WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 20, 14 May 1892, Page 501

WELLINGTON.

Dear Bee, May 4. From all accounts we may expect a very gay session, and already there is great talk of the coming winter frivolities, and friends from all parts of New Zealand seem to have quite made up their minds to visit us then. We are therefore hoping that Mr Walter Bentley’s scheme of keeping the Opera House occupied throughout the year will work successfully, for during the session it would be greatly appreciated by those in search of amusement. DRESSES AT THE LEAP YEAR CONCERT. This concert was a most charming affair. The ladies are to be congratulated on their great success, for everything went off without a hitch, and the large and critical audience were highly delighted. Mrs Holt and Miss M. Gore played the accompaniments. Mrs Holt wore a black lace evening gown trimmed with mauve chiffon and mauve ribbons ; Miss Medley, cream figured gown with side sash of cream moire ; Miss Gore, black, with front of yellow and yellow chiffon frills ; and her sister, white with yellow chiffon trimming ; Miss George wore white, and also Miss Holt, and Miss Kennedy black. Miss Henry, I believe, was to have played, but was too ill to appear. In the audience were Mrs Pynsent (who has recently returned from Home), Mrs Medley, Mrs G. Beetham, Mrs E. Reid, Mr and Mrs Wardrop, Mr and Mrs Rous Marten, Miss Dransfield, the Misses Cooper, Miss Hart, Miss Knight, Miss Graham, Mr and Mrs Gore, Miss Stowe, Mrs Edwin, the Misses Harding, Miss Alice Grace, Miss McClean, Miss P. Smith, Miss Hector, Miss Macdonald (Nelson), and many others.

I lately heard of a leap year concert in another part of New Zealand, but gentlemen were not even allowed to take part in the programme. I fancy I prefer our way, for one can hardly introduce instrumental music without the aid of the sterner sex.

Ruby.