The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-08

! ham, who wore pretty gown of Ores
den silk and chiffon.
The Princess wore a gown of black
satin chiffon combined with gold lace,
and Mrs Vos was also in black satin
with a scarf of deep rose-colored chif-
!! fon.''
In a San Francisco paper of late
date the following appears under
New York dateline:
princess Kawananakoa of Hawaii
| is receiving much social attention here.
Last Friday night she was one of the
notables in the boxes at the Manhat-
tan Opera House, wearing gown of
black satin chiffon combined with gold
lace on another night she and sew
eral other ladies who possess titles,
among them the Baroness Won
Ryhiner. president of The Califor-
| MANS" occupied a box at theater,
| the press agent of which gave the fol-
| lowing description of her to the news
/ papers: Princess Kawananakoa, nee
Abigail Campbell, is a very pretty
| Scotch girl, twenty-four years Old
wife of H. r. H. David, next in sue
| cession to the late throne of the late
| King Kalakaua of Hawaii: is heiress
| to the largest sugar plantations in the
whole Sandwich Islands; but she is
not Kanaka.
| Mr.. and Mrs. w. Z. Adams have
taken for one year the DR.. Camp resi-
dence at the foot of Pacific Heights.
~ ~ ~
| Among the announcements of the
week, none probably was read with
! interest by a wider circle of friends
| than that of the marriage of Canon
| Alexander Macintosh and Miss Maud
| f. Witherby. This took place Novem-
Der Z The following is an account of
! it written by one who was present:
1.-THE sun came out for a few minutes
on a very gloomy day in November
! last to shine upon a very quiet we'd
| ding in the Parish Church of st. Luke,
/ Richmond, Surrey, when Canon Alex
ander Macintosh of ST. Andrews
cathedral, Honolulu. was united in
| holy matrimony to Maud Edith,
daughter of Mr. J. Witherby of Lon
/ don. The ceremony was performed in
! a most earnest manner by the vicar,
the Rev Paul NJ. Chamney, in the
presence of a goodly number of the
relatives and friends of the bride and
bridegroom Canon and Mrs. Mackin-
F.! tosh, on leaving the church, proceeded
! at once to Paddington, where they
took the Plymouth Express train for
| Torquay."
Canon and Mrs. Macintosh were ex-
| pected back in Honolulu before the end
of the year, but it is now possible that
they may not return for several
months.
In spite of many revolts and many
conspiracies against his despotic sway,
Ned Greenway has for many years
been San Francisco's social arbiter,
and he has been a tyrannical one, too.
| Hence within his realm his birthday
affairs have always been looked to as
establishing both what is and what
/ viii be. 1t is this fact that gives in
terest to the following from San Fran
cisco Town Talk regarding it:
1.-The fact that Ned Greenway cele-
brated his birthday with a dance in
stead of hyphenating it with dinner
dance, as has been his custom, has
given the pessimists a handle upon
/ with to hang their representations
| that this is to be a lean winter. There
are already about twenty subscription
dances in view, but unless a season is
plentifulIy larded with private dinner
dances it is not considered a banner
year / had heard so much about re-
| trenchment that I fancied the opening
i ball of the season would show mark
| ed decline in extravaganza ball gowns,
| but I am told that there have never
! before been so many expensive frocks
| trailed across San Francisco ball
room. Mrs. H. NJ. A. Miller in heavy
cream satin, embroidered in gold that
/ might have been a drapery in some
XVI century palace, was the most
| richly ornate figure on the floor Mrs.
| Gus Taylor who is never negligible in
| matters of dress, is always sure to
furnish at least one spangled sensa-
ton. but she is at present in mourn