LADY VOGEL'S FANCY DRESS BALL.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 108, 4 August 1876, Page 6

LADY VOGEL'S FANCY DRESS BALL.

The Hon. Sir Julius and Lady Yogel gave (says the « New Zealand Times' of Friday) a fancy dress ball at the Ministerial residence last night, which was a most brilliant and successful affair. Invitations to the number of over 250 had been issued, and there were nearly thafc number present. The. conditions of the ball confined the materials of the ladies' dresses to calico or other inexpensive stuff, but the gentleman were allowed to be limitless in this respect.

As fancy dress depends largely on " cut and colour,',' die Indies were able to quite hold --Their own with the sterner sex. Tho costumes, as a rule, were tasteful in the extreme, and in manycases in which a particular character was assumed, the Lidy or gentleman impersonating it continued throughout the evening to keep up its characteristics by appropriate action.

We take from the list of guests published in the ' New Zealand Times' the names of the ladies and gentlemen known in Otago, and characters assumed : — Barton, Mr G-. E., as Sir Fretful Plagiary ; Barton, Mr l lliott, as a Blue-tailed Fly ; Bell. Messrs H. D. and E. D., as Chevalier D'Artagnan and a Courtier ; Bunny, Mr IT. and Mrs, as a Militia Officer and Old Mother Hubbard; Brett, Colonel, as a Major-General in the Ottoman Army ; Clayton, Mr W. H., junr., Master, Mrs, Miss, and Misses Kit tie and Emily, a3 Prinoe de Conti, a Jester, a Spanish Lady, a Soubrette, Titania, ancl Princess Marie Stuart. Fitzherbert, Mr H. S., and Mrs, as a Lieutenant Indian Army and a Lady of the 18th Century; Fox, Mr E., as Garibaldian Officer; Fraser, Captain, as a Bonnet Laird ; Howorbh, Mr, Mrs, and Miss, as a University Professor, Night, and Croquet; Haugh ton, Mr C, as Peter the Hermit ; Jackson, Mr Alfred and Mrs IL, as Courtier of Ja**nes 111. and a Shepherdess ; Larnach, Mr, Mr D., and Master, as an Australian Stockman, The Perfect Cure, and a Perfect Cure; M'Lean, Mr George, Miss, and Mr Douglas, as Hussar Captain, Archery, and a Highlander; Pearce, Captain, and Mrs, as Artillery Officer and a Pois-> soniere ; Phipps, Lord Henry, as Captain of the Maintop ; Reynolds, Hon. W. IL, as a Spanish Moor; Turton, Miss, ns Submarine Cable ; Teschemaker, Mr, as a Beef Eater ; Yogel, Sir Julius, Lady, and Miss, Court Dress, Folly, and Citoyenne; Whitmore, Colonel, as Military Secretary ; Waterhouse, Mr, as King of Hearts.