WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue XXVI, 29 December 1900, Page 1228

WELLINGTON.

Dear Be*, December 20. Miss Richmond gave a. most delightful entertainment at her Kindergarten school in Bowen-street on Saturday morning. A large number of guests, chiefly consisting of the parents of the pupils, assembling and thoroughly enjoying the pretty action songs, dancing, marching, etc., of the pupils, who were all dressed Alike in white with scarlet sashes, the teachers. Miss Richmond, Miss Rolleston, Miss Hilda Williams, and Miss Lucy AtUaaon also wearing white

gowns with scarlet ties and belts. The hall was prettily decorated, and the whole acene a charming one, reflecting the greatest credit upon Miss Richmond, whose method of teaching and interesting and encouraging the young in their work seems an admirable one. Among the guests were:—• Mrs Richmond, Mrs Maurice Richmond, Lady Atkinson, Mrs Tudor Atkinson, Mr and Mrs A. Atkinson, Mrs Rhind, Mrs Field, Miss Hamilton, Mrs Firth, Mrs and Miss Tolhurst, Mrs and Miss Williams, Mrs McPherson, Dr. and Mrs Fell, Mr and Mrs Gee, Mr and Mrs Walter (Waikato), Mrs T. Wilford, Lady Stout, Mr and Mrs Lee, Mrs Fleming, Mr and Mrs Mantell, Mrs Stafford, Miss Carter, Mrs Milward, Mr and Mrs Cyril Tanner, Mrs Hoby, Mrs Morison, Mrs L. Reid, Mrs Easterfieid. Mrs Kendal), Mrs Collins, Mrs Anson, Mrs Symons, Mrs Anderson, Mrs and Miss Hislop, Miss Holmes, Mrs Grace, Mrs Barber, Miss Page, Mrs Stocker, and many others. Mr and Mrs Embling gave one of the largest and most successful garden parties ever given in Wellington on Thursday, from 4 till 7 o’clock. It turned out a most perfect day, quite hot and yet with a gentle breeze, and the sight of so many gaily dressed folk walking about in the lovely grounds was a eharming one. The garden was looking lovely, it being formerly that of Mrs Levin, who is now on her way out from Home, and a splendid band played at intervals during the afternoon under the trees. At the lower end of the garden a huge tent had been erected, and it was filled with dozens and dozens of small tables, each beautifully decorated and daintily laid out for four people, and with everything one could possibly wish for. Strawberries and cream and ices seemed perhaps more sought after than anything else, and it was hardly to be wondered at, it being our first really summer day. Mr and Mrs Embling must have stood for hours receiving on the law’n in front of the house, and fully 200 guests must have been present. Mrs Embling wore a handsome turquoise blue silk gown, veiled with black cheeked grenadine, and trained and with bows of black satin and a black pleated chiffon boa and a black straw toque with black tips and turquoise blue velvet and paste buckles. Among the guests were Mrs W. R. E. Brown, in violet and black; Mrs Balcombe Brown wore an' exquisitely embroiflered white muslin gbwii (over mauve"; and with broad epaulettes, the skirt flounced and ruched,’and a white and mauve hat; Mrs Richmond, a handsome black brocaded mantle and black and white bonnet; Miss Hamilton;' black satin and black and white bonnet; Mrs (Professor) Brown, a pretty pale green foulard silk figured with mauve, and with mauve velvet lapels over a white satin and lace vest; Mrs McTavish, pale green and white figured muslin and green and white tulle toque; Miss Haise, a cream and mauve figured gown; Miss E. Haise, white and blue: Mrs Parfitt, rich brown corded with salmon pink revers and toque with pink roses; Mrs Hacou, a black braided costume; Mrs Leckie, a handsome blaek gown and blaek and white bonnet with blue velvet; Mrs Adams, blaek coat and skirt; Mrs W. Fitzgerald, a very pretty, black satin trained gown with transparent sleeves and yoke of chiffon and edged with jet; Mrs Somerville, black; Mrs O’Connor, a handsome black spotted brocade gown and violet bonnet; Mrs Tweed, navy blue spotted foulard with revers of white satin and lace and mushroom hat with flowers; Mrs McPherson, a handsome white silk gown, trained and entirely covered with black lace, and black and white toque; Mrs Kendall, a grey coat and skirt; Mrs Blackett, black; Miss Blackett, fawn and mauve shot silk with velvet cuffs and collar and pretty hat to match; Mrs Edwin, blaek Satin, trained with white chiffon fichu, spotted with black; Misd Edwin, silver grey broche; Mrs Gee, a blue and white foulard gown and pretty chiffon toque and chiffon boa; Mrs Cyril Tanner, green figured muslin; Mrs Rhind, black; Mrs Quick, black; Miss Quick, white with insertion and black toque with pink roses; Miss M. Quick, a cream figured gown and mushroom hat with flowers; Mrs Gillon, black and white check, trained, and black toque; Mrs Watson, a black broche trained skirt and grey silk blouse and and pink chiffon toque; Miss Barron, green corded silk, and pretty white and pink chiffon toque; Miss Barron,

