NEW PLYMOUTH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue VII, 17 February 1900, Page 321

NEW PLYMOUTH.

Dear Bee, February 9. Being fine weather a large number of people assembled on the local TENNIS GROUNDS on Thursday and Friday afternoons to witness the district championship games. Dainty afternoon tea was served in a large marquee at little tables, which were prettily decorated with yellow. During the afternoon music was sweetly rendered by the Town Band. The arrangements were ably carried out by Mr If. M. Didsbury, secretary, and members of the committee. Amongst the Ladies present were: Misses Kirkby (2), white muslin; Mrs Oswin. blue cheque with cerise neck and waist-bands, hat en suite; Mrs Hill, fawn skirt, pink blouse; Mrs Pollen, pink blouse, dark skirt, hat to match; Miss Cornwall, heliotrope; Miss I. Cornwall, white silk blouse, white pique skirt; Misses Stanford (2), blue; Miss Walker, cream muslin over yellow, yellow satin sash; Miss Dalziel, white; Misses Humphries, black, white trimmings; Mrs Leatham, white pique. Tuscan hat trimmed with pink; Miss Testa, fawn; Mrs Bead, black; Mrs Watkins, grey; Misses Bayly (2), white pique costumes, pink and yellow tics respectively; Miss Holdsworth, stripe blouse, black skirt, black hat with violet trimmings; Miss Fookes, white blouse trimmed with heliotrope, dark skirt; Mrs and Miss Nicholson: Miss Paul, white muslin blouse, white pique skirt, hat with lilacs; Miss J. Lawson, blue; Miss B. Webster, white; Mrs McKellar, grey; Miss McKellar, white: Misses Smith (2): Mrs Fenton, blue French muslin, black Tuscan hats trimmed with white; Miss West, blaek and white silk blouse, white pique skirt; Mrs Pott; Miss Jacob; Mrs Home, grey costume, hat en suite; Miss Grant, blue; Miss Stewart (Wellington), blaek silk grenadine over white, toque to correspond; Mrs Mac Diarmid, brown bonnet with pink; Miss Mac Diarmid, blue blouse, white pique skirt; Miss Tuke, white; Mrs Penn, blaek and white check, braided with black velvet; Mrs Stanford, blaek; Mrs Bird (North Shore); Miss M. Roy, white; Mrs Robinson, black, bonnet with heliotrope; Miss Robinson, white; Mrs Pridham; Miss Thomson. pink; Mrs Meldrum, eream: Miss Carthew, shot grey coat and skirt; Miss Hirst, blaek: Miss Hamerton, brown; Miss Kent (Auckland), white muslin over yellow; Mrs W. Skinner; Miss 1. Skinner, yellow veiled in white muslin; Miss Devenish; Miss Piekmere (Auckland), light costume; Mrs W. Newman; Mrs Wright, pretty blue muslin; Mrs Payne, white and brown skirt; Miss N. Skeet, white; Miss Read; Miss Powdrell (Patea); Miss Payne (Patea), etc. There was splendid weather for the SECOND DAY'S play, but not so many people to witness it. Mrs Forte was wearing a white pique skirt, pink blouse, white hat; Mrs Mac Diarmid, heliotrope muslin, bat with violets; Mrs Baker, fawn; Miss Baker, blue blouse, grey skirt: Mrs Cornwall, black; Mrs A. Fookes, grey costume; Mrs Home; Mrs McKellar, holland costume, trimmed with white; Mrs Penn, check blouse, dark skirt; Mrs Leatham, pretty green silk blouse, cream yoke, black skirt; Mrs Pollen: Mrs 11. Webster, fawn; Mrs Standish, black brocaded satin; Miss Sadler, white blouse, black skirt; Miss Walker, white muslin; Mrs Bird, black; Misses Bayly NANCY LEU.

NANCY LEE.