CHRISTCHURCH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 6, 11 February 1893, Page 139

CHRISTCHURCH.

Dear Bee, February 2 That entertaining man. Max O’Rell. with his quaint ways of telling us of our faults, and where he stops speaking, an expressive gesture tells us plainly what he thinks, has left us to make others laugh and think too. lam sorry he has not a better opinion of English women, and I should like to remind him of his own words, • We are only different.’ MERIVALE HOUSE DANCE was very enjoyable. Mrs Malet received her guests in the large hall becomingly gowned in a handsome black silk; Miss Campbell wore black velvet wth full frills of lace on the bodice : Miss B. Campbell, white with large Watteau bow : the Misses Cowlishaw, in pretty w’hite dresses trimmed with lace ; Miss Burt (Melbourne!, black dress relieved with pink, and, what I am sorry to say is now becoming fashionable, her hair in a net: Miss Medley (Wellington!, black with touches of gold ; Miss L. Murray Aynsley, white silkand chiffon, with pearl passementerie; Miss Cox. a pretty heliotrope; Miss Stop ford, a very becoming black silk and net; Miss Ross a pretty pink gown ; Miss L. Turnbull, a pink brocaded silk; Miss Loughnan fisherman’s net over white silk with Watteau pleat; the Misses Bowen and Hennah in white ; Miss N. Maude, a sweetly pretty dress of heliotrope silk trimmed with chiffon ; Miss Helmore, pale pink nun’s veiling ; lhe Misses Lean. Pickering, Beswick. Cotterill, Delamain. Hill and others were present. Some of the gentlemen were Messrs Lean, Ross, Beswick, Clark#*, Mathias, Fenwick. Rolleston, Maude, Perry, etc. Polo gets more popular every week or the nearness of the match incites people to go and get some idea what chance our men w’ill have of winning the Cup. Mrs Stevens provided afternoon tea delicious and refreshing in its way, but think of ices and grapes as well. Among the spectators were Sir Maurice O’Rorke, Mr and Mrs P. Campbell, Mrs Heaton Rhodes, Mrs Willis, the Misses Rhodes. Mrs Stead, Mrs Alan Scott, Mrs A. Rhodes, Mrs Gould, Misses Tabart, Greenwood, Aynsley, Potts, Palmer, Thomson,

Dolly Vale.

[Thank you for so kindly falling in with our ways.—Bee.]