ONEHUNGA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 39, 30 September 1893, Page 259

ONEHUNGA.

Dear Bee, September 24. The MASQUERADE BALL was a great success. I must tell you about some of the different characters represented, as some dresses were very handsome indeed. Mrs Mahoney as a Pansy wore a beautiful costume of purple and cream velvet; Mrs Paterson a short zouave dress and white gaiters; Mrs Ned Jones, evening dress; Mrs Scott as a nurse with cap, apron and chatelaine fairly puzzled her friends until she unmasked; Mesdames Barnes, Whitson, Noakes, Elliott, Gribbons, evening dress; Miss Eaton (Mahurangi), looked pretty as a Valkyre with feather headdress ; Miss Thompson’s dress and walk represented our Grandmother; Miss Noakes made a nice little Fishwife with a net; Miss Grace Suttie wore a domino; Miss Clara Firth, a highly becoming dress as the Duchess of Devonshire; Miss Yonge a Chorus Girl in the ‘Gondoliers:’ Miss A. Yonge as a Romp of Ten Summers looked the character so well, that a gentleman was heard to remark that she was too young for such a dance ; Miss Elliott as Fatima, and her sister as a Smuggler’s Daughter, both looked well; Miss Andrews, Undine : Miss Dickey, Soubrette; Miss Campbell, evening dress; the Misses Alice and Eva Davy wore handsome military uniforms over short skirts; Miss Barnes, evening dress; Miss Myra Barnes, Nancy Lee: Miss Dora Whitson, handsome Japanese dress; Miss Lisa Whitson, as a Barrister, seemed very proud of her first brief, as she carried it everywhere with her; Miss Ella Howard. Red Riding Hood; Miss A. McFarlane looked well as a Norwegian Peasant, with a high square cap; Miss Ethel Jackson as another peasant looked equally well; Miss Bassett, fancy dress; Miss E. Bassett, Domino; Miss W. Bassett, Progressive Euchre; Miss Bull, Grecian Lady; Miss E. Bull. Flower Girl; Miss Eva Rich was a cheerful Milkmaid with a pail; MLs Von Sturmer, Japanese; Miss L. Von Sturmer, Tennis ; Miss Rathbone, as Carmen, wore a beautiful velvet dress; Miss Marton. Tambourine Girl; Miss Ansly, handsome white satin dress, and hat with feathers like an old English Lady; Mrs Bewes looked very well in Kate Greenaway style; Miss P. Mulgan, as a Gleaner, carried a bunch of wheat; Miss Hilda Worsp represented Elsie in ‘Yeomen of the Guard ;’ Miss Sellars, Greek dress; Miss Percival. Gipsy; Miss Claude, Tambourine Girl; Mi»s Wylde-Brown, School (Jiri: Miss L. Shepherd was fascinating as Powder and Patches; Miss Dixon, Grecian Lady: Miss Douglas, pale blue evening dress; Miss Brewer, Stars and Stripes; Mrs Evans, Galatea : Miss Masefield as Folly seemed full of fun and enjoyment.; Miss Clare Smith wore a pretty Watteau Shepherdess costume; Miss Hilda Gibbons as Sea Shells wore a seagreen pongee silk with fish net overskirt festooned with shells and coral; Miss Cox, Patch work; and the Misses Lewis, Crawford. Scott, Atkinson, Dixon, and Paterson whose dresses I do not remember, so must leave out. Mr Selby, evening dress; Mr Paterson, handsome Robin Hood costume; Mr Forbes, Naval Uniform ; Mr Jack Wynyard wore a most grotesque mask, and looked the Raw Recruit to perfection; Mr ti. Wynyard, as an Innocent Abroad in mask and domino; Mr M. Wynyard, as Uncle Sam; Mr A. Eliott, fancy dress; Mr B Noakes, Friar Tuck; Mr P. H. Upton, as Gentleman of the Period of 1984; Mr Atkinson, Tennis; Messrs Maxwell and R. Masefield, Clowns;

Mr C. Purchas made a very good coloured Tea Planter: Mr L. Shepherd. Cricketer: Mr H. Frost. Tennis Player; Mr Horton, suit of the Auckland Herald'. Mr D McCormack appeared first as Sir Joseph Porter. K.C.8., and afterwards in a cooler dress as a Sailor; Mr Walford, Costermonger; Mr Walter Airey appeared at first to be a Bushman, but afterwards turned out to be an escaped Convict; Mr Stubbs was in a Filiform; Mr Duihie looked well as a Spanish Matador; Mr F. Withers, Chinaman : Mr Laird was splendid in a Greek dress; Mr Morton wore a very handsome dress as ‘ Here ward the Wake ’; Mr M. McCallum looked well in his Scotch kilt: Mr Gordon as Bunthorne in ’Patience’; and his brother as Mephistopheles. Amongst the spectators in the gallery I noticed Mrs and Miss Wynyard, Mrs and Miss Otway. Mrs McFarlane, and Mrs Bassett. The ball has proved a financial success, I hear, so the tennis club

will rejoice, as the proceeds go to that body.

Senex.