SYDNEY GOSSIP.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 44, 31 October 1891, Page 540

SYDNEY GOSSIP.

Dear Bee, October 8. The last month has been an unceasing round of gaieties for Sydney society. Last week, being • race week,’ many were the invitations issued as a finish to a day at Randwick. At the races Government House was well represented on each occasion. Lord and Lady Jersey, accompanied by Lord and Lady Kintore, being present three days, our Governor’s ‘ Lady ’ wearing on the first day an applegreen silk draped with black lace, and profusely trimmed with pale pink rosebuds, a small black lace and jet bonnet with unmounted pink rosebuds. Lady Kintore wore a handsome black silk, with border of dark heliotrope shot silk, and edgings of steel beads. Lady Chas. Scott who generally dons something bright, was in cornflower blue silk over ecru faille, with gilt trimming. At Randwick, during ‘ race week,' varied, indeed, are the costumes seen, some startling and many handsome. On one occasion a Melbourne heiress visiting in Sydney, was attired in an effective-looking gown of mauve silk, patterned in white, trimmed with guipnre embroidery and white chiffon frills. Her toque was simply a wreath of dark Parma violets, with green velvet bows. Though the weather is really too warm for dancing, balls

have been numerous, and there are more to come. At the Government House ball the hostess was gowned in a rich buttercup silk. Among other noticeable dresses, one I liked was a dead white silk, the train and fronts covered with ostrich feathers ; another of pompadour brocade, in pink and blue, trimmed with crepe of the two shades. A pale greysilk, with pattern thickly embroidered in steel beads, and finished with shrimp pink chiffon, was worn by a tall, striking-looking woman and was most becoming. Sateens are to be much worn this season, so I am told at the various drapers’ establishments. The finish of this material is now so perfect that it is a difficult matter to tell the difference between this spring’s sateen and the popular figured foulards of last. Of muslins there are many varieties, and they are all so pretty it is hard to make any choice. Indeed, nothing looks so dainty made up as a simple spotted muslin, and for those who do not care for spots there are others prettily flowered. I see they are mostly made with a belt, and having a deep full kilting round the hips, if not of the same material as the dress, of lace. Gloves, excepting the gauntlets, which are seen in all shades, can hardly be called pretty or becoming. Cream silk have checks, and very large checks, too, of many colours -tartan plaid. They seem just the sort of thing to make the hand look larger than in reality, and that no lady is anxious to do. We have quite a distinguished visitor staying in Sydney just now. I refer to Mr Henry Savage Landor, artist, grandson of the poet, Walter Savage Landor. He is on bis way home from an extended tour through America, Japan, Mongolia, Corea, and the Kurile Islands. As he has been four years on his travels, Mr Landor has collected quite a mass of interesting sketches and curios. He is at present engaged on a portrait of our veteran —Sir Henry Parkes. No doubt you have heard of the coming marriage of Miss Blanche Daveney in Melbourne. The wedding is to take Klace at the end of the present month, the bridegroom being Ir A. H. MacArthur.

Aroha.