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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue XI, 10 March 1894, Page 235

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Dear Bee, February 28. Mr Maughan Barnett gives his CONCERT to-day in the Athenaeum. A large audience is expected, as Miss Large is to sing for the last time before proceeding to England. The programme will be a very interesting one. consisting of songs by Kalliwoda and Maughan Barnett, trios by Gadeand Fauconier, and the piano solos include Schubert’s * Fantasie in C.’Chopin’s ‘ Polonaise in A flat,’ and a new ‘ Albumblat ’ by Mr Barnett. OUR PEOPLE. Mrs Balfour has returned from Taupo. Master Frank Vickerman, of Hastings, who was laid up at Mrs Balfour’s with a very bad sprained ankle, has been taken home by his mother, but I hear that the little sufferer is still confined to his couch. Dr. Moore has returned from Blenheim, to which place he went to assist in an operation. Miss Millie Rhodes has returned from Sydney. Mr and Mrs Spencer Gollan have gone to Victoria, but expect to be back in New Zealand some time before April. Mr de Pelichet has gone for a trip South, on shooting intent. STREET GOWNS. I noticed several country people in town lately, notably. Miss Annie St. Hill, who has just arrived from England in the Gothic, and looks very nice in an electric blue gown, large white hat; Mrs Vickerman, of Hastings, in a pretty butcher’s blue linen gown, sunburnt sailor hat; Mrs G. P. Donnelly, in a most stylish black gown, blue checked shirt, black zouave, black hat with red band: Miss Shaw, in a pretty pale blue gown, while sailor hat; Miss Lascelles, looking handsome in a brown holland costume, sailor hat; Mrs Hamlin looks stylish in butcher’s blue linen gown, black hat; Miss Fulton is admired in a pale blue gown, white hat. Gladys.