GARDEN PARTY AT AWARUA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 695, 21 December 1909, Page 4

GARDEN PARTY AT AWARUA.

TAREWELL TO LADY PLUNKET Hundreds of guests were pre-ent yesterday ' ifternoon at the garden patty given at Awarua ' by the Prim* Minister and Lady Ward, as a , farewell for her LscePency Lady Plunket, and 1 theso included several members of tho Cabinet mtb. th«ir wives, members of both houses of ' i tho Legishture ,, with their wives, prominent oßlciala, and leading citizens ■ , It was an exquisite afternoon, and though r to hot m town, it was exceedingly pleasant on tho lawn and under the trees at Awaiua, and ( the gue. ts 'strolled about the lawn or along tho terraced walk tho flowers, listening •f s to the music, and talking to their friends The ' lawn was well coveied,with people, and, seen <' from tho terrace, there seemed to be as many black coats and hats as bright or delicately coloured frocks', for Parliament had adjourned ) for a time, and n«uly all the members made their way to tho Prime Minister s residence A large marquee was trected at one end of the ' lawn, aud this was set with many tables, deT" , oot&M with {roUow coreopsis and foliage Tea ■f was wiere, and also atf many little i tables set a\ong tho terraced path, and on the i other side of tho lawn a band played all the 'afternoon. Soon after four o'clock their Ex- ' cellenciES the Governor and Lady Plunket 'i- arrived, accompanied by Captun Gathorno Hardy r Lady Ward recoivod in a hindsome pimcess frock of cream cloth, with sleoves and joke of , cream filet not covered with braiding in narrow \.\ oream silk braid, a mole coloured hat, with shaded pink roses, and grey foliage Miss 11 ,Ward wore a frock of cream ninon, made with a tunio skirt, the skirt and bodice trimmed r , with deep bands of filet laco insertion hcivily t • ■worked in silk, tho bodice finished with a cream laco yoke and narrow bands of electric 1 bluo. She wore a cream hat with bows of blue velvet and rose Her Kicollonoy Lady Plunkot ' * -woro a graceful gown of black chiffon trimmed with black laco insertion over white with deop pointed vc t of whito net, and large whito hat trimmed with mauvo roses Miss Hill, who j accompanied her, wore a braided frock of )• nut-brown rronch shantung, with yoke nna eloeves of cream uot, and brown aud green hat. Mrs. IYndlay wore a frock of ivory silk with tiny black spots, black lace coat, and I black hat, Mrs Buddo, grapo purplo nmon, T , mth. oriental embroideries m the same colour, . I ~and hat to match, finished with an ostrich ■ d plumo, Mrs 11 IL'Kenzie, princess frock of i» , srey silk with panels braided with black, and i- h i, a iblack hatj Mis Newman, striped black ** t i" crcpe-de-chino with littlo bolero worked in gold i jAthroad, straw hat with blue feathers, and gold > KgaltrnfJCtMis Wallis, light grey cheiikedf silk, black plumed hat and palo bluo boa, Mrs T '-! C. WiDiams, black silk goun. with bkek laco , "■; coot and black bonnet with white tips, Mrs C ' Jolinston, mole-col6ured uirtctoire costume, i () r braided, and grey hat with whito plumes, Mrs ~" Cooper, navy blue foulard, with cream loco • ,jy vest, and bluo hat trimmed with pink roses, <* Hiss Cooper, white embroidored muslin, and floral hat Miss Coatos, coat and skirt of amethyst 'f 1 braided, and,black plumed hat, Mrs { r A CrAwford, white chiffon with border of whito I ulk spotted with black, and edged with deep , ; white silk fringe, tho folded bodice draped ' with fringe, and a black hat finished the f costumo. Mrs Louis Blundell wore a grey cloth > tStripod costume, Mrs A Pearce, black ch;ffon ' irocK with Waek 1 insertion over whito silk, "'' L and a black hat, Miss Pearce, white muslin irock with white lace, and pale groen hat with Tosesj Mrs Corliss, wbito embroidered muslin j coat and skirt with black bat, Miss Itobin, black silk worked with green, and a pitfo'pink *■ hat, Miss Bauchop, whito mKsfin frock ■ with white late coat, and black and whito hat, Mrs Joseph, groy figured satin foulard cream net yoke, grey hat covered with groy feathers, Miss % Joiopli, pink moiro silk with touches of mole coloured silk, molo hat massed With pink plumes, Mis Firth, cerise ' frock with long black lace coat, and black plumed hat, Mrs. Walter Nathan, black frock i with Moral toquo, Mrs Hubert Nathan, white creno-de chino, with stolo panels of cream cm 1 broidored filot edged with jnngo, and black hat / ' with white lace, Mrs Tuckey, black frock ■with black silk coat and black bonnet, Mrs fcprott, black frock with black hat , - -Mrs Field, brown frock with Tmnds of black i, * silk, and black plumed hat, Mrs M'Villy, palo * pink silk, and black hat with plumes, Mrs T E Taylor, cream jrincoss robe with yoke and i 'sleeves of tucked not, the bodico finished with '■ bands of emerald gicen mono volvet, black hat f r vVith black and whita plumes, Mr? Tringham, 1 cream laco robe, and white hat with pink roses and black bilk, Mis Lauienson, black >coat , and skirt and black hat, Mis Clarke ,_ Johnstono, mole coloured satin and whito hat J , ■* with roses, Miss Laurenson, sky-bluo i shantung coat and skirt, black chip hat, Mrs 'i > Duncan, dark blue costumo with oiicntal cnii% and crtam not yoko, small black hat; m Mrs. Harold Johnston, white mutlin pimcess lobe, black hat with green foliage, and palo k jTTeen sCatf, Mrs \ Duncan, viout rose frock aad black hat with cream flow en,, Dr Lliza- , beth Gunn, black and white stuped coat and skirt, with black lint, Mrs Algar Williams, , niole-coloiiicd costumo with hat to match and palo tangerine plume and boa, Mrs Dyraock, J biscuit colouied cloth with silk embroidered lace coat, hat to match trimmed with daik red roses j Miss Scully, green linen coat and skirt braided with black, straw hat turned up at 5 ' one Bide with dnik red roses, Miss Luckia, black lustre coat and skirt with black hat, Mrs. Tulton, black fi'ock and toque with roses, * Miss D Bulkley, heliotrope frock, with white ,- , hat and hehotiope rObes, Mrs tzard, cream > i frock with touches of green, and shady straw f nat with roses, Mrs Tweed, palo bluo voile Tith fine whito stripe trimmed with white lace, nd pale blue coat, Mrs Head, princess robo f Venetian brown iharmouse trimmed with 'i , dental embroidery and hat with ambor roses, - liss Edwin, dark, blue foulard and black hat ined with pink, Mrs Grace, blnck silk fxock 1 With Jjlack bonnet, iliss Beanchamp, pals bluo , shantung empiro frock, black hat, Mrs beddon, black Bilk with, black toquo. Miss Scddon, black and white.. stuped ninon, and black ' plumed hat, Mrs Loughnan, mauve silk with ~ toqno of bamo ihado and plumes,' Mrs Dver, /tussoro coat and skirt. vtith black facings, and black hat, Mrs Cecil Joucs, violet satin cloth with cream yoko, black haf with roses, Mn, 11 (Myers, pink doth princess robe, and blue het, Mrs Morton, pale bluo cloth frock, Mrs. Tewslej, white ombroidored frock, coat of lace and embroidery, black hat with omorald green plumo9, Mrs Wallace palo green voile, with dark green velvet and black hat; Miss Halsc, paio green, with cream yoko and green hat, Miss Partridge, black crepo do chine, black and whito tonuo, Mrs Hwang, a palo bluo Bilk tunic, with dark silk skirt, , Mrs. Dcvine, nolet cloth costume, and black hat, Mrs Paulke Cohen, violet silk, with nolet toque; Mrs Chnstio,, whito muslin, i brown hat with green wings, Mrs T. V. Marfan", bluo costume, with cream laco vest, and black/ hat with largo plume 9, Miss Martin, white frock with blno hat, Mrs S Spragg, dark groy silk, cream laco yoko, grey hat with purplo flowers j Miss Richmond, jialo groy silk frock, black and white hat, jblack lace scarf, Miss H 'Miles, whito ombroidored frock, and black hat with roses, Mrs D Robertson, pea cock bluo silk, with touohos of gold on the bodice, and black hat; Mri Knox, black and white striped silk, with black hat, Miss Tan ' tourt. deep bluo silk, with cream yoko, and bluo hat with black osprey Mrs Kennedy Macdonold, vnolot chiffon taffetas, with small hat of the same shade; Mrs S Harcourl, deop biscuit-coloured charmeuse j-j princes robo, tho liothco of braided laco cross ing ovor b vest of tncktd not finished with pale bluo embroidery, cream straw hat trimmed with palo green, Mrs , Eankin Brown, canard blue shot silk, with black hot, Mrs Kane, white coat and skirt with black facings, black 'lit with blacky and__whito_ t Mrs

