WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 6, 5 August 1908, Page 62

WELLINGTON.

Dear Bee, July 31. Already quite a number of people are en route to Auckland for the gaieties of Fleet Week, and I hear rumours of some lovely dresses which are being packed with a view to wearing them at the State Ball. Elsewhere I tell you of the party who intend to brave the excitements and adventures of the unfinished Main Trunk route. Most of the travellers, however, will go up by the West Coast, and prefer the risk of a bad sea voyage to being snowed up. Sayes’ Court has be<;q the scene of much hospitality since Mr. and Mrs. 11. D. Bell have been living there. Un Thursday there, was » A BIG A-FTHRNHON TEA,- K and many guests were entertained by Mrs. Bell and her daughters. The rooms

are many and spacious, so there was no overcrowding. The decorations were mainly daffodils, set in silver and china bowls, afid interspersed with violets. Two rooms , were used for tea and coffee, and a third for chocolate; while in the billiard room Melba and Terazzini could be heard on the gramaphone. Mrs. Bell received her guests in the drawing-room, wearing blue eolienne with a rucked bodice, draped with lace and net; Miss Enid Bell wore white voile with a net blouse having heavy applications of guipure lace; her younger sister was also in white with a blouse of chine ribbon and laee; Mrs. Harold Johnston, black chiffon taffetas, lace vest and blaek picture hat; Mrs. Hector Rolleston, pastel cloth tailor-made with yoke of laee; Mrs. A. Duncan, striped tweed tailormade and hat with wings; Mrs. O’Connor, black taffetas and lace; Mrs. G. Pharazyn, blue and green taffetas and a picture hat of blue with a long white plume; Lady Miller was in black crepe de chine and lace; Miss Johnston, black chiffon taffetas, lace yoke, and black hat with tips; Miss Elsie Joseph, brown and white striped taffetas with a lace yoke and long wrinkled sleeves of brown chiffon, brown picture hat; Mrs. Johnston, black chiffon taffetas with a yoke of ecru filet lace and a blaek hat; Mrs. Duncan, black chiffon taffetas and lace; Mrs. Edwin, black crepe de chine and long seal coat; Mrs. Brandon, dark green cloth and green hat. It is difficult to do justice to the success of THE LADIES’ NIGHT GIVEN BY THE SAVAGE CLUB. No end of trouble had been taken, and by the end of the programme the audience. was weak and limp with laughing and applauding. The members of the Club, clad in their best war-paint, made a most imposing entrance, Professor Easterfield being the chief savage. Mr. von Haast’s topical song on the subject of society correspondents was received with an ovation, and there was much laughter over his suggestion: “Why shouldn’t we have chronicles, so quaintly to record _ What was worn at every korero by members of our horde? I’m sure such information ,on the garb of every beau Wouix, be read by all the squaws at our savage korero!” Lady Ward wore black chiffon velours with a berthe of lace and embroideries of eut jet; Mrs. Easterfield, white brocade; Mrs. Fowlds, black lace and net over ivory silk; Mrs. Baume, pink crepe de chine and lace; Mrs. Pieken,. black taffetas and Honiton lace; Mrs. von Haast, pale grey satin with berthe of laee; Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, white taffetas with touches of gold; Dr. Agnes Bennett, white eolienne and lace; Miss Prouse, black crepe de chine and lace; Miss Beauchamp, ivory satin with lace frills; Miss C. Beauchamp, ecru lace and net over glace; Miss Simpson, pink eolienne; Miss Bendall, pale pink crystalline; Miss Wylie, eau de Nil crepe de chine; Mrs. Dykes, black net with a sheath skirt of overlapping black sequins; Mrs. Firth, mauve ehiffon taffetas with berthe of laee; Mrs. Elder, black taffetas, embroidered in jet; Miss Elder, white and pink taffetas; Mrs. Myers, rose-coloured chiffon glace with laee bretelles; Mrs. Fitchett, grey chiffon taffetas, relieved with chine silk; Miss Kember, vivid red savin with medallions of ecru guipure; Mrs. A. Ballance, black chiffon taffeta and jet; Miss Hardinge - Maltby, blue chiffon, veiled in tambour lace and net; Miss Putman, eau de Nil crepe de chine and lace; Miss Rubi Seddon, white mousseline de soie; Mrs. Newton, white chiffon taffetas and lace. Luncheon parties have sprung very much into favour lately, and several big affairs have been given at hotels. Mrs. J. Williams was hostess at one on Thursday, when the floral decorations were particularly good. Broad ribbons of orange, red, and green were stretched across the tables and tied in big flat bows at the corners, while the centre was done with rush baskets of vivid-hued' berries. It was a daring scheme of colour, and immensely effective.' Mrs. Williams wore wine-coloured ninon de soie, the yoke beiilg of ‘lrish crochet in a deep ecru shade, her toque was composed of : shaded dahlias in the same rich tones. , The guests included Mrs. Baume’ (’Auckland), in pale pink -cloth with a lace vest and a black picture hat; Mrs. Galloway (Dunedin), in a navy cloth, braid-

