AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 21, 23 November 1910, Page 66

AUCKLAND.

November 19. At the Junior Club. O’7 r 1 VERY smart party was given by y I the Junior Club on Wednesday, aT 16th. Club functions are always jolly, for there is no denying the fact that a party where there is a good sprinkling of mere man always goes well. When we emerged from the lift, we were charmingly received' by Mrs. W. Colbeck, wife of the president, and Mr. W. Carrick. We then passed on Ito the billiard-room, which looked very gay and festive. The noble proportions of the billiard table's gave ample scope for a mo«?t effective tea fable decoration of sweet peas in every shade of pink, in dainty silver vases, and lovely fronds of maiden hair fern, and trails of pink satin ribbon. Mrs. lAnnjßane’s clever lingers were responsible for the floral decorations. Opening off Ithe billiard-room there are cosy rooms for cards, reading and suchlike. One room wore a most seven* and businesslike appearance walled with lockers, containing goodness knows what—extra boots and collars, 1 fancy. Our hoftts •were most attentive, and saw that we all partook of the good things provided, and we nobly responded. Burke’s Band played charmingly, and was quite a feature of the afternoon’s enjoyment. Among the members of the Junior Club, who were present, were Mr. \V. Col beck, Mr. P. Lawrence, Mr. A. Reid, Mr. Sbarland, Mr. Roy To>wle. Mr. Vickerrnan, Mr. A. Denniston, Mr. Cooper, Dr. Drummond Ferguson, Mr. B. Myers, Mr. Hector Pierce, Mr. IT. Cotter, Air. Holdemess, Mr. Griffiths. Mr. G. Kent. Dr. Murray, Mr. Tom Lewis. Mr. St. J. Clark, Mr.' Wyatt, Mr. G. George, Air. E. Dargaville, Mr. B. Fra ter, Mr. de Pass. There ‘were some very pretty frocks worn, notably a lovely steel-grey of some silky texture, beautifully piped with the same material, and dainty touches of dull silver-powdered ninon and white; a large black hat, ■wreathed with small coloured flowers. This pretty toilette was worn by Mrs. W. Col beck; Lady Lockhart wore a white painted chiffon over silk, and a black hat; Mrs. Ferguson (England), a coat and skirt of cream foulard with golden •brown spots and pipings, a brown tagol fltraw hat with black feather; Mrs. C. V. Houghton wore a handsome toilette of dark amethyst charmeusp, veiled with

gold fishes, net and bands of lovely embroidery, a large white hat veiled with black net; Airs. Drummond Ferguson wore the daintiest little frock of palest grey figured ninon over white, which had bands of lovely silver and gold embroidery, a white hat massed with grey ribbon bows; Mrs. Hilda Williams wore a charming mole coloured toilette, beautifully cut, and a smart black hat with white upstanding feathers; Mrs. Hector Pieree was a very smart figure in a trailing frock of palest grey crepe de chine over white, and a modish black hat, with huge brown bows; Airs. P. Lawrence wore a pale blue crepe frock, with touches of black, and a smart black hat; Mrs. Jim Carpenter looked charming in a lovely black and white dress, and a cream hat with hinds of lovely real lace; Mrs. Harry Clark wore a smart little coat and skirt in a steel-grey coloured linen braided in a darker tone, and a pretty black hat with bunches of pink and blue feathers and black osprey; Mrs. Atkin Carriek wore a braided frock of grey cloth, and a pale mauve hat; IM ns. Ernest Bloomfield wore a frock of a pretty shade of pale mauve, ami a creaan hat with roses; Mrs. George Bloomfield wore a graceful mole crystaline frock, and a large black hat; Mrs. W. Coleman wore a lovely black toilette; Airs. Duthie wore white linen, and a pretty hat, massed with red poppies; Mrs. Leatham, black ninon over white silk, and a pretty hat; Mrs. Fraser, white embroidered lawn, cream hat with roses, and a pretty white scarf; Mrs. C. Buddle, nattier blue shantung and a cream hat with roses; Mrs. Afowbray, junr., looked pretty in cream shantung, and a flower-wreathed hat; Mrs. Copeland Savage looked sweet in grey charmeuse, and a pretty hat; Miss Ida Thompson looked nice in brown linen, and a large black hat; Aliss Ethel Martin wore a white linen eoat and skirt with coarse lace insertion with a touch of blue, and a becoming hat with shaded pink and blue roses; Aliss Jessie Reid wore a hail spot muslin inserted with lace, cream hat with black feathers and a pretty amethyst scarf; Aliss Alab. •Rice looked nice in a pretty nattier blue frock, and a black hat; Aliss Cameron wore a pretty fluffy white frock and hat; Aliss Jessie Frater was pretty in palest pink linen, and a black hat; Aliss Gillies, smart white doth braided eoat, and pretty hat with shaded flowers; the Misses Muir Douglas looked sweet in little white linen eoats and skirts, and black hats; Miss Dorothy Nathan wore a lovely little white frock, and a white rose-wreathed hat; Miss Dorothy Ware wore electlie blue coarse linen eoat and skirt, and a black hat: Miss AL Dargaville, white frock, large picture hat of black, with white plumes and brown feather boa: Miss Winnie Cotter, a dainty white muslin embroidered - with pale blue, and a pretty hat and blue feather boa ; Airs. E. Russell looked nice in a well-ent grey cloth frock, and a smart red hat; Miss A. Parr wore a 1 lack and white checked eoat and skirt, and a pretty black hat: Aliss Rosie Greig looked dainty in blue; Miss Alary Towle wore a pretty white frock, and a flower decked hat: Alias Maud Browning in electric blue linen coat and skirt; and Miss Lulu in vieux rose, and pretty black hats; Miss Ruth Buckland looked smart in cream, and a liat with black glace bows; Miss Bay Tole was an upto date fgure in palest pink and white; her sister wore vieux rose linen: Miss Alatv Foster looked pretty in a mulberry coloured frock and black hat ; Aliss Russell (Palmerston North), dainty white frock, and hat. Others present wire Alesdames Reid, Towle. Martin, poster. Edmunds. Tole. Dargaville (2). Shippartl. Rankin Reed. Miss Mavis Reed in white and vieux rose hat; Mrs. Arthur

