LADY’S LETTER FROM AUCKLAND

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1745, 16 August 1905, Page 43

LADY’S LETTER FROM AUCKLAND

(By “Myemo.”)

The Remuera Polo Ball held last Thursday in the Remuera Ball can only be described as a brilliant success. The decorations were mainly composed of polo accessories combined with quantities of greenery, the colours of the club being, of course, in evidence everywhere. Mrs Elraest Bloomfield wore black silk with front of white and gold embroidered chiffon and cluster of dark red roses on the decolletage; Lady Lockhart, rich hlack merveilleux with insertions over white silk, the bodice had a cream front, and was draped with lace caught at one side with a large crush rose; Mrs McCosh Clark, black Brussels net; Mrs Harry Horton, blue tucked silk with cream lace and cluster of roses on the corsage; Mrs Harry McCosh dark, ivory crepe de chine over white glace, the corsage of which was softened with lace and hanging sleeves of the same; Miss Millie Cotter, cream lace made up over white glace silk with wide pink Empire belt and touches of pink on the bodice; Miss Winnie Cotter, white figured silk with turqoise blue belt; Miss Lily Kissling, black taffetas with cream lace; Miss D'enniston, hlack with cream lace, tucker threaded, with narrow black ribbon; Mrs Southey Baker, cream spotted net made up over white silk with violet belt and clusters of. violets on the corsage; Miss Lloyd, white crepe d© chine with r»ale yellow ceinture and roses of the same shade on the corsage;. Miss Pearl McCosh Clark, cream net laced with satin ribbon made up over white silk: Miss Kitty Clark, soft white silk with lace tucker outlined with black velvet ; the Misses Stevenson (2); Miss Ethna Pierce : Miss Richmond ; Miss Bucklahd; Miss Morrin in her debutante frock of white silk ; the Misses Dawson (2); Miss Grierson in a cloudy shade of blue silk with deep white lace berthe edged with silver; Miss Green (Wellington), cream crepe de chine with pink roses ; Miss Lusk, hlack; Miss Fenton in a pretty shade of pink; Miss Norah G'orrie; Miss R-oyce (Dunedin) ; Miss Ruddock; Miss Towle and Miss Phyllis Boult, looking very sweet in her debutante frock of white silk, Miss Jessie Reed and many others.

- Mrs Buller, Remuera. invited a number of friends to tea last Wednesday afternoon, amongst them being Madame Boeufve, Mrs Le-uis Myers, Mrs Arthur Myers, Mrs and Miss Cotter, Mrs and Miss Thorpe, Mrs Houghton, Miss Hargreaves (Christchurch), Mrs McMillan, Mrs Browning and Miss Mowbray. Another tea party I have been to has been that given by Mrs Houghton, in Gladstone road, Parnell, to introduce her friend, Miss Hargreaves, from Christchurch, who is at present staying with her. During the afternoon songs were given by Mrs Parkes, Miss Hargreaves, Miss Florence Walker, Miss May Kissling and Miss White. Others invited were Mrs Lyons, Miss Grierson, Mrs Derry, Mrs Tewsley, the Misses Ireland (2), Mrs Harry Marsack, Miss Katie Nelson, Miss McDiarm’d (New Plymouth), Miss Green, Miss Aston, Mrs> Parkes and Miss Kent.

I do not remember for a long time past any event causing such, a- deep feeling of sorrow as has the death of Mr Charles Gillies (son of the late Mr Robert Gillies, who was at one time Superintendent of the Provincial District of Otago), which took place at his grandmother’s residence, “Birtley,” in Gladstone road, Parnell, last Tuesday morning, after an illness of some few days, the, results of a. chill caught on the golf links. Mr Gillies was one of our keenest sportsmen, and you will remember when he was hailed in golfing circles not only as the champion of NeAv Zealand but also for the whole of Australia as well. A kindly man, too, was Mr Gillies, although a great deal of it was perhaps covered by a rather blunt manner, and I could tell you of not a few cases he has helped "across the etile" in more ways than one. Our evening paper hero speaks of him as having lived a "clean life,” and with this in mind, as well as the light weight of years he carried—only 38 —one might have expected his illness would have passed over him, and left him stib amonggt us. But this was not to he, and last Sunday night complications set in, and the patient never recovered consciousness, but quietly and gradually breathed his last at dawn of Tuesday morning. One feels much for the mother, Mrs Robert Gillie s b who is herself in delicate health, as well as for the grandmother, Mrs Street, for with the tter the late Mr Charles Gillies had lived for some years past, and for the large numbers of relations in different parts of the colony, many of whom are in the Otago district. This all happening, too, in the midst of the preparations for Miss Emily Gillies* wedding, including a large ball to be given in honour thereof by Mrs Street, makes the whole occurrence doubly sad for the immediate relatives. August 10.