THE HUTT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 24, 11 June 1892, Page 597

THE HUTT.

Hear Bee, Welungton, June 3. I think you will like a few lines to give you a true, particular, and accurate account of the enchaming ball we have lately enjoyed here. One feature worthy of notice was the first appearance in public of no less than four young brides, all of whom have taken up their new homes at the Hutt. They were Mrs George Pearce, Mrs Colbeck, Mrs Thomas Wilford, and Mrs Edmund Bunny, the marriages of which have lately appeared in the Graphic. With the exception of Mrs Wilford, who wore a lovely white silk gown, trained, with front of buttercups, they wore their wedding gowns, and very well indeed all looked in the new dignity of their long trains, etc. DRESSES AT THE HUTT BALL. Lady Hector wore a beautiful gown of brown satin, the train and bod ice of the satin, and the open front of white lace flounced ; Lady Buckley, a very handsome old gold satin, trained, and trimmed with basque fringe of black beads and black lace ; Mrs Parker, a pretty sky blue brocade, trained, and trimmed with lace ; Mrs Fitzherbert, old gold front, and Watteau train of green ; Mrs Scales, a pink satin petticoat veiled with terra-cotta net, Watteau train of terracotta ; Mrs Purdy, white satin covered with black figured net; Mrs Jackson, black; Mrs Jackson (jun.), white net; Mrs Whitehead, pale pink ; Mrs Treadwell, black lace ; Mrs Howden, white silk trimmed with lace ; Mrs Heaton, black ; Miss Fancourt, black ; Miss Hector, white silk trimmed with ribbons ; Miss Wilford, a pretty mauve net trimmed with violet velvet; Miss Hilda Williams, a soft cream surah silk trimmed with lace, gold girdle ; Miss May Gore, a pretty white gown, trained and trimmed with chiffon ; Miss Izard cream gauze and Howers ; Miss Lilian Izard, pink silk with Swiss belt of silver ; Miss Cooper, pink Liberty silk trimmed with bands of black velvet ; Miss I. Cooper; white silk and chiffon : Miss Dransfield, a pretty pink watered silk, trained ; Miss Barron, bright red satin trimmed with gold and red gauze ; Miss Barnett, white, and her sister cream figured with blue halfmoons ; Miss Jackson, a very pretty pale lemon coloured silk gown; Miss Allan, black, and her sister lemon silk ; Miss Johnson was in pink ; another sister in red, and another in a white gown ; Miss Hammerton, in pale blue gauze ; and Miss Kennedy in white. Amongst the sterner sex I noticed Drs. Purdy and Whitehouse, and Messrs Bunny, Fitzherbert, Pearce, C. Cooper, A. Cooper, Baldwin, Woolridge, Gardiner, Wilford, Colbeck, G. Knight, Hall, Gore, Vogel, Hector, Leckie, Todd, Barnes, Jackson, Treadwell, Hodson, Weatt, Anson, Atkinson, Hume, Howden and Allan. Several extras were played at supper-time by Miss Ida Cooper, Miss Allan, Mr Todd and Mr Wilford. King’s band supplied the rest of the music, but I regret to say that it was not quite up to the mark. They are generally so very good, but that night they displayed a lack of interest in their music. This dance was the first of a series of subscription dances which are to be given at the Hutt during the winter. A great many of the guests were, as you may see, visitors from town, most of them staying the night with their friends here. There was one large drag also from town, which conveyed most of the gentlemen back somewhere about the wee sma’ hours of the following morning. The success of this will make us look forward with still greater pleasure to the others, which will be a boon to our quiet little township during the winter. ANOTHER DANCE. A few days before Mrs Robert Parker gave a very pleasant danee to young people. It was chiefly given for her son, Mr Harry Parker, who left a few days afterwards for college after the vacation. For this, too a great many young folks came out from town and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We still have a great many visitors here on Sundays, when MacNab’s gardens are generally the great attraction. For my own part I prefer the gardens when the fruit is ripe and the flowers in full bloom.

Goneril.