NAPIER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XV, 13 October 1894, Page 354

NAPIER.

Dear Bee, September 29. I have just arrived home drenched with rain, but fully repaid for having ventured out to attend MR MAUGHAM BARNETT’S FIRST OF THE SERIES OF HIS FAREWELL CONCERTS. Mr Pope sang two songs composed by Mr Barnett, and ‘ Absent yet Present.’ Mrs Margolionth, Mrs and Miss Ormond. Mrs Kettle, Mrs Logan, Mrs White, the Misses Cott erill, Locke, Rhodes, Page, etc., were there. Messrs Dicken and Humphries also assisted. THE HUNT CLUB races and sports were fashionably attended. Mrs George Donnelly with a large party drove there, also. I noticed, Mrs Russell ana Miss Cara Russell. Mrs J. Rhodes and her daughter Madge, Miss Groome. Mbs Nelson. Miss M. Nelson, Miss Maud Donnelly, the Misses Lowry, Mrs Lovell. Mrs Kinross White, Mrs Reed. Mrs Kettle, and Mrs Logan. The ’ beaux ’of the Hawke’s Bay district also mustered in good force. Much sympathy is felt for Mr and Mrs Provis in the loss they sustained in their house being burnt to the ground. Nothing was saved, and everything was destroyed by the loul fiend fire, including a sum of money in notes. PROGRESSIVE EUCHRE seems by no means to be on the wane. A number of players spent a pleasant evening at Miss Page’s studio, amongst whom were Mr C. D. Kennedy and Miss Maud Kennedy, Miss Hill. Miss Rhodes. Mrs Von Dadelsen. Mr and Mrs Courtenay Bowen, Misses Rhodes, Nocke, and Hughes, and Messrs Parker, Jack Hughes, Von Haast, Roberts, etc. STREET DRESSES. Mrs Tabuteau is much admired in a cardinal and black costume: Miss Dora Heywood looks remarkably well in brown skirt, neat Norfolk blouse of brown velveteen, chic sailor hat with black and green band; Miss Ada Vautier, black velveteen handsomely trimmed with jet, black hat cn suite; Mrs Maughan Barnett, light summer tweed of fawn colour; her two dear little girls look bonny in all white costumes with quaint Puritan bonnets; Mrs Hamlin, black serge with jet. JOTTINGS ABOUT OUR PEOPLE. Mr Spencer Gollan has gone to Sydney. Miss Marchmont, from Wellington, is visiting the Misses Hughes. Mr and Mrs Kimbell (nee Miss Gurr) are staying in Wellington. Mr Jimmy Wilson’s departure to Wellington has been unavoidably postponed for some weeks. Mr, Mrs, and Miss Beatrice Lascelles purpose leaving for the new home in India at the end of October.

Gladys.