AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 9, 4 March 1893, Page 210

AUCKLAND.

Dear Bee. February 27. We much enjoyed MRS THOMAS’S GARDEN PARTY. She is. as you know, the wife of one of our University Professors, and we met quite a collection of learned men that afternoon. Our hostess wore a handsome crushed strawberry dress with art draperies round the edge of the skirt, bonnet en suite: Lady Thurston was handsomely gowned in olive green silk ; Miss N. Russell, stylish trained cream and white striped zephyr trimmed abundantly with black ribbons, black hat; Miss G. Russell, pretty pink muslin; and her sister wore terracotta : Mrs Cowie, handsome black gown, bonnet with a touch of white ribbons to relieve ; Miss Owen, pretty blue and white muslin ; Mrs Bull, handsome black silk gown, bonnet en suite; Mrs Peacock, black silk with handsome bead trimmings; Mrs Ware, black lace, black bonnet with red poppies: Miss Haul tain, gendarme green with white vest; Miss F. Kissling, light mode grey with white vest; Miss Devereux looked chic in dark slate, white vest, hat with flowers; Mrs Pay ton. electric blue with guipure lace trimmings ; Mrs Hardie, wore an extremely stylish gown of grey shot with Egypte red. and Egypte red trimmings covered with Meehlin lace, bonnet with trimmings to match ; Miss Bleazard, a becoming dress of spruce with handsome embroidery trimmings ; Mrs (Dr.) Wilkins, wore a handsome black lace, black bonnet; Miss Stevenson (Remuera), fawn with brown ribbon trimmings ; Miss Barstow, bright royal blue, extremely striking and stylish dress with hat en suite ; Mrs Hugh Campbell, pretty navy, flowered with daisies ; Miss Coleman, navy dress with white vest; Miss Tewesbury, pretty grey print; Mrs A. Carrick, handsome ardoise grey with parasol to match, and gem hat with white ribbons; Mrs Nelson, handsome black gown and black hat; Mrs Upton, light mode grey with a white stripe and white lace trimmings, lovely white tulle bonnet with white feathers, black velvet bows, Mrs McArthur, steel grey, with white lace, grey bonnet; Miss KerrTaylor, simple white gown; Miss Colbec. cream silk: Miss Puckey, crushed strawberry flowered muslin, with black lace, black lace hat with flowers; and her sister looked nice in white; Mrs Conolly, fawn dress, b’ack lace mantle, bonnet trimmed with bouton d’or ribbons, and her daughters wore grey and cream respectively; Mrs Cheeseman, prune-coloured gown covered with black lace, black lace bonnet with pink roses; Miss Heather, grey trimmed with silk, white hat: Miss Campbell, black (mourning); Miss Bleazard, grey and pink ; Miss Alexander, black relieved with white, pale grey hat trimmed with feathers; Mrs Street, black; Miss Rooke, red plaid trimmed with red silk ; Mrs Browning, handsome black dress. We ladies take a good deal of interest in polo, perhaps because we cannot, as yet, play it ourselves. I must, however, only describe the ladies’ DRESSES AT POLO. Mrs O’Rorke, striking gown, with red vest, white gem hat; Mrs (Dr.) Purchas. grey dress, white hat; Mrs Younghusband, extremely stylish gown of black alpaca, with grey trimmings, black hat with grey feathers ; Mrs Colgrove. navy with blue ; Mrs (Dr.) Bews, grey, black feathered hat; Mrs Bilborough, striped grey and black ; Miss Dolly Scberff, navy ; Miss Worsp. navy and her sister in brown; Mrs Ireland, heliotrope ; Miss Ireland, green ; Miss Johnson, grey: Miss