WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue XXIV, 11 June 1904, Page 52

WELLINGTON.

Dear Bee. June 3. Quite a wave of prescssional gaiety has been setting in for the last week or two. and hopes are being held out of quite a gay season. Teas were given last week by Mrs- Sprott. Mrs. Coleridge, Miss Kane, and Miss Hoggard, the latter's being of the “curio” variety. MISS KANE'S GUESTS always look for some novel and amusing competition, and they were not disappointed on Wednesday last when they found they were expected to embark on an "alliterative journey round the world." Some startlingly original tours were planned; and even Cook's agents would be staggered if asked to arrange a trip to "Bombay to blushingly boast about bunions.” while the girl who announced her intention of going to Masterton to meet a moral millionaire evidently had ambitious matrimonial aspirations. "K” was perhaps the hardest letter to negotiate, and the desire to be phonetic and spell “eahn” or "candied,” etc., with a "k” was cruel in its intensity. The prize, a black lace fan, embroidered with sequins, was won by Miss Edwin. Miss Kane wore a white voile, the skirt having a hip-yoke of guipure lace, which also adorned the delicately tinted chine blouse. Her guest, Miss Wright, was iu white cloth, with insertions of lace; and Miss Osborne-Gibbs, who was helping with the tea. was also in white, made with an elaboratelytucked overskirt and a deep foot flounce. Miss Finch wore navy serge and a blue hat, with green wings; Miss Jell, black and white flaked tweed, and pelerine collar strapped with white; Miss Ida Nelson was in grey, with minerver furs; Miss Vera Macdonald’s black crepe de chine was horizontally gauged and appliqued with tinted lace, and her white beaver hat was wreathed with green leaves; Miss Seed was wearing pastel blue cloth and a black picture hat; Miss Tolhurst had a chestnut brown voile, with effective trimmings of thick cord, and tassels; Miss Fulton's dress was of red. with stole collar of white fur: Miss Edwin wore a dark tweed dress and a red hat; her sister was in pale blue voile: Miss Browne (Dunedin), a dark blue tailor-made, and blue was also the colour of Miss Stafford’s bolero costume; Miss Hoggard and Miss Ewen both wore Guard’s coats over their light dre-ses; Miss MacGregor, dull blue, with bands of Oriental embroidery, and a Wack hat: "Miss Berre’s dark green zibeline had a pelerine collar bordered with fringe. A bitterly cold, wet day. with gusts of wind, quite spoilt the proceedings when

Sir Joseph Ward went out to Petowa to open THE NEW RAILWAY STATION, which is somehow supposed to symbolise the longed-for straightening of the railway line. The building was gaily decorated with ferns—which enjoyed the rain—and with bunting, which dangled damp and lugubrious in the wind. Lady Ward, who accompanied Sir Joseph, looked very well in a dark blue dress, long sealskin coat, and becoming toque. Two dear little girls. Aliases Dorothy Cotton and Barbara Rodger, dressed in dainty white silk dresses, presented Lady AAard with an artistic shower bouquet. THE AT HOME GIVEN BY AIRS SPROTT and her daughter (Airs Coleridge) was quite a large affair, but St. Paul’s A’icarage is so admirably adapted to entertaining that the guests wandered about at will without any overcrowding. The tea-table was artistically decorated with red chrysanthemums and Japanese maple. Airs Sprott and Airs Coleridge received their guests in the hall, Airs Sprott wearing a black crepe de chine skirt and a blouse of pale heliotrope Louisine with a pelerine collar and deep ruffles of tinted lace; Airs Coleridge wore a white cloth skirt and a blouse of Orient satin with much herringboning. Among those present were Airs Wallis, wearing marron brown frieze with a blue vest, and an elaborate pelerine of pale blue panne, herringboned with gold braid; Airs Elgar, dull petunia doth with revers and cuffs of red satin, studded with gold buttons, and jabot and ruffles of tinted Alencon lace, hat of petunia-tinted panne with elusters of shaded flowers; Airs Harrison, pale blue frieze, the flounces hemmed with white cloth, grey panne collar and white cloth revers: Misses Williams, pale blue voile dresses and long white coats; Airs Leckie. black voile and biocaded coat; Airs F. Leckie, tabae brown cloth with pattes of dark brown velvet and of white cloth, ruffles of tinted lace, large white beaver hat with ruche of white panne and steel buckles; Aliss Coleridge, dull blue bolero costume and scarlet hat; Mrs A. Pearee. black voile and long sealskin coat, cerise hat; Airs R. Brown, champagne-tinted voile, strapped with brown glace: Aliss AlcTavish, navy blue tailor-made: Aliss Twigg, pale blue frieze and white furs; Airs Fitchett, seal brown zibeline with cravat of lace; Aliss Brown, brown cloth and furs; Aliss Harcourt, navy serge and black hat; Aliss Fitzgerald, black voile, shirred horizontally, appliques of Paris lace, and deep belt of pale blue silk; Airs Findlay, dull blue frieze and long seal coat, hat of rose-eoloured velvet; Airs H. Parker, dull prune cloth and picture hat.

SUCH A JOLLY LITTLE DANCE was given one night hist week by Miss Ewea. .Some thirty or forty young ]H-ople met at Mrs Ewen's, and then adjourned across the road to Lady Stout's, where the ballroom bad been hospitably placed at their disposal. Darning was kej>t up until midnight, when tile party returned to a very merry supper. Airs Ewen wore black satin and sequins with a trail of mauve flowers on the corsage; Ewen was iu white crepe de chine, much shirred, and with a pretty ribbon sash; Aliss Greta Ewen wore a dress of white -ilk with many tucks and much insertion; Aliss G. Riley was also in white: Lady Stout wore black brocade with some handsome laee.

Following the example of other towns in New Zealand. AVellington is shortly to have a revival of roller skating. Already the specially built hall in Aivianstreet is being put in order again after some years’ disuse, and a large supply of skates is on its way from America. There is a rumour that a Kinking Club is to be got up for the winter months, and. well-organised, it should be very popular, and will do much to enliven the slack parts of the session. Rinking is such a fascinating pastime that the elub should have a highly fascinating ca reer.

OPHELIA.