DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XVIII, 3 November 1894, Page 426

DUNEDIN.

Dear Bek, October 22. I had hoped to write you a long letter this week, but owing to the inclemency of the weather on Saturday, the Otago Tennis and Carisbrook Cricket Clubs had to POSTPONE THEIR OPENING AFTERNOON until the end of this week. On Thursday Mrs John Roberts gave a

SMALL LUNCHBOX PARTY for Mrs Robert Turnbull. The table was very prettily decorated with roses and small vases of yellow primroses and pansies. The bowls of roses were placed in the centre of the table, and the small vases at the corners. The ladies present were Mrs John Roberts, Mrs Robert Turnbull, Mrs Mills. Mrs and Miss Webster, Mrs Gibson, Mrs and Miss Driver, Mrs Macassey, and the Misses Roberts. On Friday evening A TREMENDOUS JUVENILE DANCE came off at All Saints schoolroom. It was given by Messrs Percy and Ernest Macassey, Keith Ramsay, and R. Gaulter, who in their invitations called themselves the ‘Juvenile Bachelors.’ About two hundred were present, and as everybody says that they enjoyed themselves immensely. I conclude that it was a great success. The stage was prepared as a drawing-room, and looked very bright and pretty, handsome pot plants adding greatly to its effect. Mesdames Maoassey, Ramsay, and John Roberts acted as chaperones, and received the guests as they crossed the stage. The walls of the supper room were all hung with flags, which made it look very cosy. The tables were beautifully decorated with red and purple tulips and anemones. On the centre of one of the tables there stood a very high silver epergne filled with fruit and flowers. Mrs Macassey wore a very handsome brown merveilleux, velvet bodice; Mrs Ramsay, black satin, lavishly trimmed with lace; Mrs John Roberts, black silk ; Mrs Shand, black satin relieved with green satin and jet; Mrs Ulrich, black corded silk; Mrs Fitchett, black, pretty lace cap. THE GUESTS AND DRESSES. Miss Macassey. rose pink silk covered with white muslin and trimmed with frills of the same; Miss Ramsay, black net. large sleeves of terra-cotta silk; Miss C. Ramsay, white cashmere trimmed with satin ribbon; Miss May Ramsay, pink ; Miss Daisy Ramsay, white; Miss Eva Gaulter, white and heliotrope; Miss Roberts, green crdpon with sleevesand epaulettes of green velvet; Miss Aggie Roberts, coral pink crGpon, the bodice and skirt trimmed with black inseition : Miss Belle Mac Lean, very handsome pink bengaline silk; Miss K. Mac Lean. fawn and pink; Miss E. Mac Lean, pale blue surah silk; Miss Ulrich, pale green cv-hmere prettily trimmed with velvet of a darker shade; Miss E. Ulrich, yellow flowered silk; Miss Vida Reynolds, sage green velvet; Miss Coughtrey, white nun’s veiling trimmed with lace; Miss Brenda Coughtrey, white muslin striped with green; Miss Nina Gibson, grey bengaline silk with pipings of pink silk; Miss Flo Smith (Balclutha). pale pink silk trimmed with lace; Miss Norah Farquhar, white pale blue sash tied in a large butterfly bow in front of the bodice; Miss Ruby Farquhar, red cashmere with flchu of white chiffon ; Miss Sissie Hart, white; Miss Mabdl Shand, cream nun’s veiling ; Miss Dorothy Bathgate, white; Miss Marjory Turton, pa’e blue ; Miss Ethel Batchelor, heliotrope silk; Miss Coila Brown, white trimmed with blue silk; Miss Nora Royse, pale pink; and Miss Mabel Henderson, very pretty heliotrope. On Monday Mrs J. M. Ritchie gave A LUNCHEON PARTY at her residence in Pitt-street, for Miss Emily Spada. The table looked exquisite, being most tastefully decorated with spring flowers. 'Fhe guests were Miss Emily Spada. Mrs Lintott, Mrs Robert Turnbull, Mrs Mills. Mrs Sinclair Thomson, Miss Fenwick (Oamaru), and the Misses MacLaren. THE OTAGO ART SOCIETY are to open their exhibition of pictures on Monday, the sth of November, so at present everyone who belongs to it, is very busy working at their pictures. It ought to ba a very good exhibition this year, as I hear there are a great many new members. Aileen.