PERSONAL A GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 67, 1 March 1911, Page 7

PERSONAL A GENERAL

Napier, Feb. 28. A Dinner Party. Dr. and firs. Henley, who leave to-day for England, entertained a number of friends to dinner at the Masonic Hotel on Saturday evening. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Hector Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Bernau, Dr. and Mrs. Ziele, Dr. and Mrs. Edgar, Mrs. Ernest Dixon. Miss Lever, Miss Harvey, Dr. Harvey, Mr. E. H. Williams, and Mr. Murdock. A Yankee Tournament. A Yankee tournament was held on the Hawke’s Bay Courts last Wednesday. Several of the local dubs competed, and a good day’s play was enjoyed. Lunch and afternoon tea provided by the lady players was much appreciated by all. A number of visitors were present. The games resulted in a | win for Miss Nevill and Mr. Ching. • A Wedding. Two well-known families in the North Island were united in mar j riage at All Saints’ Church, Pal- ( merston North, last Wednesday, i when Miss Alys Riddiford. second daughter of Mrs. Frederick Riddiford, was married to Mr. Henry j Fitzherbert Arkwright, of Overton, ■ Masterton, third son of Canon Arkwright. Newbury. England. The service, whicn was fully choral, was conducted by the Rev. G. V. Kendrick. The choir consisted of girls from the Craven School, who thus paid a graceful compliment to the bride, an ex-Craven I girl. Their singing was a pleasing | feature of the ceremony. The bridesmaids were Miss Cushla Riddiford (sister of the bride). Miss Olga Levett. Miss Mildred Fitzherbert (cousin of the bridegroom), Miss Mary Munro, Miss Dorothy Christie, and two small girls, Dorothy Levin and Cecile Keiller.

Mr. Leo. Ackland( of Christchurch, acted as best man, whilstthe groomsmen were Messrs J. Gaisford, J. Ashworth, D. Riddiford, D. Forster Pratt, and two small boys, Billie Cooper and | Brian Keiller. 1 The bride was given away by her brother-in-law, Mr. W. Bunny. The bridal procession was a very charming one. The bride looked | lovely in her gown of rich ivory I satin Duchesse. The skirt had a panel in front of rose Venetian point lace, and lace of the same kind draped the bodice in fichu style. Tne Empire train was caught to the skirt with a Louis XVI. bow of satin. A plain tulle veil worn over a wreath of orange blossom completed a most charming toilet. The bridesmaids wore dresses of ivory mousseline de satin draped in ninon,. large emerald green hats, the brims caught up in front with two roses of emerald green ninon and silver tissue. They carried black Directoire sticks with bunches of pink roses tied with emerald green streamers. The two little girls wore wreaths of pink roses instead of hats and, the two tiny groomsmen wore Eton suits and tall silk hats. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Arkwright leave shortly on a visit to England. Items of Interest.

During her visit to Dunedin Miss Amy Castles visited the nuns .of St. Joseph’s Dominican Convent and sang several songs to the delight of those present. The nuns

presented Miss Castles with a beautifully inscribed book of New Zealand scenery. Miss Sylvia Fell (Nelson) is visiting Mrs. Lindo Levien. Miss Logan has returned from Taupo. Miss Harvey, sister of Dr. Harvey, has arrived from Ireland on a visit to New Zealand. Mrs. Alec Williams, Miss M. Williams, and Mrs. and Miss Busby left by the Rimutako on Sunday for Tokomaru. Mr. and Mrs. John Moore, Miss Moore, Dr. and Mrs. Henly and family. Messrs. Ronald Williams. F. Maclean, D. Sunderland, and the Rev. W. Robinson leave to-mor-row* for Wellington, where they join the Kaipara en route for England.

t Mr. and Mrs. T. Campbell and ' Miss Campbell. Karori, are visit- ; ing Napier.

, Will it Reach New Zealand? j The late eminent physician, Sir I Benjamin Richardson, used to pro- » phesy in a kindly spirit that the I dress of women would undergo a ' radical change to meet the more i active conditions of an age in which it is admitted that great numbers of them must work, and that the rest may do so if thej' choose. That this will be so is a reasonable probability, and already the useful and practical coat and skirt costume has become almost a uniform for morning wear by active women of all classes.

There is, however, a new departure promised from Paris which may (or may not) prove a further step in the evolution of fashion in the direction of utility. The same man-dressmaker to whom the offi cial residence of the Prime Minister was lent last year by its present occupants for a show of his goods —presumably, therefore, a person of influence—has announced that he intends to launch in the spring a walking costume for ladies of which the essential feature is to be —trousers I ? The pantaloons are not to be close-fitting, but of the Turkish form, rather full, and gathered in round the ankles. Obviously this will be rather an enlargement than a diminution of the silhouette of a great many women, who look how rather as if they had packed both limbs into one division of reasonably wide “trou-trous.” This present mode is ridiculous, for it has neither grace nor comfort. The promised innovation, on the contrary, while it might make little difference in the matter of grace, would at least be in a sensible direction, for it is only reasonable that each limb should be separately clothed.