NAPIER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue III, 21 July 1894, Page 67

NAPIER.

Dear Bee, July 13. THE STEEPLE CHASE RACE MEETING was a very fashionable gathering, and every one was glad that Mrs Spencer H. Gollan won the coveted prize, viz., the handsome lady's bracelet. Being the fwinter meeting, most of the ladies’ toilettes were dark, but furs are always becoming. Mrs Fairfax Fenwick was admired on the lawn in a dark skirt, seal jacket with fur trimmings, peculiar flat bonnet with a tartan bow and wing; Miss Cara Russell, brown; the Misses Johnstone and Inglis, fawn corduroy ; Mrs Arthur Gore, grey, and light hat; Mrs Barker, from the Wairarapa, was much admired; Mrs Logan, neat tweed ; Miss Locke was seen to advantage in a grey tweed and becoming hat; Miss Rhodes, royal blue serge; Mrs Reed, black ; Miss Adele Baker, black serge with touches of red; Mrs J. N. Williams, black, handsome mantle; Mrs Montgomery also looked well; Mrs Walter Tabuteau. dark red cos tume ; Mrs G. Donelly, handsome black costume ; Mrs J. A. Carlile, brown ; Miss Shaw, the Misses Ormond, Mrs Hoadley. grey ; Mi> W. Wood, dark costume; with her were the Misses Wise and Glendinning; Mrs Gaisford. black; Miss Elsie Williams; Miss Seale looked well in a neat gown.

THE STEEPLECHASE BALL was not nearly so well attended as usual, doubtless owing to the heavy subscription. A novel idea, and well carried out in every particular, was THE DANCE GIVEN BY THE MISSES BROWNING, FULTON, AND HUGHES on Friday evening. The invitations were issued in these three demoiselles’ names. They worked with untiring energy to make their dance the great success it undoubtedly was. The museum was converted into the supper-room. The table down the centre of the room literally groaned under its weight of good things—turxeys, fowls, hams, trifles, fruit salads, creams, etc. Flowers and the pretty crinkled paper helped to add to the artistic point. Sweets consisting of candied fruits, walnuts, prunes and dates were distributed about on small tables in the room, and whist tables were provided for the ladies who did not dance. There were a noticeable number of new dresses worn. The hostesses range first in order. Miss Browning wore black and pink; Miss Fulton wore black; while Miss Sybil Hughes wore a neat grey velvet with passementerie; Miss Troutbeck, dainty white silk

and scarlet poppies; Miss Spencer looked very nice in yellow ; her sister. Miss Emily, a pretty English gown of white with yellow sleeves ; Mias Lascelles, a rich black silk with green trimmings; Miss Ethel Simcox. a dainty white frock ; Mrs Tabuteau was much admired in black and scarlet ; Miss Glen dinning wore a lovely gown ; her friend. Miss Wise, wore pale heliotrope with puffed sleeves of a darker shade : Miss Gertrude Hughes, pale heliotrope ; Miss Wilson, white with scarlet; Miss Cotterill, pink; Miss Cornford, her debutante's gown of white silk ; Miss Beamish, a handsome yellow silk gown ; Miss Ger trude Cotterill, brown and cream; Miss Rhodes, yellow silk; Miss Chapman, white ; Mien Flossie Bell, yellow silk ; Mrs Malone Thomson, looked well, as usual, in black and blue; Mrs Willie Anderson, her wedding dress of white cashmere ; Mrs Gerard King, white; Miss Hilda Fulton was much admired in a pretty Rink gown; the Misses Henderson (Christchurch), white; Mrs lartley, a pretty pale pink dress; Mrs J. P. Hamlin, black and yellow ; Miss Page, etc. etc.

Dolly.