CHRISTCHURCH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 30, 29 July 1893, Page 43

CHRISTCHURCH.

Dear Bee, July 20. The LADIES GOLF CLUB. are practising hard for the match to come off on Monday next for Mrs Campbell’s medal in Hagley Park. The links have been enlarged and improved since the last match, and no doubt their play will have improved also, and unless the weather is very atrocious that will be an improvement too, for it was vile last time. Mrs Burns had a charming but SMALL MUSICAL AFTERNOON at the Bank house. Hereford street, on Thursday. Her own singing is always so sweet and gives one real pleasure. Miss Rich, with her violin, played charmingly, too. Mrs Haslam, Mrs Westmacott, and Mr IL Reeves also sang very nicely. The concert of Chamber music organised by Mr F. M. Wallace

takes place this evening in the Provincial Council Chambers. Every seat is taken, and a very great treat is anticipated. The great question. * Are we a musical community f is not any nearer being decided by the avidity with wnich the guinea tickets were taken up for this series of concerts, it bei"g openly asserted many of the subscribers have done so purely out of regard to Mr Wallace, at the same time with a wish to foster the taste for good mudc. especially in the young, and that is exactly the meaning of Mr Wallace and his friends, so if we are not musical and take ever so much trouble to explain it. the trap has been very successfully baited. Mrs Burns is the only soloist (voeah, the rest of the programme being solos for piano and violin, instrumental duets, trios, and quartettes. With the greatest forethought and kind ness Mrs Heaton Rhodes has lent her beautiful grand piano for this concert, and with Mrs Wilding as pianist will alone be worth listening to. The LILIPCTI AN OPERA COMPANY closed a very good season on Saturday. * The Gondoliers ’ being especially pleasing, the children's acting and dancing being quite equal to their elders. Miss Mitchell as Mabe! in ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ was a wonderful success, being encored again and again for her waltz song, and after appearing four times the curtain was lowered. During the week 1 have seen there Dr. and Mrs Guthrie, Mr and Mrs Louisson. Mr and Mrs Gibbs, Mr and Mrs Greenwood. Mr and Mrs Wood, Mr ami Mrs Thomas. Mr and Mrs Garrick, Misses Way, Hargreaves, Hale, Courage. Holmes, Thomson. Ketnpthorne. Mr and Mrs Scott. Mr and Mrs R. Macdonald, Mr end Mrs Henderson. Mrs W. Stringer, Mrs Quane, Mrs B. Fisher, Airs C. Cook ami others. A very SUCCESSFUL DANCE was given in the Montreal-street Hall by the members of the Merivale Football Club as a 1 eturn to the ladies who lately gave them their handsome banner. The gallery was arranged as a drawing-room, and all the arrangments were well carried out The citizens’ball to the Spanish officers next week will be quite an event. lam told they cannot speak a wonl of English, but hope it. is an exaggeration, or picture the amount of vital force we shall have to expend in such a one-sided arrangement. The ball takes place in the Provincial Council Chambers, the prettiest hail in the town for a function of the kind. The Salvage Club continues to attract our brethren. They purpose entertaining the Spanish otlicers at a choice evening. OUR FOLKS. Dr. Morton Anderson is about to visit the Old Country, leaving by the Coptic next week. He only purposes making a flying visit, returning under the six months. Mr and Mrs Kiinbell returned to the colony by the Rimutaka. Their numerous Christchurch friends gladly welcomed them back.

Dolly Vale.