PRESENTED AT COURT.

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PRESENTED AT COURT.

Tho report of a "royal drawing-room is usually dull Teading for colonials, who lsnow little or nothing of tho people mentioned, and care as littlo to read about their gorgeous clothes. But at the last of theso drawingrooms there were somo very interesting figures. For instance, tho latest Amorican peoress made. her appearance there,., the Countess of Granard, wifo of tho Master of tho Horso, had tho supremo honour of being presented in private audience beforo their Majesties, entered tho Throne Room by tho Mistress of the Robes, wore white satin brocaded with velvet leaves and brussoLs lace, a, hand, of diamonds surmounting tho deoollotage; tho train lined with silver tissue; her coronet was bo sot that somo of tho stones swayed. Tho collar of diamonds was presented by tho American Ambassador, tho large emerald in front by her grandmother. Mrs. Georgo Cornwallis West (who will always be remembered as Lady Randolph Churchill), although bbe was in mourning, for tho, little son of tho Duko of Westminster, attended to present hor ■ daughtor-in-'aw, Mrs. Winston Churchill. She was exquisitely gowned'in black, trimmed with jet and diamond embroidery, tho front of tho bodico worked in diamonds; tho train of black net worked in silver. Mrs, Winston Churchill, tho wife of tho President of tho Board of Trade, woro white satin; with a long panel of silver brocade, liko somo Venetian dame of the Middle Ages; the train antiquo sdver brocade. _ Mrs. Rockefeller, tho wifo of one of the richest nien in the world, presented by Mmo. do Villa Uroutia, wore no jewels, but an exquisite dress of white satin, worked in silver; tho train airy tissue wonderfully wrought with silver.