NEW PLYMOUTH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 20 January 1906, Page 47

NEW PLYMOUTH.

Dear Bee, January 13. Now that we arc well into the sum met- weather, picnics, tennis and garden parties, and moonlight recursions are the order of the day. On Friday afternoon Mrs Baker gave A SMALL TEA at her house in Gilbert street for Miss de Montalk, who is her guest. A proverb and personality guessing competition was provided for the amusement of the guests. The prizes were won by Miss de Montalk and Miss Fraser. Mrs Baker wore a handsknne black silk dress; Miss Baker, very pretty white embroidered silk blouse, cream voile skirt; Miss de Montalk, eream nuns’ veiling, yoke and cuffs of lace, heliotrope sash; Miss Webster, cream voile with ecru insertion ami medallions, pink chiffon hat; her sister also wore cream voile and a blue chiffon hat; Miss Evans, white embroidered lawn, very pretty hat of white tulle with a crown of pink rosebuds and maidenhair fern; Miss Skinner, white embroidered linen, green flowered belt, green tulle hat trimmed with red roses; Miss Kent

(Auckland)., blue voiktte pretty eream lace vest, white chiffon mid valencien lies hat trimmed with yellow roses; Mi m Winnie Kent, pah* blue frilled muslin, eream hat tr.aimed with blue; Miss Fraser, very pretty embroidered white muslin, r,-d straw hat. wreathed with white roses; Miss .1. Fraser, pale blue and white checked muslin, with a white yoke, blue straw hat; Miss .Millar (Christchurch), white muslin, with a green sash, black feathered hat; Miss Tothill, r<£vy blue vcgle, black hat: Miss A. Kemp, vieux rote voile, with a eream yoke, brown hat; Miss Gray, pale green voile, hat with green rib lion; Miss ,1. Gray, e.-ru voile triinm* d with lace, cream hut with pale blue. On Saturday there were quite a num her of people at THE TENNIS tor RTS. Tea was presided over by Misses Wil son, King, and Simpson. Among those present I noticed: —Mis W. Webster, in navy blue silk, black bonnet wit h pale blue; Mrs Roy. pink linen, while tulle hat trimmed with black; Mrs J. E. Wilson, pretty navy- blue voile with cream lape vest, . blaek toque: Mrs Heard, white embroidered linen blouse, grey skirt, white Valenciennes hue hat trimmed with blue Howers; Mrs Penn lovely white insertioned muslin, heliotrope hat trimmed with lilae; Mrs FitzHerbert, beautiful cream voil; dries trimmed with laee. white gathe.red tulle bat; Mrs Sladden. black spoil -d muslin, white vest with heliotrope velvet bows, black hat with lilae; Mrs 11. Gray, holland skirl, cream silk blouse, and brown hat; Mrs Claude Weston, blue grenadine dress, pretty toque of blue and white hyacinths; Mrs Collin . pale grey coat and skirt blaek feather ed hat; Miss Dixon, white lawn, green tulle toque trimmed with violets; Mi-s George, white embroiderer] muslin, white and heliotrope hat ; Miss Cotto; ill, heliotrope muslin, burnt straw hat; Miss Knight, white silk blouse, Ida I. skirt, pretty grey hat; Miss J. MeKelar, strawberry coloured linen with white embroidered yokq, burnt strawhat; .Miss Roy, cream Indian muslin, embroidered in white and red, black hat; Miss Fraser, handsomely. embroidered white lawn, scarlet hat : Miss, Millar (Christchurch), white lawn, blaek hat with feathers; Miss Holdsworth, green silk blouse, cream voile skirt, cream straw hat trimmed with green tulle and violets: Miss Skinner, white linen, green crinoline hat; Miss Kent (Auckland), pink frilled organ die, cream nr it yoke, black feathered hat; Miss W. Kent, navy blue cambric, red bat; Miss Mae Diarmid. pale blue linen, sailor bat: Miss V. Simpson, white niuslin sailor hat: M-)vs King, white embroidered lawn, white llowened hat; Miss B. Evans, white embroidered muslin, white tulle hat with pink ro r-s: Miss Wilson, tussore silk, burnt st ra v hat; Mrs E. Carthew, blaek skirt. loiu white serge coat, white hat wreathed in blue and pink hyacinths; Mrs Mannering, smart crash coat and skirt, brow’n hat with violets; Miss 1). Bedford, pink muslin, Panama hat; Mrs Simpson, black voile; Mrs Poynter (Wellington), Nack voile embroidered with a small white Hower, blaek hat : Miss Standish, green, cambric, pink muslin hat ; Mrs W. Bayley, white linen costume, piped with blue, blaek hat.

NANCY LEE.