white; Mrs Biss, sage green canvas with white satin vest, white hat; Mrs Macintosh, black; Miss Macintosh, orange veiled with ecru muslin and insertion, burnt straw hat with orange flowers under the brim, and her sister in white muslin much trimmed with lace insertion; Mrs Simpson, a cream figured gown; Mrs Duncan, black, with white lapels, black and white bonnet; Mrs Travers, a very pretty white embroidered gown, with burnt straw hat with pink silk an roses;'Mrs Williams, silver grey brocade, and cape trimmed with sequins, and black and white bonnet; Miss Hilda Williams, electric blue silk, with white bodice insertioned with ecru, and electric blue piped sleeves, black toque; Miss Coleridge, white; Mrs Tolhurst, a very handsome black gown; Miss Tolhurst, oyster grey, with cream insertion, and pretty white hat; Mrs T. Young, blue coat and white front; and hat; Mrs Gerald Tolhurst, grey coat and skirt; Miss Sprott, white muslin, with lace and insertion; Mrs W. Pharazyn, black trained gown; Miss Pharazyn, pale green silk, burnt straw hat with black velvet and pink roses; Mrs Walter (Waikato), bluish grey gown with wide revers of white silk, white chiffon hat with knots of turquoise velvet and white aigrettes; Mrs Matthews (Waikato), fawn coat and skirt, white chiffon vest, and fawn and blue tulle toque with high white ospreys; Mrs Wallis, white and blue figured muslin, black hat turned up with pink roses; Mrs Tuckey, black satin, black and mauve bonnet; Mrs Collins, cream, with rows and rows of eeru insertion, and large black hat with big rosettes of pale blue, pink, and mauve chiffon; Miss Harcourt, white silk, much tucked and trimmed with lace; Mrs Pynsent, lovely mauve silk, trained and veiled with black, white bonnet with flowers; Mrs Gore, black brocade, black and white bonnet; Mrs Hislop, grey, with black and white lapels; Miss Hislop, pretty figured muslin; Mrs Grace, a very hanasome black trained gown edged with, cream lace in tiny flounces, gold and black and white bonnet; Miss Grace, pretty white muslin; Mrs W. Turnbull, a handsome white foulard figured with brown and blue, and black toque with flowers; Mrs Loughnan, grey;; Mrs H. Burns, black, and black toque; Mrs BristoWj a very pretty pale grey gown.wHJi ecru insertion, grey feather, boa. and";grey., mushroom ha£; Mrs : Fulton, pink floweredi. muslin, edged with narrow black velvet rib--bon, and toque to match; Mrs Milward, a cream and mauve figured muslin,' and cream hat with mauve trimming; Mrs Ross, handsome black satin, and black toque; Mrs Malcolm Ross, a pretty pale grey silk canvas gown, with yoke of grey chiffon and steel embroidery, hat to match; Mrs Hales, a grey gown with white front cressed with black velvet, black and white bonnet; Miss Brandon, a pretty cornflower blue gown, piped, and with cream lace under sleeves; Miss A. Brandon, pink figured muslin; Mrs Miles, deep blue broche, with white front, black toque; Miss Miles, white; Mrs Beauchamp, blue and white foulard, and cream hat with black velvet and flowers; Mrs Waters, grey Eton costume, with white front crossed with black velvet; Miss Ashcroft, white; Mrs Firth, a striking gown of pale grey, with white vest and belt, and trimmings of steel embroidery and silver fringe, toque to match; Mrs Martin, grey bengaline silk, black hat; Mrs Stuart, pink; Mrs Dyer, black; Mrs Prouse, fawn and pink shot silk, with an overdress of black embroidered net, black toque; Miss Prouse, white; Mrs Buckie, a black, and white striped gown; Mrs Strang, a very pretty smoke grey canvas, with much ecru insertion and black toque; Miss Reid, pretty pink muslin, with lace flounces; Miss Simpson, yellow figured delaine, burnt straw hat with black velvet and roses; Mrs De Renzi, cornflower blue, with toque to match; Mrs Friend, black; Miss Friend, cornflower blue; Mrs C. Pearce, electrio blue gown, tucked: Mrs Seed, a mauve and black gown; Miss Seed, pale grey and pretty grey tucked chiffon toque with grey tips; Miss Seed, a pretty cream figured gown, trimmed wjth velvet, and bonnet to match; Miss Tripe, a white muslin gown with lace and insertion, and pretty white straw toque with tips and chiffon; Mrs Bucholtz, black and white check with white revers, and black hat with tips and paste buckles; Mrs McCarthy, a pretty cr«am soft trained gown with zouave of transparent black embroidered net,

pink folded chiffon toque; Miss Heywood, grey gown and white hat; Miss Sl.errett, black, and large black hat with feathers; Mrs Watkins, blue an« white foulard, with white satin yoke, large hat to match; also Mrs and the Misses Logan, Dr. Cahill, Mrs War<(. Mrs A. Brandon, Rev. Mr Sprott, Rev. Butterfield, Professor Clarke (Christchurch), Professor Easterfield, Mrs and the Misses Fancourt, Mrs Rotheram, Mrs and Miss Ecclesfield, Mrs and the Misses Kennedy, Mrs Ward, Mrs Hogben, Mr and Mrs G. Campbell, Miss Watkins, Dr. and Mrs Fitchett, Mr and Mrs L. Wilson, Aft's K. Macdonald, Mrs and Miss McKellar, Mrs McGregor, Miss Graham, Mrs Didsbury, Dr. and Mrs Young, Mr J. Coates, Mr Joynt, Mrs Ewen, Dr. Adams, Messrs Tolhurst, Brown, Kennedy, Reid, Beauchamp, Harcourt, Luckie, Quick, .Itficroft, Walter, Matthews, Young, Milward, Duncan, Nathan, Martin, Miles, Gee, and Dr. de Renzi, Dr. Hislop, and many others. . . OPHELIA.