Our Looking Glass

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 23, 4 June 1892, Page 568

Our Looking Glass

Miss Myra Kemble was one of the most stylish and attractive ladies in Queen-street (Auckland) the other day. She wore a tasteful and well fitting fawn tweed gown with brown spots and trimmed with brown velvet, and pretty fawn and brown hat, and crossbar veil. Mrs J. M. Brigham wears an elegant cos-

tunie of seal brown trimmed with embossed plush, sealskin jacket, and dainty little brown and gold bonnet. Miss Brigham looks very pretty in a light fawn dress and jacket to match, the latter trimmed with sable, large and jaunty fawn hat.

A Palmerston correspondent writes :— ‘ Mrs H. S. Fitzherbert, who has not long returned from Wellington, is gowned in a handsome tweed dress, a lovely pelerine, and a large black hat trimmed with black feathers and knots of cream velvet.’

Mr Waddy, of the Bank of New Zealand, and Mrs Waddy, have returned to Picton, after a lengthy tour to the Lakes, and other places of interest in the North Island.

Mrs Ireland wears a beautifully-fitting grey tweed gown bonnet to match, and handsome sable pelerine. Misslreland is both neat and dainty in a dove grey gown, cloth jacket, and becoming little hat.

Miss Miller, who resides with Mrs Joseph Rhodes at Springhill, is creating quite a furore in Napier. She is an exceedingly pretty girl, and at ball, opera, or in the street, carries off the palm for beauty. She looks very well walking in a dark gown, scarlet Tudor cloak, and stylish hat. This young lady is at present staying with Mrs Balfour (Bank of New Zealand.)

Mrs A. Russell (Palmerston), is wearing a close-fitting coat with deep cape, and a small bonnet composed of black and white.

Mrs Hill’s lesidence, Upper Queen-street, was the scene of a pleasant little impromptu dance on Friday evening. Fun, waltzing, and supper made the sands of time sink very quickly, so that the evening was over ere the happy party realised it had fairly begun.

Writing from Napier, an excellent correspondent remarks :—* We have an heiress in our midst. Miss Hitchings quite by chance discovered her name amongst a list of missing heiresses. She set her lawyers to work to write Home for particulars. Meanwhile she is anxiously waiting for the result. We are all hoping this young lady will come in to a good fortune, for she is such a clever girl, such a devoted daughter, and such a favourite with us all that I am convinced everyone would be delighted to hear that the wealth she would so well spend has come to her.’

The ladies at Palmerston North are all out in their winter costumes now, so perhaps you would like to hear of some of them. Mrs Halliday is wearing a brown plaid dress with a double-breasted three-quarter jacket, and a black hat with feathers ; Mrs Abraham, in navy blue with white collar and vest, blue bat with red wing ; Mrs Munro, brown dress, and hat with feathers; Miss Slack plaid cape, Bond-street hat ; Miss Waldegrave, tweed dress, red cape, hat with feathers ; Miss Armstrong, daik dress, jacket with fur, Bond street hat ; Miss Randolph, grey dress, three-quarter jacket with beaver, stylish hat; Mrs Cohen, red corduroy dress, brown bat with red trimmings ; Mrs Tripe, brown dress, long plaid cape, Bond-street hat; Mrs Arthur Skerman, stylish red cloak edged with fur.

Mrs John Conolly, writes a Picton correspondent, of Blenheim, is spending a few days with her parents, Mr and Mrs (lard, of Rougemont. Picton people are always glad to see old familiar faces in their midst. Our little town is full of visitors, come down to go a-lishing, play football, see the shipping, and otherwise enjoy themselves in the fresh sea air.

Miss Lascelles has returned to Napier from Mrs Peacock's, ami is looking remarkably well. She was in town the other day in a navy blue gown, stylish sealette jacket, and exquisite brown velvet hat with feathers and the dearest little birds imaginable.

Mrs Pratt was in Palmerston the other day stylishly dressed in black, with small black hat trimmed with white.

Mrs A. E. Hyde, of the Grove (Picton) was a passenger to New Zealand by the Rimutaka. Mr Hyde, who preceded his wife to New Zealand by a few months, met Mrs Hyde in Wellington. They arrived in Picton on Friday the 20th, and were warmly congratulated by many of Mr Hyde’s old friends. They proceeded to their residence at the Grove on Saturday morning.

A BECOMING costume consisting of a fawn tweed gown, hat to match, amka scarlet three quarter cape, is stylishly worn by a Palmerston lady—Miss Waldegrave.

Mr W. H. Holmes, one of the new Government Audit Inspectors for the Auckland district, has taken Mr Percy Smith's late residence in Parnell, and goes to reside there immediately. Miss Holmes is staying with her brother.

Miss Ella Baker was in town the other day wearing a very stylish navy blue gown, and becoming navy blue Scarborough hat.

Miss Harvey (North Shore) looks well in a pretty navy blue dress, and stylish navy blue hat trimmed with old gold.

Miss Faulder looks handsome in a light brown tweed gown and Bond-street hat.

Mrs Isidore Alexander wears a beautiful gown of black merveilleux with bands of ribbon velvet, and little bonnet.

Mrs J. M. Butt looks well in a neat black cashmere gown braided with fine black braid, and small black bonne trimmed with flowers.

Mrs V. E. Rice looks nice in a tweed dress, black Tudor cape with yoke of astrachan, and small black bonnet.

Mrs G. Scott’s dress of red tweed trimmed with astrachan is very stylish, brightening the streets of Palmerston North.

Mrs Galwey, Hastings, is wearing a stylish navy blue gown made with three-quarter jacket, stylish black hat with white birds.

The many Picton friends of Mrs H. C. Seymour will be glad to see her out again after a severe attack of influenza, which has kept her indoors for the past few weeks.

Mrs Cave Brown is again visiting Hastings, and is staying at Flaxmere. She looks very stylish in a fawn gown, Tudor cloak to match, large hat with feathers.

Miss E. Wilson, of Palmerston North, looks well in a navy dress, navy sailor hat with red wing, and a very stylish Dorothy cape of pale grey invisible plaid.

Mrs Ernest Tanner has gone for the bunting season to Rangitiki. Mr Ernest Tanner accompanied her.

Mr AND Mrs Fitzroy have gone to Christchurch for a short time as a change from Hastings.