AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 7, 18 February 1893, Page 162

AUCKLAND.

Dear Bee, February 13. We had such a delightful afternoon at MRS A. KERR-TAYLOR’S AT HOME. There was an unusual number of pretty faces and pretty frocks, so that it is somewhat bewildering to try and remember them for your benefit. However, I will make a start with our fair hostess who looked young and pretty in a simple white gown. Her daughters wore white also, and rustic hats which were very becoming. I believe, though, that Miss Violet wore a navy skirt with white vandyked braid, white blouse. Amongst the crowd of guests were Mrs Dawson, of Arborfield, Ellerslie, in a wellfitting cream delaine flowered in blue and brown, corselet waist laced with blue, smart cream hat with ostrich tips; Mrs Alfred Nathan, lovely gown of ivory pongee silk with insertions of Valenciennes lace, chapeau en suite; Mrs (Major) George, handsome black silk ; Mrs W. Bloomfield was much admired in white ; Mrs Williams, black; Mrs Pritt, black silk grenadine over a black silk skirt, prettily made; Mrs A. Clark looked charming in cream silk figured in some pale shade; Mrs Davy (Symond-street) was chic in grey, jacket bodice opening over cream silk, black tulle hat; Mrs Sellers, black satin ; Mrs Mitchelson, dainty pink dress, with three bands of pink ribbon terminating in bows, forming the idea of a corselet bodice ; her daughter wore red; Mrs Nashelski, cream silky material flowered in a pale shade, becoming bonnet; her daughter was also very prettily frocked; Mrs Bilborough, very handsome slate-coloured silk ; Mrs T. Morrin looked chic in blue striped silk; Mrs Dufaur looked distinguce in grey cashmere with silk trimmings; Miss Forbes looked pretty in white; Miss Rookes, pale lavender, black hat with white poppies; Mrs Ireland. Miss Ireland, flowered lavender; her sister in blue delaine with velvet trimmings; Mrs Niccol looked attractive in black with yellow trimmings; Mrs Cohen, Mrs Tewesley looked graceful in yellow and white stripe crinkly silk; Miss Kilgour, cream silk ; her sister looked charming in white ; Miss Dunnett looked stylish in a shimmery lavender silk ruched at the edge of skirt, zouave jacket of olive green plush ; Mrs Devore was douce in trained black silk, pink in her bonnet; Miss Devore, elegant in grey cashmere; Mrs Cottle, handsome black silk; Miss Bursill, becoming blue costume; Mrs Pentland Norton looked extremely elegant in a soft 'grey spotted silk, hat with white; Mrs Ching, seagreen shot with brown and flowered with white sprays, bonnet en suite ; Mrs Gordon, flowered cream delaine ; Mrs (Dr). Bews, striped cream and navy; Mrs Moss-Davis, heliotrope relieved with tippet of cream guipure lace; her daughter in pink; Mrs Worsp, heliotrope silk, her daughter in stylish costume of myrtle green cashmere, with corselet hodice of white; Mrs Jackson, grey silk ; Miss Von Sturmer, cream ; Miss L. Baker, cream ; Miss Ella Baker, grey and white vest; Mrs Goodhue, black skirt and blue top ; Mrs Scberff, navy costume; her daughters in grey, with white vests; Mrs Motion, black, with pretty buttercup wreath in bonnet; Mrs J. Y. Stevenson, black ; Mrs Peacock, handsome black; her sister also in mourning; Mrs Keep (Sydney), who is on a visit to her mother, dark sage-green costume trimmed with velvet, black summer hat; Mrs Hope Lewis, extremely stylish costume of grey, velvet sleeves and corselet belt of grey, black hat relieved with buttercups; Mrs W. Rattray, Egypt dress, black hat; Mrs Shirley Baker, prune silk ; Miss Percival, grey, and her sister in dark green stripe ; Mrs Conolly and Misses Conolly, Miss Johnson, grey; Mrs Cheeseman, Mrs and Misses Keesing, Miss Stevenson (Remuera), Mrs and the Misses Kempthorne, Mrs Gould, drab with a fawn shade trimmed with velvet; Mrs Arthur Nathan, Miss