Alyers, Miss Levi, Mrs. Louis Alyers, Mrs. Leo Myers, Misses Myra Reed, D. Nolan, L. Towle, P. Gorrie, Cooper, D. Denniston, N. Waller, N. Coutts; Miss Flossie Deder, who looked nice in a pretty blue frock with touches of black, and a black hat with pink roses; Miss Ethna Pierce; Aliss Gwen Beale looked charming in white linen, and a pale blue hat wreathed with pink roses; Misses Biss who both looked smart; Aliss Ruth Horrocks, and crowds of others. Garden Party. Mrs. Towle gave a most delightful garden party at her pretty home "Medanga” (Epsom. The day was a charming one, which added to the beauty of the garden, and the roses which are in full bloom, were very much admired, The Bavarian band played pretty selections, and the party was much enjoyed by those present. Airs. Towle wore a soft black dress, and a black hat; the Misses Towle wore white muslin, and picture hats. Among the guests were Mrs. and Aliss Buckland, Airs. Ernest Bloomfield, Airs. Barstow, Airs. Benjamin, Mrs. Chatfield, Mrs. Archie Clark, Mrs. Coleman, Airs. Cochrane, Airs. Hugh Campbell, Mrs. J. Campbell, Mrs. Carrick. Mrs. Dargaville and Miss Dargaville, Mrs. Duthie, Mrs. Douglas, Airs. Dudley, Airs. E. Horton and Mrs. H. Horton, Airs. George Bloomfield, Mrs. E. Alorton, Airs. C. Nathan, Mrs. J. Rankin Reed, Airs. J. Reed and Miss Jessie Reed, Mrs. Percy Williams, Mrs. Arthur Myers, Mts. T. C. Williams, Airs, and Miss Ware, Mesdames Lintott, H. Clark, Dunnett, G. Elliott, Airs, and Aliss Greig, Mrs. and Miss Cole, Mesdames Hesketli, Hull, Macfarlane, Savage, Reeve, Tole, ’ Purchase, Tubbs, Noakes, H. Thompson, Payton, the Misses Clark, Carr, Browning, Firth, Gorrie, King, Richmond, Waller, Thompson, Reid, Nathan, Walker, Pieree, Reed, Aliss Nathan, and many others. , . ■ , A Round of Parties. Between now and the 3rd December, when Miss Lulu Browning is to be married, there are quite a round of parties at which she is the guest of honour. Airs. Popeland Savage’s progressive games’ party for Aliss Browning was a very jolly one. At one table you had to pick marbles out of a bowl with pencils, and put them into a bottle; at another thread needles; another thread beads, and all sorts of nonsensical things, which created a lot of merriment. Bridge was also indulged in. The prize for the progressive games was won by Mrs. E. Horton and Air. Murray George. Airs. Savage wore a pretty pale blue frock; her sister Aliss Cooper, pink charmeuse with tunic of mauve ninon; Mrs. Browning, black with cream lace; Miss Lulu Browning and her sister wore dainty white froc-ks; Airs. E. Russell, blaek; Airs. E. Horton. Royal blue charmeuse veiled with ninon in the same shade; Airs. Duthie, a nattier blue Liberty frock : Aliss A. Carr, a lovely little white frock, hand embroidered; Aliss Jessie Reid wore a pretty white net over chiffon; Aliss Lorna Towle, pale pink; Aliss Aland Buckland looked nice in pale mauve; Aliss Ruth wore maize charmeuse with cream lace tunic; Miss E. Dyer wore pale grey; Aliss 1. Clark, ereaan net with touches of blue, veiled with the net; Aliss Winnie Cotter, white; Miss Una Buddle, a dainty pink frock; Aliss Pearl Gorrie, pale blue charmeuse; Miss Gwen Gorrie, cream lace. Fearful and Wonderful. I have had some most amusing letters from friends in Melbourne describing the Cup Week, and the fearful and wonderful frocks worn. Oaks and Steeplechase Days were great trials for those who had special frocks. Many defied the elements, and wore t-beir flimsiest finery, and provided great fun for the onlookers, watching their wild ai d futile efforts to gather their frocks up, and yet lie decent. There is little doubt that the frock of the day is not built for holding up, unless much is revealed—and stockings prove a most important put, and legs that one does not uspect in ordinary discreet weather. The Countess Dudley wore her favourite white—but such a white! It was a smart little linen fro.-k, pleated, with a cheeky little belt of black patent leather and white kid. The dress was short, and she was perfectly shod. A white hat and a snowy feather boa. gave a soft finish to the turn out. One lady who always dresses to set Flemirigton afire tied a cherry -ribbon in a huge bow round a grev frock waist, wi.li the wings of the bow pinned to the shoulders, and a peach-pink hat pulled on to

