NAPIER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue X, 7 September 1895, Page 302

NAPIER.

Dear Bee, August 21. As so many of the Napier boys are sent to the Wanganui College to receive education, great interest was taken in the FOOTBALL MATCHES between the third fifteen of the College and the local High School and Mr Monckton's Grammar School. The visiting team by their excellent passing and superior scientific play won both events, but the games proved highly interesting to the parents and friends, amongst whom were Mesdames Hovell, Hoadley, Sainsbury. Hindmarsh, Kettle. Gilbertson. J ago. Clarke. Milne. Thompson. Wood, Jarvis, Rutherford, the Misses Hindmarsb. McGowan. Baker. .Margoliouth. Kennedy. McFarlane, etc. Never in the annals of dancing people have the ladies exceeded so largely in numbers over the sterner sex than at the last ASSEMBLY held in the Athenivum Hall on Friday evening, consequently the affair was not -o successful as was predicted. Great trouble had been bestow ed on the decorations, and bare walls were made beautiful with foliage and bunting and large mirrors. While dresses nredoininated. and the follow ing names and dreases were told me. Mias Dy mock, pale pink with fine lace, her sister in cream : Misses Watts, cream pompadour silks with velvet shoulder straps J Miss Fulton, white and yellow : Mrs R. B. £mith. black : Mrs Arthur Gore, black; Mrs G. Norman, black silk a la watteau; Miss Macfarlane, cream satin ; Miss Nelson, black, and brown sleeves ; Miss — Nelson, cream ; Mrs Dewee. black : Miss Chapman, pale pink ; Mrs Hamlin, violet silk ; Miss Horton, white ; Mrs Thompson (Christchurch), pretty white silk and chiffon ; Mrs Jarvis, black; Miss Dickey (Auckland), green and pink chiftbn: Miss

Hall looked elegant in white satin ; Miss H. Hitchings, handsome embroidered silk and chiffon: Mrs Tabuteau. black with cardinal ; Mrs W. E, Griffin (Wairoa). pink Liberty silk ; Miss Adair (Gisborne), white; Miss Campbell, while satin; Mrs Milne Thomson, white and green velvet; Miss Shaw, white; Miss Kennedy, white silk : Miss Rhodes, whit*-: Miss Balfour looked well in black : her cousin wore her tlebutante dress of white -ilk ; Miss Anderson, white with trails of pink roses; Mrs Von Dad lezen, black: Mrs Dixon, white silk and black velvet; Miss Twigg, white with blue velvet sleeves : Mrs Jarvis, black ; MUs Ethel Gurr, blue; the Misses Spencer, cream; Mrs Hamlin. \ iolet surah: Mrs Davidson, black sil k ; Lady Whitmore, handsome beetle wing embroidered on black silk ; Mrs H. Smith (Petane). black. HITHER AND THITHER. Mr Herman Van Haast is on a visit from Christchurch. Mr Spencer H. Gollan is in town looking none the worse for his fall off Norton at the Christchurch Meeting. Mrs W. F. Anderson is on a visit to Mrs Ackman. Christchuich. Miss Eva Smith (Dunedin) is visiting Mr and Mrs R. B. Smhh. of Bank of Australasia. Miss Stock (Invercargill) is on a visit to her brother. Miss Cornford has returned from a trip to Auckland.

Gladys.