NELSON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 34, 22 August 1891, Page 300

NELSON.

Dear Bee, August 7. I must write you another short letter since you have been so kind as to acknowledge my last. We went to a concert given in aid of the Athletic Company. It was arranged on an entirely new principle, the performers being seated on the stage, at the beginning of the evening, as in a drawing room, tastefully and cheerfully set out. A small table was set with cakes and coffee, to which the performers Helped themselves when so inclined. Mrs and Miss Greenfield played a duet which all enjoyed, owing to the unsurpassed method in which these ladies play. Miss Fell accompanied several songsters. Mrs Houlker, Mrs Walker, Miss Pratt and Miss Reeves all sang and were deservedly encored. Messrs Grace, Fell, Zimmerman, Caltz, Joynt, Wix, Gilbert, Kirkly and some others also lent their aid. I must describe some of the performers dresses first. Mrs Houlker wore a black lace with pale green ribbons ; Mrs Walker and Miss Pratt in white; Miss Reeves, white; Miss Greenfield, red ; and Miss L. Fell in a lovely plain dove-coloured dress, slashed sleeves with black velvet, and a bag to match hanging at her side. Among the audience I noticed Mrs Percy Adams, dark blue satin with red plush opera cloak ; Mrs Watts, handsome dark brown mantle, white cap with pearls and pale heliotrope feather; Mrs Fell, dark cashmere with bonnet and cape to match ; Mrs Roger Kingdon, handsome black silk, black velvet bonnet with ospreys and tan suede gloves; Miss Curtis, a perfect fitting tweed gow n with hat and gloves to match ; Miss Watson, handsome seal half mantle, tweed skirt; Mrs Patterson in red skirt, red pongee body and red poppies in hat ; Miss Sybil Brown, in dark blue dress trimmed with fur plush. Professor Anderson is to give an exhibition of magic tricks, but as he attacks the ladies in the front seats, they are mostly loth to go, as few of us care to sit and expect him to extract eggs, etc., from our hair, do we ? I believe he is very good.

Mollie.