her head. Another lady wore a PaWey shawl, a real grandmotherly beauty, airt crimson, cornelians in her ears. Short foulard frocks were much favoured. The most "hobbled’’ of the "hobble’* frock was there in thousands, and it was with great joy we saw one of the most pronounced of these eome a most awful cropper, simply falling flat on her: face, her luck being in she fell on thei lawn, so no damage was done—except to her feelings, you might say? No; anyone who would dress like that has no feelings. ~; St. Aidan's Bazaar. The St. Aidan's Parish Hall wore al very festive appearance on Thursday. Inf front of the entrance a large marquee was erected, which looked very eool and! pretty. In this was the flower stall and produce, so artistically arranged that even the groups of cabbages looked well. Mrs. Whitney did a brisk trade in seedlings, all of her own raising. She was assisted by Airs. Duvall and the Misses! Chapman, Ross, and Cheeseman. When) one entered the hall the scene was verjj pretty. All the stalls were framed with a- white lattice, and each stall was represented by a different flower trailing over it. The effect was light and dainty. The stage—which is a fine roomy one —> was arranged as a tea-room, where one! could also get delicious strawberries an<l cream -and ice cream. The tea was int charge of Mesdames Buchanan, Alark, Cuthbertson. Strawfberries: Albsdamea E. Horton, E. Bloomfield, and E. O’Rorke, and a bevy of pretty girls, among whom were the Alisses Isoliel Clark, Al. Towle, Cooper, Ida and Nellie Thompson. Ice creams; Airs. Proude, Misses Nancy; Hanna, Newton, and Cullington. Thei following ladies were at different stalls;] Mesdames Keeble, Hall. Aladill, Hunt, Pond, Abbott, Walker, Bass, Winstone, Culling, Turnbull, Dalton, Desborough, Misses Macdonald, Crowther, Coombes, Herrold, Scott, Gregory, Brown, Warnock, .Smallfield, McCullagh, Browne, Clarke. There was a boys’ stall in charge of Masters Harry Turnbull, Roy. McCullagh, Victor Clark. ( " Ring Contest ” Afternoon. The Misses Ruby and May Rhodes gave a very pleasant "Ring Contest” afternoon to about 60 of their girl friends at "Ronaki,” Remuera, on Friday. The drawing-room was decorated with a profusion of delicate-tinted sweet peas and branches of cream roses, and the study had gorgeous red roses. The competition brought out the keenness of thought of the young people, which , resulted in Miss McLennan being the winner of the first prize and Aliss A. Max-i-inner the second prize. Airs. Rhodes wore a mauve grey gown with Oriental embroidery; Miss Rhodes, a pretty swallow blue frock with tablier ends eaught' at the hem with tassels; Aliss Afay Rhodes, cream eashmere and lace. Flower Show. The flower show held on Friday and Saturday was a huge success. As Air. Bagnall remarked, during his opening speech, the children’s exhibits were quite a feature of the show. There was a grand! display of flowers of almost every sort. A table of earnations, exhibited by Mi‘. H. Brett was simply glorious. Dr. Douglas Hamilton gained several prizes for his lovely roses. The table decorations were very pretty, the second prize tabid being eharming. In the children’s classesall the tables were pretty. Whoever judged the decorated baskets must indeed have had a task. There were dozens of them, and most of them pretty. There was the keenest; interest taken by the children, who simply swarmed everywhere. I think the committee made a serious mistake in nofi having tea. The hall was quite full of flowers, but it would have been quite a simple matter to have had a tent. I am sure a golden harvest would have been made. Among the people I noticed, were:—Air. and Airs. Bagnall, Dr, and! Airs. Douglas (Hamilton), Airs. Aldridge, Airs. Dignan, Airs. King, Mrs. Goldie, Air. and Mis Seegner. Mr. and Airs. Towle Airs. H. Weston (New Plymouth), Airs, and Aliss K. Nelson. Mrs. Oliphant, Airs. Edmiston, Airs. Gordon. Airs, and Aliss Friend, Aliss Hilda Williams, Aliss Ida Thompson, Airs. R. B. Lusk, Mrs. Webster (New Plymouth), Miss Seherff, Alias Webster, Aliss Binney, Mrs. Talbot Tubbs, Aliss Beresford. The Seaman's Mission. On Tuesday evening at St. Paul’s Parish Hall a concert was given in aid of the Seamen’s Mission. The first item was a pretty one aet comedy, written

