SYDNEY GOSSIP.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 40, 4 October 1890, Page 12

SYDNEY GOSSIP.

Dear Bee, September 20. There has been quite a host of dinners at Government House. Details of" eating festivities’ do not, however, call for description. The best of them are dedicated to man, the selfish biped who always shuts our sex opt of his most gorgeous banquets. A somewhat strange custom Ts prevalent in Sydney among Society people. It is quite a common thing for ladies to obtain gallery tickets for the smaitest banquets as lookers on. In the dear old childish days I remember having a tendresse for seeing the animals feed at the Zoo, but I have long since forfeited my interest in the mastication feat; it would be quite beyond my limited power of endurance to watch great mountains of trifle vanish without breaking the tenth commandment. Besides, an eating man is not anatomically interesting. Vice-Regality has been in great demand of late. The principal Carringtonian event was, of course, the opening of the Anglo-Australian Art Exhibition, a smart affair, painfully ernshy. Those who arrived early alone caught a glimpse of the exhibits, some of which are very lovely. In most of these high-toned shows no one seems to think of anything but the opening ceremony, performed, of course, by Lord Carrington. Ah, well ! Homer sometimes nods ; the frame must of necessity sometimes exceed the picture in value. I noticed three or four painfully scraggy frocks that could hardly have measured two yards round the skirt ; the fronts were quite plain, and the backs fell in straight folds. Several of the new Vandyke gowns were conspicuous. These eccentricities are most exquisitely embroidered, and finished at the edge with a deep fringe of heavy silk. (hie in gold colour embroidered in the same shade, and the fringe some four inches deep, shone like bullion. Another idea was tossed up of a fabric containing three distinct materials, all woven into one width. First there was a stripe several inches wide of velvet, then another of bengaline, and lastly blue cashmere.