Rookes, navy, white blouse; Miss Forbes, dark green : Miss Hay, lovely pink and white ‘’tripe : and her sister navy ; Miss Bursill. grey ; Miss Power, cornflower blue : Miss Lawford, navy, with manly shirt; Miss Firth, black and white ; Miss Dunnett, grey ; Miss Percival, red and white; Mrs A. Clark, grey: Miss Young, fawn: Mrs W. Bloom Held (‘The Pines ’) looked extremely well on Kary, her last year’s hunter, and wore green skirt, white blouse, gem hat; Mrs Buddle looked chic in grey Mik check, white sailor hat. We have enjoyed greatly MAX O’RELL’S LECTURES. Amongst the interested audience I saw Mrs Shirley Baker, old gold brown, with a fawn shawl; Miss Laird, black: Miss Rose Laird, black skirt, grey silk blouse: Mrs Bloomfield, dark bronze moyen gown ; Mrs Lucas Bloomfield, navy skirt, Egypt red blouse; Miss Ray, black: Mrs Blair, brown, toque with pink flowers; Mrs Walnutt, biscuit-coloured gown ; Miss MacDonald (Ponsonby) navy, with handsome row of beads round neck ; her friend wore a stylish fawn silk : Miss Phillips, grey skirt, white blouse, gem hat; Mrs Niccol, black; Mrs Coleman, black ; Miss Coleman, cream figured silk; her sister wore a lovely pink silk; they both wore handsome white opera cloaks; Mrs Thomas, black trimmed with grey: Miss Thomas, black; Mrs Challinor Purchas, grey; Miss Pierce black spotted gown ; the Misses Hesketh. shrouded in opera cloaks; Mrs Goring, black silk; Mrs T. Morrin. neutral tinted barred costume, yoke and epaulettes of rich guipure lace; Mrs Arthur Nathan, black with azure silk cuffs and yoke covered with black lace ; Mrs Col. Burton, black ; Mrs King, dark evening dress; Mrs. H. King, white gown, crimson plush cloak ; Mrs Stevenson, black ; Miss Stuart, drab evening dress ; Mrs A. Clark, white evening dress ; Mrs Kilgour, black with lavender vest; Miss Kilgour, lilac evening costume; Mrs Butt, black, palmleaf fan ; Mrs Logan, tabac dress. EN PROMENADE. I have noticed Mrs Flower, and her daughter, Mrs Wood, in stylish grey costumes of different shades and material; Mrs Martin, in stylish black : her daughter, grey and lavender blue with becoming hat to match: Miss Rookes. cream tussore silk, white vest, gem hat; Miss Forbes, navy, white vest, gem hat; Miss Power, navy skirt, white spotted blouse, hat with green ribbons; Mrs Wilkins, black: Miss Wilkins, blue delaine, pretty hat with blue flowers; Mrs John Roach, black with white vest, gem hat with mourning ribbons; Mrs Hardie, flowered muslin, black dolman, black bonnet; Mrs Cohen, black skirt, white blouse, pretty hat with white roses; Miss Iceland, white: Mrs Alfred Buckland (junr.), black (mourning); Miss Anderson looks chic in navy skirt, cream blouse, and scarlet ribbons round neck and gem hat: Miss Buddle, navy skirt, white blouse, gem hat; Miss Nashelski, terracotta skirt, rose coral blouse, hat with flowers; Mrs Cotter, navy skirt and Eton jacket. Mexique blue vest; Miss Sellers, beige gown and hat with chartreuse green. Max O’ Rell (Monsieur Blouet) was the guest of MRS THOMSON, GREEN LANE, Remuera, on Friday afternoon. Excellent refreshments were provided, but as I was not present I can only give you a faint idea of the proceedings. The hostess was gowned in a handsome Sale green silk with long train. Amongst the guests were Mrs loss-Davis, Mrs Arthur Nathan, shot silk ; Mrs Arthur Taylor, Mrs Archdale Tayler,lovely white muslin flowered with gray and trimmed with