PALMERSTON NORTH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 1 December 1906, Page 45

PALMERSTON NORTH.

Dear Bee, November 23. Winter seems to have returned, it is so bleak and cold. Last Saturday there was only a moderate attendance at the tennis courts. Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Pickett dispensed the afternoon tea. Mrs. Adams w T as wearing a grey skirt, cream Mouse and grey hat; Mrs. Pickett, blue skirt, white embroidered linen blouse, a scarlet American- sailor with scarlet tulle and flowers; Mrs. Gibbons, grey sac coat and skirt, blaek chiffon hat with black tips; Mrs. Harden, blue skirt, long grey coat, navy mushroom hat with two shades of blue tulle; Mrs. Broad, wine-coloured tweed coat and skirt, velvet cuffs and collar of same shade, pale blue crinoline hat with white flowers; Mrs. Colbs, pale L-lne linen with small velvet spot, burnt straw hat with pink and crimson roses; Mrs. Bennett, light grey eoat and skirt, pink crinoline hat; Mrs. A. Thompson, grey coat and skirt, burnt straw American sailor, with pink and cream ribbon and pink flowers; Miss Waldegrave, navy blue skirt, cream and red striped blouse, burnt straw hat with narrow velvet bands and blue quills; Miss M. Waldegrave, navy blue skirt, white embroidered muslin blouse, white laee hat with pale pink flowers; Miss Fitzherbert, small grey-blue linen eheck, navy blue hat; Miss Lord, blue skirt, white linen, coat and blouse, white linen hat with navy blue band; Miss Gwen Bel), black skirt, pale blue blouse, white hat with pale blue band.; Miss Wilson, brown skirt, eream blouse, Panama hat; Miss H. Bejl, Miss Belle Robinson-, Miss Armstrong, Miss Reed, Messrs. Adams, Harden, Wither, Barrand, Coles, Connel, Swainson, McLean, Hepd, (Spencer, Smith. IL Waldegrave, Fulton, Burr, Reedy, Collins, M. Waldegravc, Moodie, Hogg. Pickett, Thompson,. Dr. Putnam, and others. 'film different tennis matches are progressing rapidly, the committee insisting that each round must be finished Within a week, otherwise the competi-

tor falling to play his or her match is scratched. To-morrow a team of four ladies and six men come from Feilding to play a match with the local club. THE WILLOUGHBY AND WARD LONDON COMEDY CO. played a short season at the Opera House this week, "The Man from Mexico” and "The Talk of the Town” attracting large audiences. On the first night Mdlle. Dolores and party were present. Mdlle. Dolores wore a plain black evening dress with a pale blue velvet bow in her hair. Others L noticed were Mrs Davis, wearing a nil green crepe de ehine with silver sequined berthe, pink roses in hair, long pale blue silk coat; Mrs Snow, eream voile skirt, cream spotted net and lace blouse, wide yellow silk belt, cluster of roses of same shade; Miss Show, blaek crepe de chine, frills of narrow white Valenciennes lace on corsage, eream embroidered coat; Mrs Louisson, pale pink evening dress, Paris laee and pink roses on bodice; Mrs Park, blaek silk, black sequin berthe and cluster of crimson flowers; Miss Park, black skirt, cream silk blouse; Mrs Bennett, pale blue satin and white chiffon; Mrs Gibbons, black striped net over blaek glace, frills edged with blaek satin ribbon, blaek sequin berthe; Mrs Colbeck, pink and heliotrope floral muslin, eream brocade coat; Mi’s Bagnall, cream satin, white lace berthe; Mrs Stowe, blaek crepe de chine, fichu of cream spotted net; Miss Keeling, blaek skirt, cream and blue floral muslin blouse with white Valenciennes laee; Mrs Pickett white satin.- and laee; Mrs Johnston, black striped gauze over silk, transparent elbow sleeves of blaek pin spotted net, pale blue silk chou; Miss Johnston, white muslin and laee, pale blue silk belt; Mrs J. P. Innes, emerald green velvet with some beautiful laee, spray of deep eream roses, eream coat; Mi» Milton, black silk, eream lace berthe and cluster of crimson roses, cream accordion-pleated cloak with swansdown; Mrs Warburton, black silk, silver sequined berthe; Miss Warburton, pale blue silk and white lace, long eream coat; Mrs W. Keeling, white lace over white satin; Mrs D. O. Shute, pale blue silk, white laee berthe, with spray of blue flowers; Miss Drew, blaek velvet skirt, pale pink silk blouse with cream lace yoke; Mrs A. Guy, black skirt, eream and pale blue blouse with lace; Mrs Ward, black evening dress with blaek chiffon frills; Mrs Holmes, eream voile skirt, cream spotted blouse over pink and 1 blue floral silk, pale grey coat; Mrs Harold Abraham pale pink erepe de chine, white lace berthe; Mrs Alys Riddiford, white muslin and lace; Mrs Hankins, blaek evening dress, eream coat; Miss Hankins, pink silk, white lace berthe, and cluster of pink roses, pink eape; Miss Fitzherbert, a dainty white mbslin and lace frock made with crossover bodice, large cluster of pink roses; Mrs F. S-. Mcßae, blaek skirt, pale blue silk blouse, cream coat; Miss Fraser, blaek silk, white ehiffon on bodice; Miss Dalrymple, white voile and laee, crimson roses; Mrs S. Hump, white satin and laee, pale blue silk chou; Mrs J. Nash, black velvet, yoke of Paris tinted spotted net; Mrs Lissaman, black silk voile skirt, white silk blouse with frills of white accordion pleated- chiffon, pale grey accordion-pleated cape; Miss Wyatt, white embroidered muslin, blue silk belt and blue flowers, pale blue accordion-pleated tape with white swans down; Mrs W. H. Smith, black brocade skirt, eream satin and laee blouse; Miss Belle Smith, eream satin and lace, crimson flowers; Mrs Freeth. cream voile skirt, eream and pink floral muslin with cream laee insertion; Mrs Fitzherbert, blaek evening dress, grey velvet coat; Mrs C. K. Waldegrave, blaek brocade, blaek sequin berthe ami cluster of pink and crimson roses; Miss Margaret W’aldegrave, cream silk and lace, eream flowers with green foliage, long pale blue eoat with white swausilown; Miss Dorothy Waldegrave, while muslin and laee, pale blue silk belt; Mrs Randolph, blaek erepe de ehine with frills of blaek accordion pleated ehiffon on corsage and sleeves, cream coat; Miss Randolph, blue silk, Paris laee and cluster of pink roses on corsage; Miss O’Brien, white muslin and lace, pale blue silk belt; Miss —. O’Brien, blaek velvet, rose-coloured sash and bow in hair; Mrs Rutherford, blaek evening dress, long eream coat; Miss Pegden, cream, voile, eream ehiffon, and tench of. tunyioine uelvet on. eorsage, pink coat; Miss Knight in cream silk and lace, eream rose in hair, pink coat;

