NAPIER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 11, 14 March 1891, Page 12

NAPIER.

Charity.

( Delayed in transmission.) Dear Bee, February 20. The Caledonian Society have held their annual sports. There were about four thousand people present—a wonderful ciowd for us, you know, but I cannot say that the gathering could be called altogether a fashionable one. Mrs G. I’. Donnelly wore a grey tweed tailor-made dress, black transpaient hat covered with snowdrops ; Miss Maud Donnelly, rich brown velvet ; Miss Sutton, white skirt, pmk blouse, and white chic hat with three narrow bands of black ribbon velvet ; Miss Hindmarsh, grey checked gown ; Mrs Kinross White, blue spotted zephyr, white waistcoat, black bonnet relieved with white wings; Mrs Wenley and her sister looked particularly stylish in their English gowns, the former in a pale pink and blue striped zephyr, white Tuscan straw hat with pink feathers ; and the latter in a cream muslin, with bows and bands of cream velvet, and broad-brimmed fancy straw hat with cream feathers ; Miss Binks (Auckland) was also wearing a very stylish gown of a brown checked material, brown silk sleeves and Medici collar, brown hat with brown feathers ; Miss Bendall, a visitor from the empire city, and at present on a visit to Miss Hitchings, looked very well in a fawn costume, with brown velvet sleeves and collar, and brown toque hat covered with daisies. I noticed Miss Lony Kettle and Miss Violet Bogle dressed in their kilts amongst the procession of dancers. Miss Nelson, at Tomoana, has given a small dance to a few favoured friends, and I suppose I had better make it my business to tell you about it. Mrs Ernest Tanner was decidedly the belle, and was gowned in a yellow tulle skirt, and corsage of satin to match ; Miss Nelson, the hostess, wore black ; Miss L. Nelson, white ; Mrs Warren, pale blue China silk ; Miss Eva Smith ( Dunedin), black ; Miss Nelly Tanner, white silk ; Miss St. Hill, black ; and Miss Lowry, white. Mrs Horace Baker has had another enjoyable tennis party. Amongst the guests I noticed Mrs Logan and her sister, Miss Taylor, Miss Rhodes, the Misses Sutton, Mrs Parker, Mr Charlie Kennedy, Mrs Sainsbury, Mrs Hamlin, Mrs George Williams, Miss Cotterill and Miss Hamlin. Have you heard the latest engagement—Mr Gore and Mrs L'lick Burke? Of course, this is Z/m topic of conversation here just now, as they are both so well known. Mr Frank Kennedy, the most popular man in all Napier, has, I am sorry to tell you, left us to take charge of the new branch Messrs Williams and Kettle are about to open in Gisborne. Amongst the many remembrances given him before leaving was a very handsome pipe and a silver tobacco case presented by his fellow clerks, alovely horse-shoe pin set in diamonds, a set of gold sleevelinks, a beautifully illuminated addiess, and I know not what besides. We are all busy wondering what our Amateur Opera Company will do without their shining light. The football field, too, and indeed all our athletic sportsand games have lost one of their warmest-hearted partisans. Mr Sydney Hoben is baek again amongst us. You will be glad to hear that his concert tour round the colony has been a great success, not only from a financial, but also from a social point of view. Christ church especially seems to have been the chief scene of triumph, forduringthe interval which elapsed between the two conceits held there a great many entertainments were given chiefly in honour of our talented pianist. Mr Macdonald and Miss Sutton have been, contrary to all expectations, very quietly married, and at such an early hour in the morning that there were no spectators. We were all so disappointed, all the more so after having heard such a lot about the lovely wedding gown which had arrived from England.