CHRISTCHURCH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 1, 7 January 1893, Page 19

CHRISTCHURCH.

Dear Bee, December 28. Quite one of the nicest dances of the season was that given at Avonbank. But I must tell you of the DRESSES AT MRS OTTERSON S BALL. the one I refer to. Mrs Otterson wore white striped satin, and looked lovely : Mrs Pilman. an exquisite dress of palest salmon pink and silver brocade, chiffon trimming, and bunches of pink roses: Mrs Heat in Rhodes, handsome white satin brocade with rich iace : Miss Rhodes, white satin, black velvet sleeves; Mrs Lascelles, pale blue silk, pink trimming: Mrs Archer, black silk and lace, trimmed with heliotrope: Mrs Fenwick (Dunedin*, lovely dress of white satin. Watteau bow. trimmed with heliotrope ; Miss CampbelL effective gow n of green silk, with ported sleeves of pink silk and ruching at the foot, band* of pink velvet on the bodice: Miss Maude Helmore. pretty pink silk with passementerie. corselet bodice. Others there were Miss Baynton. Mrs Ogle. Mrs Lomax Smith. Misses Cowlishaw. Gray. Hutton. Guy. Reeves.. E. Tabart. Stopford. Clarke. Turnbull. Moorehouse. and Pickering. At MRS HELMORE'S DELIGHTFUL GARDEN PARTY the hostess wore navy silk, black lace mantle, and bonnet : Miss Helmore. cream gown, yoke of heliotrope veiled in lace. Watteau bow; Miss M. Helmore. cream with coloured stripes, green velvet trimming, swathe b< It: Mrs Pitman, black silk figured grenadine nver pink silk with ruches of the same, small bonnet to match: Miss A. Rhodes, heliotrope crepon trimmed with black, hat. E upire style: Mrs P. Campbell, dark green costume, passementerie trimmings, black hat with clusters of roses, velvet strings: Miss Gray, pretty white muslin figured with heliotrope, silk <wathe belt, large white hat with heliotrope : Mrs C. Clark, claret ottoman cord and brocade dress, lace mantle : Mrs Macßae, vijux rose figured cashmere : Mrs Gould, black silk jetted mantle Mrs Tibart. black silk, lace mantle and bonnet : Miss TibarL fawn striped dre*-*. Another dance, this time A BALL GIVEN BY' MRS MEARES, who looked exceeding well in brown velvet, trimmed with soft pink silk: Miss Meares. very charming pale pink >ilk. bodice puffed with white sleeves of tne same: the Hon. Mrs Parker, white siik trimmed with lovely lace, diamond stars; Mrs Stead, tlicksilk and lace, diamond ornaments: Mrs Wills, pink satin brocaded with lover's knots and puffed sleeves of claret velvet: Mrs Heaton Rhodes, cream brocaded merveilleux : Mrs Thomas, cream satin, made wi h corselet bodice: Mrs Denniston, light olive gre*n silk, gold trimming: Mrs A. Anderson, pale blue satin : Mrs Common, vienx rose satin. Vandyke iace ; Mr* Mairae. dull green Ibrocade: Mrs J. Peacock, black satin, pink and white cap ; Mrs Graham. bUck, trimmed with lace and jet: Miss Garrick, pale heliotrope and silver: Mrs Chambers, pale blue; Miss A. Meeson. electric blue trimmed with gold braid: Miss Kinsey, lemon-coloured surah : Miss Baynton. vieux-ro-e silk, corselet bodice, jewelled trimming : Miss Way. yellow silk, black lace : Mrs Rhind. black silk and net. steel-dotted ; Mrs W. Cott»-rilL Mrs Gibbs. MissesCowhshaw. Turner. Black. Loughnan. Ronalds. Blouse. Thomas. WittnalL Reeves. Hardy. Johnston, Maude. Bullock. Tabart. Messrs Peacock. Gibbs Common. Hodgson. Buchanan. Webb. Lane. Wood. Deamer. Weston, and many more, including several officers of H.M.S. Goldfinch. Mrs Rhodes, E.mwood. Miss Rhodes, and Mr and Mrs Heaton Rhode* have just returned from England looking all the better for their trip. Bi'hop «nd Mrs Julius, one son and two daughters leave in the Doric next week fora trip Home. They expect to be absent abjut six months.

Dolly Vale.