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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 49, 3 December 1892, Page 1201

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Dear Bee, November 24. At THE TENNIS COURTS a number of pretty frocks were displayed. Mrs G. W. Mclntosh looked extremely well in a pretty fawn gown trimmed with ruchings and braiding, and shot silk vest, fawn hat: Miss Mellish wore her stylish fawn and heliotrope gown, and becoming black lace hat with pink ; Mrs Clouston was pretty in fawn corduroy with velvet of a deeper shade and sacque back coat, broaobrimmed reefer hat with white silk scarf; Mrs How ard wore black sacoue back coat and skirt over a cream silk blouse, handsome black picture hat with feathers ; Mrs Hiley was looking well in navy blue ; Miss Florrie Smith was much admired in a grey and white striped skirt, and cream shirt, small sailor hat with grey and white band, tan shoes; Miss Smith looked well in cream veiling. large fancv straw hat with purple lilacs and ribbons: Miss Tina McLauchlan. fawn dress with corselet belt trimmed with gold guimpe, pretty fancy straw white hat; Miss Maggie heliotrope cotton with white vest, white hat; Mrs Orr. navv blue and white striped gown, fawn hat. I also remarked Mesdames Mowat, J. Mowat, Sinclair. Conolly. Griffiths. X. Griffiths. Smith. Horton. Thompson. Blundell. Wilson. Lucas. Snodgrass. Kobin - son. Hiley. and Misses Pasley, Mellish, Weber, Moore. Horton (two), Sinclair (two). Clarke, Coulson. Robertson, etc., etc. Among the men were Messrs Blundell. Gee. G. Seymour. H. Douslin, Rowe. Maclean. Kennedy. Pasley. Conolly. Griffith* (three). Clarke, etc., but a good many of our men were away at Picton playing in a cricket match there, in which they came off victorious. Friday MRS C. EARP GAVE AN AFTERNOON in her garden to Mrs H. Howard and Mrs H. Sharp, when there were a good many ladies present, the Misses M. and F. Smith and Miss B. Horton kindly helping to look after the guests all the afternoon. At the AGRICL LTI RAI. SHOW the competition for the prize given for the ladies' hacks ridden by ladies was watched with interest, but we were not surprised when it was given to Mr C. Fulton s Sindbad. ridden by Miss Bessie O’Leary. We all thought that Blucher was too old and too weedy to have taken second prize, but doubtless Miss Zoe Redwood’s riding had a great deal to do with it. Flywheel, ridden by Mrs Wragg. was very highly commended, but there again his rider’s perfect seat must have carried weight. Mis* McLauchlan was riding her own pretty black hack ; with the exception of Miss J. Chayton she was the only lady riding her own horse, and that a bona flde ladies’ hack. Miss Bessie O'Leary on the veteran Orient won the jump over five flights of hurdles. Mrs Burns on the handsome Captain Boison being a good second. Miss O’Leary's girth and stirrup strap broke between the last two hurdles, but she got over the last jump marvellously and then jumped off. I did not see many ladies’ gowns worthy of mention but among the few were Mrs Richardson, in a beautifully cut light tweed witn square-cut bodice filled in with puffings of dark heliotrope silk, while folds of the same silk outlined the short bodice, finishing in a knot at one side, becoming black straw hat with wreath of yellow roses and black guipure lace: Miss Pickering (who is staying at Erina) looked very well in greyish tweed with Eton coat over shot silk blouse, black hat with long white feather; Mrs Hanna, light tweed corselet skirt over cream frilled blouse and Eton coat, white reefer hat with cream silk : Mrs Clouston wore her pretty fawn corduroy costume; Miss Lilian Horne was all in white : Miss F. Smith looked very pretty in a simple white frock with silver buckle, small sailor hat; Miss K. Smith, becoming pink cotton, white hat: Mrs Mclntosh looked very well in navy blue with coral pink blouse and fawn hat; Mrs Goulter. well-fitting black gown and black hat with feathers; Mrs C. Earp, dark blue flowered gown with coffee coloured guipure lace, sailor hat; Mrs Ballard, light tweed with shot silk vest, Eton coat, white reefer hat ; Mrs R. McCallum, fawn gown with brown trimmings, hat to match with feathers; Mrs H. Howard, checked tweed with Eton coat over cream vest, stylish small sailor hat : Miss Blanche Waddy looked nice in navy blue with Eton coat over pale pink blouse: Miss Rees, white oroche gown, straw hat with cream tips ; Miss Chayton, fawn and brown costume ; Miss G. Chayton. fawn tweed, white hat ; Mrs Xorrey Griffiths, handsome black corded silk gown, made with full sleeves, small jet bonnet; Mrs L. Dodson, navy blue dress with white rings, sailor hat to match ; Mrs R. Dodson, pretty fawn dress and large hat with cream feather ; Mrs Lucas, black lace gown relieved with yellow, pretty hat with white silk trimming; Miss Direen looked very well in pink flowered pongee delaine, pretty hat with pink, and her sister, in cream flowereddress and cream nat. Among the men 1 remarked Messrs Chayton, C. Goulter, Richmond. C. Watt-. Richardson, Vavasour, Teschemaker (three), T. Redwood, Paul. Clouston, Snodgrass, Conolly, Hanna. J, B. Green, Y’oung. Bell (two). Mowat (three). Seymour (two), C. Earp, Gee. Ward (two). Kennedy, Rowe, P. Douslin. S. Allen (Wellington). Trevor. Dodson (six), Ward (two). Griffiths (two), C. Hodson, J. H. Smith. Jackson. Pollard. McCallum (two). Fulton (two). Soper (three). Lambert. Jefferies, C. Gregory. J. and F. Redwood. L. Redwood. Amongst those present AT THE FLOWER SHOW were Mesdames Muller. Griffiths, N. Griffiths, Rutherford. Mellish. Hack, and Misses Speed (two), all from Picton. Mrs Allen (Picton), Mesdames Ballard. Horton, Cleghorn. C. Earp, Snodgrass, Laicas. Masefield. Mclntosh, Blundell, Misses Alexander. Pickering, Waddy, Seymour (three). Smith (two). McLauchlan (two). Horton (two). Pasley. Mellish. Williams (two), etc., etc. Mrs Rutherford looked very well in chocolate flowered gown and pretty hat with terracotta silk and cream poppies and baby ribbon ; Miss Speed also looked very nice in navy blue figured silk, small sailor hat ; Miss M. Speed, dark brown costume with sacoue back coat over heliotrope blouse, small sailor hat; Mrs Mellish wore black with pretty lace mantle and most becoming bonnet with pink flowers; Mrs Stack wore a lovely black mantle with lace sleeves, and stylish black bonnet with yellow roses: Mrs Cleghorn, sage green gown, black hat with green feather: Miss Pickering looked very nice in grey tweed, sacque back coat over pink silk blouse, black reefer hat trimmed with pinky yellow. Miss Alexander arrived to-day on a visit to MrsG. W. Mclntosh (National Bank) after spending a day or two in Picton.

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