NAPIER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue X, 5 March 1898, Page 291

NAPIER.

Dear Bee, February 24. The cricket season may now be considered at its height, and INTERESTING MATCHES are played nearly every Saturday at the Recreation Ground. Last Friday a match took place between Napier and a team representing Messrs Williamson and Musgrove’s ‘Sign of the Cross’ Company. The latter won the toss and ran up a score of 56. Napier, however, passed this with 152 for 7 wickets. Afternoon tea was given by Mesdames Logan and Carlile, the former looking well in light brown, and a black hat with plumes, the latter wearing a pink costume, trimmed with coffee-coloured guipure lace, and a black lace hat with pink roses; Mrs James McLean was in black crepon and lace, and her picture hat was trimmed with pansies; Mrs Russell Duncan wore grey cloth, with a white waistcoat and sailor hat; Mrs Hoadley wore black, with a pretty heliotrope front, and bonnet with heliotrope flowers; Mrs Derry had a lovely gown of green and pink, and a white hat trimmed with pink roses; Mrs Fenwick was prettily dressed in white muslin; Mrs Sainsbury was in black, the bodice arranged with lace and jet; Mrs Lusk looked well in a fawn cloth coat and skirt, with vest of white silk, and sailor hat; Mrs Lines wore dark brown cashmere, with vest of pale blue silk and guipure lace; Miss Hoadley was in white pique, relieved with green, her large hat trimmed with white feathers and ribbon; Miss Nairn wore white pique, relieved with red, and a Leghorn hat trimmed with white ribbon; Miss Wood was also in white, with a sailor hat. Two more tournaments are to be played shortly at the Hawke’s Bay Tennis Courts, Men’s Handicap Singles and Combined Handicap Doubles, although so far there are not many entries for the latter. Some of those at the courts on Saturday were Mrs Logan, in a dark skirt and a pretty blouse of soft silk trimmed with Indian embroidery; Mrs Ronald, in black, with a white lace cravat; Mrs Lines, in a dark blouse and a light skirt; Mrs James McLean wore black, and Miss' Page was in heliotrope muslin; Misses Spencer (2), Wood, Locking (2j. Sutton, etc. MARJORIE.