gray silk, hat to match ; Mrs R Browning handsome black ; Mrs Gur Coates (who sang very sweetly), Mrs A P. Wilson, looking very stylish in black silk grenadine; Miss Kilgour, the Misses Hay, Mrs Pritt. Mrs Tom Morrin, Mrs Shera. ruby silk ; Mi’s Reed, Mrs and Miss Law, Mias Coates, and Mrs Hunter. DRESSES AT MISS KEMPTHORNE’S AFTERNOON TEA. Mrs Kempthorne. striped black broch£ : Miss Kenipthorne, simple white embroidered gown, blue silk Empire sash : her sister wore a pretty red spotted muslin; Miss Kempthorne (Nelson), grey, en trainee Miss Stevenson, pretty pink and white striped cambric trimmed with pink ribbons, black lace toque with pink silk trimmings; Miss Buckland, steel grey with white silk trimmings, hat with feathers; Miss Sellers, fawn cashmere trimmed with fawn silk : Miss Jones, white muslin with cream sash ; Miss Co’.eman. black, with white vest, and white hat with feathers; and her sister wore cream nun’s veiling with black Zouave jacket, white bat with feathers ; Miss Worsp, flowered muslin, green Empire sash ; and her sister, pretty white spotted muslin, silver belt; Miss Hesketh. cream delaine flowered with grey, hat with white silk trimmings; Miss Hay. red delaine; and her sister, navy skirt, white blouse, gem hat; Miss Buddle, stylish crinkly apricot and white striped zephyr, with orange Empire sash, ana black lace toque covered with yellow roses ; Mrs Gould, slate grey trimmed with velvet; Mrs Munro, simple white embroidery, hat with feathers and ribbons; Miss Tilly, terracotta delaine ; Miss Upton, pale grey with passementerie trimmings, and pretty hat with grey feathers; Miss

Johnson, ardoise grey; Miss Gorrie. steel grey, white vest and cuffs embroidered with gold braid: Miss Ireland, lavender flowered muslin, gem hat trimmed with flowers, and her sister wore a green electric trimmed with yoke and cufffc of absinthe green velvet, hat with feathers; Miss Conolly. grey skirt, white blouse ; her sister wore simple grey ; Miss Bankart, crinkly striped zephyr of a pale lavender shade: her sister wore pink striped zephyr trimmed with black velvet ribbon ; Miss Chambers, simple white gown, hat covered with ostrich feathers ; Miss Parsons, navy delaine ; Miss Kerr-Taylor, blue; and her sister, white; Mrs Whitney looked pretty in cream silk ; Miss Mac Murray. white ; Miss Kirkwood, apricot gown trimmed with fawn lace, white straw hat; Miss Laishley, cream spotted gown, pretty hat with feathers. I must hasten to give you some idea of the very numerous GUESTS AT MRS COWIE’S ‘ AT HOME.’ Our hostess looked so nice in black, with soft white chiffon berthe, and one of the pretty caps we all admire ; MDs Cowie was simply and prettily frocked in a grey skirt with white bodice. I cannot give you the visitors in any sort of precedence or order, but must jot them down as they come into my head. Besides the members of the University Senate whose names you. of course, know, there were present. Rev. C. M., and Mrs Nelson, the latter looking very well in black : Mrs Goring, very distingue in grev with black lace : Mr, and Mrs O’Rorke. in lovely rose coral nun’s veiling. en traine. with satin front being a work of art, embroidered birds with gold thread; Mr, and Mrs Ware, in black lace; Mrs Dargaville, handsome bouton d’or silk, covered with black lace; Mi«s Dargaville. white : Mr. and Mrs Shirley Baker, slate grey: Miss Baker, rose coral pink bodice, the