NEW PLYMOUTH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue VI, 5 August 1899, Page 206

NEW PLYMOUTH.

Dear Bee, July 27. ‘ A BALL, in aid of the Recreation Grounds, was held in the Theatre Royal last week, and was a great success, both socially and financially. A special word of praise is due to the hon. secretaries, Mr J. C. George and Mr D. Teed, jun., who spared neither time nor trouble. A recherche supper, good music, and a perfect floor, all contributing to the comfort and pleasure of the company, who passed a very enjoyable evening. Among those present were:—Miss Fookes, primrose silk; Miss —. Fookes. blue, trimmed with white lace; Miss Jacob, White, with pink flowers on corsage; Miss Teed, white and yellow sash, aigrette in hair; Miss C. Cock, pale pink; Miss Ellis, pink muslin; Miss Brewer (Inglewood) looked well in green; Miss Taylor, white satin; Miss I. Ellis, looked pretty in pink; Miss McAllum, in pink, and her sister wore blue; Miss Skeet, cream and yellow; Miss Carrie Bayly, white and scarlet flowers on decolletage; Miss H. Drake, white silk; Miss F. Avery, white figured silk and sequin trimmings; Miss A. Avery, green and pink; Mrs H. Bailey, white and pink flowers; Miss Burgess, orange silk, trimmed with black: Miss Rawson, green; Mrs Messenger, black and yellow; Miss Jackson, grey, trimmed with black; Mrs Penn, pale heliotrqne; Miss Maule, cream; Miss silk, and black lace blouse,“ack silk skirt; Miss Pearce looked pretty in a dainty white muslin, with satin sash; Miss Crocker, blue and satin sleeves: 1 Miss Hill, white muslin; Miss Hart (Auckland), white; Mrs McCleland,. black merveilleux, with scarlets silk sorsage; Miss Kirkby, green and

White; Miss M. Robinson, eream, with yellow satin trimmings; Miss B. Kirkfcy, pale yeHow; Miss Douglas, pink and green sash; Mrs Dowling, white and yellow; Miss Treely, white and heliotrope sash; Miss Hoby, green and white chiffon; Miss Fraser, cream and lace frills; Miss J. Fraser, pretty blue nun’s veiling, made short waisted, and trimmed with frills of-white lace; Mrs Hall, black and yellow chiffon fichu; Miss Ramson, white and satin trimmings; Mrs Blyth, black and scarlet flowers on decolletage; Mrs G. Newman, pink silk blouse, trimmed with black, black silk skirt; Mrs J. C. George, black and white skirt, white silk bodice, veiled in black net; Miss Pearce, pale blue, darker blue satin sash; Mrs Fookes, pale blue; Mrs Abe Goldwater, magenta silk, veiled in’ black lace; Mrs H. Mace, pale blue, with sky blue trimmings; Miss Arrow, pink; Miss C. George, pink, veiled in white; Mrs Sykes, pink; Mrs Fenion, yellow and black chiffon blouse, black silk skirt; Miss Smith, white; Miss Sadler, black and wliite hi<*e; ’Mrs ‘C. T. Mills, black, en traine. Among the gentlemen were: Messrs Messenger, Mills, Fookes, Roy, Robinson (2), Webster, Didsbury, Mclntyre, Paul, Scott, Cock, (2j, Cottier, Shaw (2), Paterson, Woodhouse, Teed, Thomson (2), Drake, Ramson, Bayley, Penn, Parker, Wynn-Williams, Spence, Tabor, Mace, Sykes, Hughes, Goldwater (2), Govett, Moulton, Holdsworth, McTaggart, Drs. Home and McClelland, etc.

A CONCERT was given in St. Andrew’s Hall, New Plymouth, last Wednesday evening, to bid farewell to Mr Archie MacDiarmid, who is leaving New Plymouth to complete his engineering course at Southland Ironworks, Invercargill, for joining the New Zealand Shipping Company’s service. At this concert the opportunity was taken to welcome back Mr Evan Evans, who has just completed a most successful course of electrical engineering in Great Britain and on the Continent. Rev. Air Osborne presented Mr MacDiarmid, on behalf of the congregation of St. Andrew’s Church, with a travelling rug and straps and small handbag, and. on .behalf of the choir a set of gold sleeve-links and’pendant compass. NANCY LEE. •