Miss —. Knight iu cream- with pink roses on bodice and in hair, blue coat; Mr and. Mrs Council; Miss Armstrong, Miss Bond, the Misses Mowlem, Mr and Mrs 8. Luxford, Miss Nannestad, Miss Akers, Messrs Harman, Abraham, Grunt, Bagnall (2), Fitzherbert, Waldegrave (2), Freeth, Innes. Milton, Drew, Warburton, Guy, Hume, Holmes, Hankins, Meßae, Sim, Gibbons, Bennett, Louisson, CollMW’k, Davis, O’Brien, Nash, Drs. Stowe and Martin.

Ou the second night Mr. and Mrs. Loughnam Mrs. Kinear, Mr. and Mrs. Alellsop, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Abraham, Mr. and ADs. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons, Mrs. J. Pascal, Alisa McLennan, Mrs. and Miss Smith, the Aliases Park, Mr. and Airs. Warburton, Aliss Warburton, Mr. and Miss Keeling, Miss Phyllis Keeling, Air. and Sirs. Freeth, Dr. and Airs. O’Brien, Airs. Shaw, Mrs. Berkeley and others were present. On Tuesday' evening Airs. Eliot Warburton, gave a small supper party at her residence, Main-street, for Miss Gillnn Seaife, a member of the London Comedy Company. Aliss Seaife had oecn an old school friend of Miss Warburton when at Home some years ago. Mr. C. Warburton Gamble, of the same company, •was also a guest. Those present were Air. and Mrs. Warburton, Aliss Warburton, Miss Seaife, Mr. Gamble, Miss Margaret Waldegrave, Air. Norman Waldegrave, Aliss Armstrong, Miss Fitzherbert and Air. Victor Fitzherbert. On Saturday last Airs, Inder, Alexan-dra-street, gave A SUCCESSFUL TENNIS PARTY. A dainty afternoon tea was served in the garden. Airs. Inder received her guests in a black voile skirt and becoming pale blue silk blouse. Miss Inder was in cream with eream laee trimming. Mrs. Greig, black skirt, wine-eoloured blouse, wine-eoloured hat with green trimming; Aliss Baker (New Plymouth), black skirt, eream silk and laee blouse, blue hat; Aliss Park, navy blue coat and skirt, blue French sailor with green and red flowers; Airs. Piireell, in blue with blue mushroom hat; Airs. Rennell, grey coat and skirt, white cloth collar, blue hat with cornflowers; Airs. Vernon, brown braided costume, black and white hat; Mrs. Foote, in cream with cream hat; Aliss Hamilton (Sydney), bine voile and cream laee insertion, cream hat; Aliss Tatton, pretty pink dress, pink hat with pink flowers, Messrs. Inder, Vernon-Reid, Purcell, Tatton (2), Bayes. Blenkhorn, and Dr. Greig.

VIOLET.