nd, and worn with • smart hat; Mrs. Seaton (Sydney), ivory cloth and a petunia-tinted hat with shaded purple flowers; Mrs. Major (Hawera), navy cloth and hat with wings; Mrs Turnbull (Dunedin), blaek chiffon taffetas and Irish lace; Miss McNeil, tweed tailormade and’ floral hat;' Mrs; Kennedy, black crepe de chine and lace; Mrs. Fitchett, grey chiffon glace and lace yoke; Mrs. Chaffey, blaek tailor-made, braided, and black picture hat; Mrs. Moss, dark blue cloth and blue hat with wings. There were many guests at the LUNCHEON PARTY given on Tuesday by Mrs. Louisson, who, with her daughter, has come up from Christchurch for the Session. The tables were deeorated in shades of mauve and purple, violets being the most .in evidence, interspersed with freesias and sprays of copper beech. Mrs. LouissOn wore mauve souple cloth with touches of velvet and yoke and sleeves of richly-embroidered net, her mauve hat was wreathed with flowers and lined with cerise chiffon; Miss Louisson was in mulberry taffetas with a yoke of delicate’ filet lace; Lady Ward wore greyblue eloth with a lace jabot, and a vieux rose toque with a pink plume; Mrs. Walter Nathan, tabac brown cloth with velvet revers, and a brown picture hat; Mrs. J. Joseph, black crepe de chine and lace, black hat with long white plume; Mrs. David Nathan, rose pink crepe ‘de chine with, wheat-ear embroidery- in gold bordering the lace yoke, white picture hat wreathed with roses; Mrs. M. Myers, brown taffetas with yoke of ecru filet net, brown hat witli many coloured choux; Mrs. Baume; pink cloth and large black hat; Mrs.-Knox Gilmer, amethyst cloth witli lace vest, and black picture hat;'. Miss Rutherford (Canterbury), white 31oth tailor-made and white hat with wings; Mrs. R. Brown, grey tailor-made and green hat; Mrs, Ross, grey tweed and toque with roses. MUSIC AND PROGRESSIVE BRIDGE were the principal amusements at a party- given on Tuesday- by- Miss Kember. The hostess wore white crystalline, bordered with gold tissue, and softened with lace; her mother was in black taffetas, embroidered in jet; Miss Eileen Ward, pastel ninon with epaulettes of lace; Mrs. McLean, chiffon taffetas with lace sleeves and vest and touches of embroidery; Miss Fulton, eau de Nil taffetas with lace, vest toyiclyed with gold; Miss Simpson, pastel messaline-and lace;. Miss Jones,'orchid mauve messaline with lace berthe. Among the guests were several officers of H.M.s. Encounter. At Mrs.’ Tweed’s tea on Friday a number of guests came on from a similar function at Mrs. 1 Bell’s. Mrs. Tweed wore black velvet, and ivory lace; Miss Tweed was in white crystalline. THE ANNUAL BALL OF THE R.N.Z. ARTILLERY (WELLINGTON GARRISON) came off with much success in the Town Hall on Friday- night. Military- weapons were interspersed with the gay red and white of the Jockey Glub Ball (which was held the, night before), and the variety of smarU uniforms added to the ensemble. Among those present, were Colonel and Mrs, Webb, the latter wearing grey brocade with touches of black; Miss Webb, poppy red,<silk ; Miss Robin, pale green taffeta, veiled in ivory lace and sequins; Mrs. llitnie, black crepe de chine; Miss Butts, tambour laee with pale blue choux; Mrs. Gyhner. flowered taffetas and lace; Mrs. F. M. B. Fisher, rose pink - brocade; Miss Beauchamp, floral silk and lace: Mrs. Trask, black crepe de eliine With berthe of lace, Mrs. Newman-- • .. ■ ■ A VERY PLEASANT LITttE TEA on Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. J. G. Wilson and her daughter (Rangitikei), who are spending a few days in town. The tea table -was . a irtftss, ,of lovely, longstemmed violets, in low silver vases. Mrs Newman wore' a' graceful gown of cream cloth, the bogice draped with handsome lace;’Mrs. Wiwon, blaek silk grenadine oyer -cream chjffon taffetas with touches of pink on the bodice; Miss Wilson, Smart frock’ of pale pink silk edlienne, bodice, of cream lace with strappings of pink silk, pale blue hat with pink and blue floWers ; ■ Mrs-. Buchanan, cream serge,-hat with, green bows; Mrs. J. Studholine,- blue cloth with black velvet bands and buttons, large white hat : ; Mrs. Heaton Rhodes (Christchurch)., .i' • . i.l ■■ ■' V, I ■

