NAPIER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue VIII, 25 August 1894, Page 187

NAPIER.

Dear Bee, August 18. Lovely spring weather came in with August. It has been prophesied. I hear, by some spiritualist in Wellington that that city is to be annihilated this month by a tidal wave, and we Napierites are getting very anxious to know if our little town is to be demolished as well. A fashionable AFTERNOON TEA was given by Mrs Bridges last week. Amongst those I noticed wending their way there were Mesdames Ormond. P. S. McLean. Wood, Kells. Kinross. White (in handsome costume of black and scarlet), Bennett, Begg, Macfarlane. Cornford. Tylee, Kettle. Hoadley, Sainsbury, Logan. Reed, etc., etc. THE FOOTBALL FIELD was a source of attraction last Saturday. Miss Fernandez was admired in an electric cashmere with pale pink pipings ; Mrs H B. Lusk, a striking costume of green corduroy with revers, fashionable moir£ bow with cream lace ends; Mrs A. U. Norris’ fawn and brown; Mrs Stubbs, navy blue; Mrs Swan, navy serge; Mrs Moller, neat navy serge, jet bow bonnet; Miss Cheguidden, navy serge, neat jacket with beaver. A SMART AFTERNOON TEA was that given by the Misses Hitchings in honour of Mrs King (Wellington), who is staying with them. The Belle Cole Company are to plav here next week. I trust their concerts will be better patronised than the Sapio-Urso ones as their meagre audiences were a disgrace to Napier, for better programmes nave never been submitted. OUR PEOPLE. Mr Rowe, from Blenheim, is visiting Napier. Miss Nation, who has been on a long visit to her grandmother and aunt, Mrs and Miss Green, returned home rm Auckland last week. I regret to say that Mr lAirwill Humphries, formerly of New Plymouth and Auckland, is lying at the point of death of lingering consumption. w Hugh LuHk V aH dissolved partnership with his colleague. Mr W. L. Rees, and is going to settle in Napier and practise on his own account.

Dr. Ixx'king, from Nelson, has purchased the practice of the late Di. Innes as a going concern. Napier seems to have her fair share of the brothers of the medical profession. Dr. Menzies, who for many years has been House Surgeon of the Napier Hospital, has resigned. Dr. Sweet, who has just come from Australia, has been appointed resident surgeon. We are all greatly disappointed to hear that there are to be no more Cinderella* this winter. Generally there are four, but owing to too much money having been expended on the supper, the funds have run short. A small one may be given in the Athemvum Hall with the small amount over. These Cinderella dances are always so enjoyable, that the news that there are to be no more for this year has come like a thunderbolt to one and all. Gladys.