BLENHEIM.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue I, 7 January 1899, Page 26

BLENHEIM.

Dear Hee, December 19. Mr and Mrs J. Conoily’s charming residence at Springlands was the centre of attraction to their friends on Friday afternoon, when Mrs Conolly gave a GARDEN PARTY. The weather was all that could be wished for an al fresco entertainment, and despite the rather dry time of year, the garden was brilliant with flowers. At the end of the house, adjacent to the tennis lawn, a long table decorated with flowers and bountifully set out with all sorts of delicacies for afternoon tea was placed in the shade, whilst here and there a few chairs were arranged near small tables on which were pretty dishes of sweetmeats. On the other side of the grounds, near the pretty little stream, knots of easy chairs were placed at intervals, tables of goodies being near at hand. Here, under the trees that fringe the banks, was a pleasant cool retreat, where those who pleased could sit and chat and watch the graceful white swans. Mrs Conolly wore a striking dress of pale pink and green, with insertion over pink, and green trimming; Mrs J. Mowat wore a bluish grey jacket and skirt; Mrs A. P. Green, a muslin dress of two shades of heliotrope, lavishly triinmed with cream insertion arranged pointwise on the bodice, back and front, collar, cuffs, and waist were finished with heliotrope ribbon, stylish hat to match; Mrs Griffiths, a black dress, sprigged with yellow, black bonnet, brightened with pink flowers; Mrs F. Greenfield, greenish grey coat and skirt, tan vest; Mrs Mac Shane, black skirt, velvet bodice, and black hat trimmed with yellow ribbon and black quills; Mrs G. W. Mclntosh, green skirt and striped blouse; Mrs Chaytor, black and white silk, front of tiny white chiffon frills, .edged with black, black hat; Mrs Anderson, heliotrope muslin, trimmed with black velvet ribbon, black hat, with upstanding black feathers; Mrs Monro; Mrs Smith, black; Mrs Orr. brown skirt, white muslin blouse; Mrs Bright; Mrs Nancarrow (Dunedin), blue and yellow shot dress, becoming bonnet; Mrs Farmar, black dress and mantle; Mrs Mead, handsome green shot silk; Mrs Black, fawn skirt, white blouse; Mrs Stoney, grey dress, black mantle; Mrs Pulliene (Adelaide, S.A.), Mrs Rogers; Mrs Clouston, white pique dress; Mrs P. Douslin; Mrs C. W. Adams, Mrs B. Clouston, Mrs Grace, Mrs Howard, Mrs Duckworth, Mrs Hubbard. Mrs Jackson, Mrs A. Mowat, Mrs G. Robinson, Mrs H. J. Howard; Miss E. Chaytor, a pretty grey patterned dress, with front of pale blue, pretty hat; Miss Hildreth, black; Mis* Johnston, pretty pink muslin, the bodice of alternate rows of tucks and white insertion, white moire sash; Miss B. Farmar, white dotted muslin; Miss B. Dyer (Wellington), white pique dress, white hat, with white wings; Miss Giblin, grey costume; Miss Waddy. white pique, with narrow green stripe, sailor hat; Miss Nicholson. black coat and skirt, black hat, with touches of scarlet; Miss Adams, greenish muslin, with white insertion. Tuscan hat, with white wings and ribbon; Miss Beauchamp (‘Anikawa.’ Queen Charlotte’s Sound), dark skirt, red and white checked blouse, sailor hat; Miss L. Beauchamp, black skirt, blue and white checked blouse; Miss Kate Smith, Miss J. Chaytor, Miss McTjauchlan, the Misses Bull (2), Miss Horton, Miss Ferguson, Miss S. Gard. Miss Huddleston, Miss Maclaine, and Messrs Orr, Conolly, Greenfield, Stoney, Horton (2), C. W. Adams, Fish. W. Jeffries. Black, Dymock, Taylor, A. Green, C. Symons (England), Pulliene. Burden, Stubbs, D. Griffiths, Stow. It. Mclntyre, Maclaine, and others. On Tuesday evening the first heats for the Rowing Club’s I’air-oar races were rowed for trophies presented by Messrs T. Watson and J. McKinley. On Wednesday evening some more were rowed, and on Thursday the finals, Messrs J. M. Jackson and C. E. Mac Shane being the victors.

FRIDA.