Zealandia.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 529, 9 February 1889, Page 8

Zealandia.

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—Miss Craig is a perfect pourtrayer of the roller art. She can skate backwards with quiet, graceful ease. —Miss Dickey's skating is as pretty as her pink flannelette costume. The latter is simply \LJss Hunt's pretty white costume, black hat trimmed with daisies, and long white inlk gloves, are very effective. —Miss White is a fearless skater. We admire her manner of manipulating the wheels muchly. Her cream toilette is immensely becoming. — Miss Eobinson charms the patrons cf the Zealandia with her graceful gyration*. Her gown of myrtle-green, with cream silk blouse, is also much admived. —Miss Mitchell »oes in for the lon- curve movement. Everyone envies the grace with which she accomplishes the difficult feat. _ Her gown of navy-blue, with poppy-red blouse, in becoming in the extreme. (..•EXTLEW EX. —Mr' Chambers doesn't find waltzing on asphalt trying, even after tenderly Renting himself four times. There's no accounting for tasta. —Mr Davis adopts flannels at, ihe open-air rink. We should advise all clever skaters to follow suit; they attract attention f~ proficiency which might otherwise be overlooked. —Mr llussei's one-let; business doesn't seem to answer on anything but kauri. Thpve's a wildness in struggling to maintain the dignity of the feat which detracts I'rom the poetry of it. —Mr Fraser astonished the Zealandiaifccs with his backward skating the other night. Kis descents to asphalt were accomplished in demisomersault fashion. They don't understand the poetry of motion there yet. Si'ECTATORS. —Miss Scott : White Indian muslin gown ; pale cream blouse ; cream tulle hat, with tea-rose garniture. —Mis* Green : Pink cambric gown, panelled with embroidery/" .-t/ifcx Gem hat, banded and trimmed with white ribbon. —Miss Peyton : Sea-foam dress of soit clinging material, grey Liberty silk tight fitting jacket ; suede gloves: grey tulle hat finished with oats. —Miss Taylor : Stylish check costume combining grey and white, the draperies looped by a handsome bow of the dual shades ; black bonnet, with a cluster of white and black currants ornamenting the front trimmings ; black glove.-