wedding took place at St. Andrew’s Church, Hastings, when Miss Mary Russell Burr, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Patrick Burr, of Hastings, was married to Mr Charles Athol Williams, of Te Ante. The ceremonv was performed by the Rev. P. R am . say. The bride, who was given awav by her father, was attired in a very pretty frock of satin and silver lace with touches of shell pink, the beauty ul veil forming a train. She carried a lovely bouquet of almond blossoms, cyclamen, snowdrops, and asparagus fern. The Misses Joyce and Isabel Burr, sisters of the bride, were ti e attendant maids, they being dainty frockod in dresses of primrosecot taffeta, and primrose veils, with wreaths and bouquets of pale pink japonica and almond blossom. Mr ri? i W j iiamS ." as best rnan > an d Mr Falkland Gardiner groomsman. After the ceremony a reception was held at Netherton ” Later the happy cou-I pie left on their honeymoon, the brid. travelling in a smart naw coat and Skirt blue fox furs, and toque with touches of blue.

There was applause not only before but behind the curtain at His Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland, on a rc-ent night. At the interval there came a sound of elapping from the Stage which made the audience wonder . It was Miss Vera St. John and Mr Tom Campbell receiving fc .citations, Miss St John, who plays Jessica, Shylock’s daughter, in “The M-rchant of Venice,” had just run av ay to be married to Lorenzo, the curtain dropping on the rage and grief of the deserted father. As a matter of fact, Miss St John had already that day been quietly married ii reality to Mr Campbell,, the chief mechanic of the Allan Wilkie Con-.-pi ny. The pair were warmly com g: alula ted, and were handed a handsi me present. Then the play proceeded.