and straw hat lined with green and trimmed with rose , Mrs MacLwnn, grey crepo do chine, tho skirt caught with a sash ot grey satin, sleoves and vest of grey tulle over silvci nut, grey hat with gny flowers, Mrs I II 11 i'i<ih(Sf, palo pink pnneets irock, with black and whito hat, Mrs Prouse, whito embroidered linen coat and skjit, with brown hat, Mrs Davis, pale blue silk princess lobe piped mlh dtcpti blue, light hat tiimraed with white lilac, Jhsa Prouso, whito frock tiimmcd with band* of whiL, embroidered in delicate colours, black hat "with, roses Jffs, Hdgff, black not and lace over white, black hat, Airs J. MncKenzio, black and white striped co°tiuno, with black and white hat, Mrs Bcohau, green flock, and burnt straw hat trimmed with green, Mrs Nixon, black chif fon laftotus, and hit vueathed 'with varicoloured tweet peus., Hiss tiixon, sago green cluifo'i taffeta", whito boi, an 1 hat with hvdrangeas, Ill's Ivewmin, whito lingerie frock, and floral hat Mrs Chatheld, palo green Sicilian, with largo bhek plumed, hit, 'Mi's M Alncgrcgor, mauve linen coal and skirt, and mauvo hut, Mrs J \V Bhok, black silk, with black plumed hat, Miss Putnnm, (local delaine and black hit, Miss. B, Putnam, whito muslin, it Into hat, Dr Bennett, grey coit and skirt, and black hat, Mrs. G At Luke, dark blue Bilk, with hat to match, Mrs J P Luke, palo blue frock, with white boa, and pale bluo hit, Mrs bimpion, gicen costume, and groen toquo, Misa Simpson, brown silk, with brown hat, Sirs Boorc, grey coat and skirt, and blnck toqtio, jUts Morrison, mole coloured costume, and molp coloured hat, Mrs Uonigan, white cm brmdered frock, ivith black hat trimmed with cut jut ' ,