Suttie, grey ; Mrs Pollan, black with white front; Miss Elliott, Miss Mobray, black ; Mrs Chambers, black ; Miss Chambers, grey with white silk vest; Miss Fisher, Mrs Bloomfield (Parnell), Miss Firth, grey skirt, white blouse, white gem hat; Miss Larkins, Miss Beale, crusl ed strawberry; Miss Wilkins, extremely stylish grey delaine, grey silk sleeves, Elizabethan collar, pink vest, Empire sash of grey silk; her sister looked pretty in grey bengaline ; Mrs A. Tayler, handsome white Liberty silk, hat with yellow feather; Mrs Carr, cream ; Miss N. Russell looked pretty in grey, and her sister Miss Winnie Russell; Mrs and the Misses Moss, Mrs Masefield, Miss Evans, Mrs (Capt.) James. Mrs C. Taylor and the Misses Taylor, Mrs Charles James. Amongst the men present were Capt. Floyd (H.M.S. Goldfinch) and also the officers, Drs Forbes, Lewis; Messrs Gordon, MacKellar, Capt. Banks, Mr Tunks, Rev. F. Larkins. Amongst the various LADIES IN TOWN I noticed Mrs Wynyard (from Onehunga) wearing a stylish black dress, black bonnet touched with ponceau ; her daughter was in pale terra-cotta, white hat with white tips ; Miss Brown (of Norman’s Hill) was dressed in tabac skirt, cream blouse flowered with brown, cream and tabac hat.; a young lady with her wore a grey skirt, pretty frilled blouse, brown hat trimmed with tuscan ; Mrs Hardie, pale grey, black hat. This charming weather enables us to wear our PRETTY DRESSES IN THE STREET. Miss Kissling has a pretty black and white spotted delaine, white blouse, small white hat; Miss Anderson looks nice in white spotted muslin, white chic hat; Mrs Blair, white cambric with edgings of white lace, black velvet toque; Miss Lawford, white flowered delaine, white sailor hat; Miss Stevenson, grey and white spotted cambric, pretty cream straw hat; Mrs Bews, navy skirt, white blouse, navy sailor hat edged with navy and white feathers; Miss Buddle looks pretty in cornflower blue delaine, and navy sailor hat; Mrs Bloomfield, grey skirt, wh'te blouse and white hat; Miss C. Hardy, navy skirt, white blouse, navy Swiss belt, large hat with flowers ; Mrs Mahoney, stylish navy, with white shirt front, large white hat with bands of velvet under the brim, while the crown was trimmed with large red poppies which drooped coquettishly over the back; Miss Banks, white muslin ; Miss Atkinson, pale blue with hat en suite; Miss Wilkins, navy with white vest; Mrs A. Clarke, very stylish grey silk; Miss Dunnet, fawn with dark orange trimmings; Miss Bursill, grey shot with green; Miss Harrison, fawm costume ; Mrs Dixon looks well in black; Mrs Butt, dark grey dress, black and gold lace bonnet; Mrs D. B. Cruickshank, fawn skirt, white blouse with bishop sleeves, fawn hat trimmed with fawn feathers; Miss Brett, biscuit-coloured muslin, with pretty black )ace toque with feathers; her sister is charming in pink striped cambric, white straw hat; Miss Buckland, pretty pale pink zephyr, navy sailor hat; Miss Way looks well in navy and w’hite blouse. She returned last week to Christchurch. Miss Laishley is garbtd in soft white muslin. HITHER AND THITHER. Mr and Mrs Thomson and daughter, ‘ Rocklands,’ Mount Eden, are going away to Sydney for a six weeks’ trip. Mr and Mrs McCausland (nee Miss Alice Short), Sydney, have come to Auckland and are going to Waikato to benefit Mrs McCausland’s health, who is far from well. An afternoon tea, said to have been given in Remuera last week, turns out to have been only the lady’s usual Wednesday ‘At Home.’ The exceptionally large number of visitors probably led my informant into the error. It is a pretty idea for a bride-elect to have a

FAREWELL TEA for her girl friends, as she never meets them again on quite the same footing. Miss Jervis followed this charming custom the other day, and entertained a few of her friends in this popular way with great success.