corselet and skirt of black net: Miss Ella, dark green satin; Mr, and Mrs Colegrove, lovely white trained dress (her wedding sown): Mr W. Goodhue; Archdeacon Dudley. Mrs Dudley wore black: Miss Dolly Dully. Coquelicot, red net; the Hon. H. de B. Devereux, Miss Devereux, in maize coloured lace; Mr, and Mrs Shera, crimson velvet; Mr, and Mrs Butt, black; Miss Coleman, pretty pink nun’s veiling : Miss Freda Kissling, pretty mode grey with white trimmings : Mr, and Mrs Bloomfield in lovely white gown. Elizabethan collar, bouton d’or sash, handsome gold trimmings on edge of skirt: Mr Edward Russell. Miss N. Russell, handsome black velvet with white lace trimmings ; Captain, and Mrs Worsp in black lace: Miss Worsp, heliotrope with white trimmings : Professor Pond. Mr, and Mrs T. Morrin in terracotta gown covered with black lace; Miss White. Mexique blue; Mr Baume, Mrs and Misses Kerr-Taylor, Col. Haultain. Miss Haultain. Mr, and Mrs Unton, black; Miss Upton, white: Rev. F. Larkins Miss Larkins, handsome black lace with lovely roses round the V-shaped corsage; Mrs A. Taylor, celery green and pink evening gown: Miss Kilgour. black lace with white Empire belt, her sister w’ore white with green ribbons: Mr Towsey, Messrs Hooper, Misses Hooper, pretty pink dresses; Miss Anderson, cream delaine; Mrs Carr, black, her daughter wore a lovely white richly trimmed with fur; Mr. and Mrs Whitney, yellow flowered muslin ; Mr, and Mrs Thorne George, black ; Miss T. George, blue ; Mrs Dawson, black lace: Miss Binks, pale green; Mr. and Miss Shrewsbury, white muslin ; Miss Morrison, dark green ; Dr . and Mrs Kenderdine, black satin and pink ribbons; Miss Kenderdine, white muslin with red sash ; Rev. J., and Miss Chew, pretty white muslin ; Miss Dudley, white net ; Mrs Robertson, black ; Mr and Mrs A. Clarke, the latter very pretty in ficelle lace and silk ; Mr, and Mrs Thomas Wood in black lace; Mr, and Mrs James Russell in black with yellow trimmings ; Rev. George, and Mrs McMurray, black ; Rev. J. Marshal, Rev. John King Davis. Mrs Davis wore black with heliotrope; Dr., and Mrs Hassell., rose-coloured silk edged with darker velvet; Mr, and Mrs Theo. Kissling black silk; Miss Kissling, black ; Mr Batger: Mr. and Miss Churton. black ; Dr., and Mrs Purchas, black ; Miss Purchas, white; Rev. P. S. Small field; Mr. and Mrs Bourne, black lace; Miss Russell, white and pink ; Mr Thomas Buddle, Miss Buddle, cream delaine ; Mr and Miss Alexander. Mrs Hugh Campbell, Miss Bull and her sister, white: Monseigneur McDonald; Mr, and Mrs Cheeseman, bla°k lace; Miss Keesing ; Mrs Moss, black; Miss Moss, royal blue velvet; and her sister wore rose-coloured cashmere ; Mrs Tisdall. black : and her daughter, black lace; Rev. R.. and Mrs Coates, black lace ; Rev. D. W. Runciman, Miss Runciman, white muslin. Miss Von Sturmer, white, with roses; Rev. I and Mrs Richards, Archbishop Redwood, Mr Wilson, Mr and Mrs Brett, Dr. Laishley, etc. I really cannot remember even a quarter of the people who were present. AT THE OPERA HOUSE ON MONDAY I saw Miss Reeve, in white flowered delaine ; Mrs Whitelaw, in black, with her younger daughters in white; Miss Joey Reeve, in white ; Miss Furgusson. in fawn costume, white waistcoat; Mrs Hyman, fawn costume; Mrs Aircy, black ; Mrs Alfred Nathan, handsome gown of black and dark blue silk; Miss Geddis, pale blue; Miss Porter, blue and grey; Mrs Porter, brown silk and lace.

Muriel.