KUMARA FANCY DRESS BALL.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 July 1901, Page 4

KUMARA FANCY DRESS BALL.

(OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

The long looked for event that has served as a theme for my notes on several occasions, and that had brightened with hope and expectation the dreary round of our young lives has come, and like an atherial vision vanished’ Yes: the Fire Brigade Fancy Dress Ball, on which so much worry of the 11 1 wander what I will wear ” class, such an amount of the artistic effort to realise the ideal of beauty was lavished is now numbered among those things that were end are not. The expectations of its most ardent votaries have been fully realised. In point of attendance, as a social event, financially and indeed in all that goes to make the sum of success, last night’s ball must without doubt be accorded a premier place. Phe inventine genius that conceived and the deft hands that shaped the grotesque costumes rendering the Fire Brigade procession a living pageant inimitable in its way, should soon pass into oblivion. The public showed that the efforts of the brigade to cater for their amusement had been appreciated by turning out in hundreds to view the procession, and after to pack to overflowing the peoples’ gallery. The procession was but a foretaste of better things. When dancing commenced the gallery was a closely wedged mass of eager onlookers, fiumbers clinging to the rafters in order to catch a glimpse of the lloor, soon to bo a living mass of glowing colours.

Ferns, flowers, flags, pictures, shrubs etc., in endless- profusion and arranged in the most effective way that the eye of beauty could suggest, ravished (he eye, ind soothed the restless spirit. Even shrubs of which I have an intimate knowledge of life-long duration, and yet never known to bloom, when' brought into contact with the atmosphere and surroundings of the scene, were perforce enticed to put on something in keeping with their environments and to behold they were lit up with a profusion of variagated blossoms. To whom all this effect is duo I know not, but they must have in a marked degree the instinct of the artist. The sombre evening dress of the gentlemen and the sober khaki of the troopers lent a touch of softness to a brilliancy that might otherwise have been intoxicating. The music of Mr B. Bremond (violin), Miss M. Galbraith (piano), and Mr J. Flanagan (cornet), was unapproachable and materially added to the pleasure of the dancers.

Mr E. Mulvihill from his elevated stand, shouted in stentorian tones the orders for the evening. They fell on too willing ears, already soothed into submission by the ravishing strains of piano, violin and cornet.

Mr T. Green had the catering iu charge and right royally did he do his pare in rendering the evening all that it was.

A word of praise must not be withheld from the members of tho Catholic Band for their services in connection with the procession. The following are the cos umes ; —J. H. Brown, Waiter ; G. Sherwood, Dunedin Fire Brigade ; E. Spiers, Cricket ; Miss Ziegler, Lady Guy ; Miss Adamson, Evehing dress; Mrs F. Smith, Captain Fire Brigade ; Miss O’Hara, Evening dress ; Miss L. Pasco, Summer Queen ; Miss L.'Burger, Summer Queen; Miss C. Monigath, Blue Silk evening dress; E. Lemon, K.P.8.; Miss Gage, Poppy ; Miss Gilbert, Evening Dress; Miss P. Naibb Heberlcy, Night; Miss Maloney, Evening Dress; Miss E. Stuart, Nurse; Mr W. Taylor, Duke of York; Miss Kbeli, Night; Miss M. Steel, Footballer ; Mr a.nd Mrs Jones, Mayor and Mayoress evering dress; Lieutenant Hasledon, Just as lam ; Miss Martin, Sweet Seventeen; Fitch, A Noted Character; Miss Reid, Evening Dress; Miss M. Mellroy, Evening Dress ; Mr J. Gibson, Trooper ; Miss Gibson, Evening Dress ; Mrs Stubbs, Bed Cross Nurse; Miss Moretti, Evening Dress ; Miss P. Maloney, Mother’s Darling ;S.H. G. Watson, South African Millionaire; Mr J. Gilbert, Dredging; Miss L. Adamson, Ivy; Ouida Fancourt, Empress Marie Louise; Miss J. Moore, Autumn ; Mr E. Mulvihill. Dunedin Fireman, Miss Mulvihill Evening Dress; Miss M. Graham, Sweet Seventeen; Mrs N. Rathwelly, Folly ; Corporal Wylde, Ganner Head, Gunner H. Brown, Trooper J. Cunningham, Trooper Dixon, Trooper Bell, Mr J. Valentine, K.Y.F.B. There is one question loft to settle and that usually the most difficult. Who is belle ? everyone was asking. “ Fools rush in where angels fear to tread ” is an old saying and though I feel that it is beset with dangers, and I may run the risk of displeasing many I have determined to sot tho stamp of my own infalibility on the decision of that momentuous query, I now beg to submit that in my opinion that honour belongs to Miss F. Naihi Heberlcy, as “ Night.’’

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