CHRISTCHURCH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue IX, 2 March 1895, Page 211

CHRISTCHURCH.

Dear Bee, February 20. Most of my letter this week consists of presentations, etc., for the personal column, which reduces my gossip greatly. On Tuesday afternoon Mrs C. H. Croxton had a large afternoon tea, which took the form of A GARDEN PARTY. The day was intensely hot, and strolling round the pretty walks was cooler than anywhere else. The table looked most temptingly refreshing with its yellow, green and white decorations and cool looking jellies amongst other dainties. Among the guests who met to take one more farewell of Mrs Chynoweth were Mesdames Gibbs, Webb, W. C. Hill. Davis (Dunedin), E. Deacon, Hawkes. J. Wood, Walcot Wood, T. W. Thomspon, R. Brown, Miss Wilson (Dunedin), Miss Kiver, Miss Brett (Auckland). Mrs Way mouth, Mrs Cowper, and a few others. Mrs and Miss Croxton provided a very pleasant afternoon for their friends, and towards five o’clock croquet was indulged in. On Monday, an even hotter day, Mrs Garrard, Papanui, had a few friends for AFTERNOON TEA to meet Mrs Chynoweth, the heat preventing some venturing out, but amongst those present were Mesdames H. R. Webb. Way mouth, Godfrey, Carter. Croxton, Miss Deamer, and of course Mrs Chynoweth herself, and a few more. Every Tuesday and Thursday POLO is most energetically played, practised perhaps, I should say, as they are preparing for the tournament in real earnest now. There is almost always a goodly little knot of spectators, and it always has the honour of being distinctly fashionable. Mr W. Buckley had an apparently nasty fall the other day. but I believe got nothing more than a severe shaking. Among the visitors that afternoon I noticed Mr and Mrs Alister Clarke, who are over on a visit, but if the heat we are experiencing this week continues much longer, this is not much better than Australia. The ‘ New Boy.' I hear, fell a little flat after the Opera, and that is not very surprising, but I have not interviewed him myself, though some people enjoyed him greatly. Mrs Douglas Andrews gave a garden party on Wednesday, which was much enjoyed by all present.

Dolly Vale.