THE IMPERIAL COLONIAL CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 542, 24 June 1909, Page 3

THE IMPERIAL COLONIAL CLUB.

! Sir We'stby jPerceyal presided:at■;the. New Zealand house dinner at tho Imperial Colonial Club on May .7, when the Hon. AV. HallJones, lligh Commissioner for New Zealand, wa? tho guest of honour. Among those present .wore 'Lord - Ranfurly, Lord. Rosmead, Admiral the Hon. Sir E. lt. Fremantle, ;Dr. AWE. Collins, Dr. M'Call, Agent-General for .Tasmania, Mr. Lincoln Tangye, Mr,- ArtHur Willis, Col.: Harry Finn, and Mr. Louis l'harazyn. ..The- ' Chairman,, in proposing'; "the; toast of tho guest of -tho. evening,: coupled . with, that of Now: Zealand, said, that the Empire . movement was: one .'of 'paramount importance. He thought 'it tiKie' to 'say that New; Zealand was the pet'of the Imperial family—the Benjamin of the flock. Mr; Hall-Jones, in reply, spoke flatteringly of the object of the Imperial Colonial Club and its help in the causo of Imperialism. Miv Henniker Heaton, that ho had in his possession t-fic particulars 'of .an invention -by . which 60,000 words , an'hour, could. be transmitted to tho 'different'parts of the Empire. The cost' would be Is. per 12 words. : After .dinner a reception 'was. held in the drawing-room by Lady Rosraead, Mrs: Louis 'Pharazyn/ - and Mrs. Lincoln Tangye.' Lady Rosmead was .gowned in heliotrope satin, with a bertlie of. Mechlin lace, and wore diamonds rand pearts.' Mrs. Lincoln .Tangye;. was in I'amethyst-ombroidered . iiet .over a directoire gown of amethyst, satin; her orria,mentS 'were pearls. ' Mrs. Pharazyn wore bla6k chiffon taffetas with a tucker; of white 'tulle, and a handsome black and gold scarf. Mrs; Henniker Heaton wore black jetted net Her..daughter, Jliss Rose. Henniker Heaton, was in white spotted net over white satin; - Mrs; ..Grey' wore..'.white crcpo de chini,-th6 : Duchess de Lousada was in old rose' velvet, the Hon.. Mrs. Yorlto- Sevan's gown': was:'of grey filet net and satin' richly embroidered, La/iy A'Beckett was in black and white, Mrs, ' T. Murray-:Prior."(Q)., also wore black and white. Among others who" accepted invitations were the Hon. Mrs. Julian Byng, Lady Fremantle, Mrs., Frewen; Lord,' Lady Doughty '(Vic.), Lady Murray, Lady Tennant, 'Lady Mills (N.Z.), -Mrs.- T. A. . Coghlan, Mrs.,. Michie, ; Major ;and - Mrs. Philip Mrs. Mathers, Major Dudley Alexander, Mrs. Pri'mrose (Q..), Mrs. M'Burnoy (Q.)i Lady Mansfield Clarke, Mrs. and tho Misses Finn,- Mrs. Marsden,. Mrs..Stuart .Russell; the Misses Gilchrist, and the Misses Phyllis and Florette .Murray Prior. V Miss' Alya Bateman, Mr, Beaumont,, and Miss Pal-j gravo Turner wero the vocalists, and Mr. Eduard Parlovitz accompanist, in the very go6d musical programme arranged by Mr. Christie Murray. ,