NAPIER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XIV, 4 April 1903, Page 960

NAPIER.

Dear Bee. ’ 1 March 27. The usual Autumn Race Meeting was held at Napier Park on Tuesday and Wednesday. On the stand there was a goodly show, and some smart dresses were worn. Mrs P. S. McLean looked well in a cornflower blue dress, trimmed with guipure lace, hat to match; Mrs Bowen was in a pink and white flowered muslin dress and a white chip hat,.trimmed with pink: Airs R. B. Smith looked well in pale grey with a white chiffon boa ami a grey hat; Airs Kinross White wore pale blue, trimmed with white laee, and a black hat; Airs Russell Duncan wore a becoming uress of grey; Airs Donnelly was in black and white; Mrs Bradley looked well in a cream satin blouse, a black skirt, and a becoming burnt straw hat, trimmed with pink rib, bon; Airs Coleman had a tussore silk dust cloak over a black and white dress, and a black bonnet with pink roses: Afiss Coleman wore a white coat and skirt and a picture hat; Afiss Simcox (Porangahatt! wore pink silk; Airs A. Kennedy wore a white blouse, a black skirt, and a large hat with feathers; Airs Aloeller had a cream dress ar I a black hat, trimmed with pale blue: Aliss Palmer also wore a cream dress and a black hat; Airs Gordon was in black and cream.

The Cathedral choir has arranged to give a concert in the Theatre Royal on August 14th. Amongst those who have consented to sing are Aliss Large and Airs Adair Blythe, of Masterton. At a meeting of the Cathedral Vestry on Tuesday evening last the Dean of AVaiapu was presented with a purse of 225 sovereigns as a mark of the esteem in which he is and has been held by his parishioners during his twenty-five years’

residence amongst them. It is owing to his exertions that Napier has its beautiful Cathedral, which, so far, is the beat in the colony. The Dean will leave Napier next week to join the Runie at Sydney, and will be absent for six or seven months.

Yesterday afternoon a “Kitchen Tea” was given by Airs Gore, of the Marine Parade, for Aliss Aluriel Balfour, vho is to be married to Air Johnston next month. Airs Gore looked well in a black costume, the skirt strapped with glace silk; Aliss Burke bad a white silk blouse and a black skirt; Miss Ethel Burke wore a soft black dress: Aliss Ella Burke was in a pretty white silk b’ouse and a dark skirt; Afiss Aluriel Balfour had a very dainty tucked white silk blouse, a black skirt, and a black hat; Afiss Nellie Cotterill wore black, large black picture hat; Airs Bowen was attired in a very stylish green linen costume, trimmed with guipure laee. and a burnt straw hat; Airs James AlcLean also wore green; Airs Hamlin had a black dress and a hat to match; Mrs Dewes’ grass lawn gown was trimmed with guipure lace, and she wore a small straw hat: Airs R. B. Smith had a dainty grey and white costume; Airs Kight had a dark blue muslin dress and a white hat; All's Von Dadelzen looked well in btaek. and her becoming hat was trimmed with feathers; Airs De Lisle had a black and white muslin costume, and a white hat; Airs Russell Dunean was dressed in grey; Airs Ceeil Comt'ord looked dainty in a grass lawn dress, trimmed with insertion and lace of the same colour, large picture hat to match; Airs Henley had a very stylish costume of green silk, black hat: Aliss Shaw wore a tussore silk dress with frills round the skirt, straw toque; Miss Twigg was in soft white silk with laee sleeves, her hat was trimmed with pink chiffon; Aliss Hovel! bad a muslin dress of a very becoming shade of pale green, her black chiffon hat was adorned with a long white feather; Aliss Bendall (Wellington) wore a green sash with her white dress; AfissTodd had a very pretty white dress and a blue and black hat; Afiss Wilson wore a dark blue coat and skirt and a sailor hat; Afiss Hoadley had a white pique costume, black hat; AEss Afartin looked well in a white silk blouse,

a dark skirt, and a becoming hat, trimmed with roses; Miss Sutton wore fawn and pink; Miss C. Sutton was in blue muslin, black hat: Miss F. Williams wore a black skirt, a white silk blouse, and a black hat; Miss Elsie McLean also had a light blouse and a darlTskirt; Miss Fannin was in a dark blue muslin costume with white lace on the bodice, large straw hat; Miss Margoliouth had a white blouse, a black skirt, and a black hat; Miss lolanthe MargoTiouth’s white silk dress was trimmed with lace and insertion, and she wore a black hat with fea-

thers.

MARJORIE.