NEW PLYMOUTH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue XXVI, 29 June 1901, Page 1235

NEW PLYMOUTH.

Dear Bee, June 7. The Taranaki Rifles held their annual BALL on Monday evening in the Drill Hall, and it was a great success, there being about 250 people present. The committee responsible for the arrangements was composed of Captain Okey, Lieutenants Hooker and Cock, Sergeants Lester, Harvey, and Lever (secretary), Corporal Boulton, and Privates Bacon, Davidson, Doughty, Friar, Smith, and Simons. The M.CJ’s were Captain Taunton (of the Guards), Sergeant Lister, and Messrs E. Humphries and F. NewalL The music, provided by Mr McKinnon Bain’s orchestra, was much appreciated. Extras were played by Mrs Percy Webster and Misses Davidson, Hill, and Pearce. The hall was profusely decorated, and the floor was in splendid order. The supper was in the hands of a ladies’ committee, consisting of Mesdames Doekrill, Cock, S. Hill, T. Sole, W. Bennett, and H. Whittington, who deserve the greatest praise. Among the ladies present I noticed Mrs (Captain) Davidson, black and white; Mrs Oswrn, scarlet silk blouse, transparent yoke, black skirt; Mrs Mills, black merveilleux, laca fichu; Mrs Hoby, black and white; Mrs Messenger, dark green velvet; Mrs Ab. Goldwater, black and jet; Mrs Paul, black and silver net; Miss O. Wilkinson, cream lustre with satin trimmings; Mrs Dockrill (Mayoress), black; Mrs Percy Webster, grey and white; Mrs Taunton, blue plaid blouse, dark skirt; Mrs Hall; Miss Abbott, green satin and jet trimmings; Miss Parker, pink; Miss Lewis, white silk trimmed with black velvet bebe ribbon; Misses Humphries (2, Napier) were much admired; one wore gold silk ■with net sleeves, while the other wore red satin; Miss Hill, white; Miss Moverly, pink blouse, dark skirt; Miss Hoby, black, with scarlet flowers; her sister wore white; Miss E. Pearce, pretty cream striped satin; Miss K. Jackson, white silk and chiffon; Miss N. Curtis (Wellington), cerise silk blouse, dark skirt; Miss J. McAlpine, pretty blue silk blouse, black skirt; Miss Edgcumbe, white and blue; Miss G. Natherson was much admired in black velvet, trimmed with rucked net, cerise satin roses in hair; Miss Page, white and blue; Miss M. Pearce, white; Miss Nichol, pretty black and white net b’ouse over red silk, dark skirt; Miss Dixon (Petone), white; Miss Tippins, yellow silk blouse, green striped skirt; Misses Cock (2), {>retty white muslins, trimmed with ace; Miss Bullot, scarlet silk blouse, with white flowers on shoulder,dark skirt; Miss A. Trigger, white, with green sadh; Miss Treeby, black; Miss Abbott, white; Miss Tunbridge, cream; etc. Among the gentlemen weru Messrs Hopkins, McArra, Humphries, Mins, Cock, Messenger, Goldwater, Coek, Holdsworth, Messenger, Gilmour, Russell, Lewis, Brasch, Holmes, Berridge, Tunbridge,

Abbott, Treeby, Lister, Neil, Mac Diarmid, Beckett, Brown, Moverly, Cottier, Edgcumbe, Moon. There was a CONCERT last Friday evening, held tn the Theatre Royal, for the benefit of Mrs H. Sturmey, who has lately lost her husband. The stage was beautifully deeorated with pungas and other ferns, lightened with Chinese lanterns, making the whole look like a fairy scene. The ladies chiefly reaponsihte for the arrangements for the- concert were Mrs Paul, assisted by Mrs Fred Watson, and Misses Humphries and Teed. The tickets taken at the door valued £53, in addition to which it Is believed a number of tickets purchased were not used. An excellent programme was arranged.

NANCY LEE.