& Mr, Claries Thorp, the author taking ♦ne of the four parts. Miss Manning fkad a part which suited her, and acted (Very brightly. Mrs. Reeve as the pretty Boquette was well cast, and Mr. W. Wells *oo3c the other port. The comedy fcvhk'h was called “Christinas Chimes,” Was very well received. “The final rehearsal” was amusing, Miss Ivy Manning l|>eing especially good, and the maidservant too, Miss Hazel Nairn. Musical items were given by Mrs. Cowan and (lie Misses M. Waddell and 'Essie Holland Mt. A. P. Cowie, the Seamen’s Missioner, gave us an amusing sketch of the history of the mission. Mr. Cowie has a great sense of humour, a rarer gift than commonly supposed. Mr. Cowie called ippon one of his seaman friends from the s.s. Arrow for a song, which was (promptly responded to, and the rest of the sailors present joined in the chorus, ’fliis item was quite the gem of the Evening. Mrs. M. Williams very prettily Bang “The Gleaner’s Slumber.” Madam Laura Daw sang twice. Other eontriibutions were: Mr. Pieree, Van Braket tyvho recited well, and Mr. Herapath. Students’ Recital. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boult's Students’ Recital, held in St. Andrew’s Hall, on Saturday night, was a imost interesting function. The hall was tilled, and the keenest interest was taken by everyone. The two items given by the Melmerely College singing class, were very good. “Tire Minstrel Boy,” sung by Master Rupert Grantly was very sweet, and much enjoyed. All , the children played with a remarkable clearness of touch, and with a lot of feeling. During the evening Mrs. Boult was presented by a tiny tot with a lovely basket of roses. Personal. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ross have returned to their home, “Bruntwood.” Mr. Ross, I am glad to say, is much better. Miss Milly Cotter, who for some time has been seriously ill, is almost well again, and is at present at Lake Takapuna. Mrs. Foster and her family have returned from Okoroire. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ross are at preBent visiting Okoroire. Miss Phyllis Boult leaves on December 21 for England, where she will remain for some time. t. Mrs. Roberts (Cambridge) is the guest of Mrs. Arthur Herrold, Remuera, and from there goes to pay Mrs. J. Mackay (Devonport) a visit. Dr. and Mrs. Douglas (Hamilton) paid a flying visit to Auckland, being exhibitors and prize-winners at the Rose Show. Miss Devore, of Parnell, Auckland, left for Gisborne, on a short visit. Mrs. A. C. H. Collins, who has been on a lengthened visit to Auckland, left on Sunday for her home in New Plymouth.

PHYLLIS BROUN.