navy blue skirt and Eton coat with Oriental embroideries, cream lace vest; Mn. Moorhouse, black tailor-made; Mrs. H. Crawford, prune tailor-made, white furs, black hat with white tips; Mn, A." Crawford, smart gown of nattier blue doth With white strappings and vest; Miss B. Fitzgerald, blue voile with bretelles of lace and silk; Miss Menteath, cornflower blue with folded bodice, lace vest and sleeves ; Miss Dunean, grey Vsietian cloth, hat, and furs; Mrs. Duncan, black braided gown, black and white bat; Mrs. O’Connor, black with sealskin coat, yiolet bonnet; Miss Barron, cream serge coat and skirt; Mrs. Head, dark grey tailor-made, smart toque; Mrs. C. Johnston, black gown, hemmed with velvet, sealskin eoat, small toque. Others present were Mesdames A. Dunean, Inson, McTavisn, Fitzgerald, Barron, Menzies, Misses Coates, Holmes and McTavish. The Ministerial residence in Tinakoriroad was the scene of A BIG “AT HOME’’ on Thursday, when Mrs. Hall-Jones entertained a number of her friends. Pink camellias decked the tea table, and trails of green sinilax were placed about the centre piece. Mrs. Hall-Jones wore black chiffon taffetas with a vest of lace and net; Miss Hall-Jones was in pale blue ninon with net sleeves; Mrs. Christie, pale pink taffetas and lace; Lady Ward wore blue souple cloth with lace jabot, and a picture hat; Lady Steward was in black chiffon taffetas and lace; Mrs. Donne, white and black taffetas and blaek picture hat; Mrs. Tringham, pale pink eloth with delicate embroideries and pink picture hat with feathers; Mrs. Rutherford, white cloth tailor-made; Miss Rutherford, white eolienne and lace; Mrs. Macarthy, nattier blue tailormade and hat with pink roses; Miss Gill, navy cloth and blaek hat; Mrs. Hamer, eiel blue cloth, lace jabot, and a pale blue picture hat; Mrs. Seddon, black eolienne with medallions of black guipure; Miss Seddon, black tailor-made and blaek hat ; Miss Cooper, Wedgwood blue, tailor-made and hat with roses; Mrs. Dyer, grey’ tweed, lace blouse, and black hat. PERSONAL NOTES. Next Wednesday is the date fixed for the marriage of Miss Avis Edwin and Colonel D’Arcy Chaytor. The bridesmaids are to be Misses Macintosh, Morrah, Otterson and Chaytor. Colonel and Mrs. Gorton (Bulls) are in town to meet their son (Mr. Denis Gorton); who has been away five years in Argentina and England. Among energetic people who are making the overland journey to Auckland for Fleet Week- are Sir Joseph and Lady Ward and their daughter, the Hon. Dr. Findlay and Mrs. Findlay, the Hon. G. Fowlds and Mrs. Fowlds, Mrs.'and Miss Louisson (Christchurch),'Mr. and'Mrs; Izard, Mr. and Mrs. Baume, Mrs. and Miss Sinclair (Dunedin), Miss Rubi Seddon. Others going North are Mrs. Heaton Rhodes, Mrs. Mason and Colonel D’Arcy Chaytor. Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Riddiford are expected back from Japan next Wednesday.