NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1921, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

£il;,t).Jtl,ooo B.\BV HEIRESS. PARIS, June ÜB. Three weeks alter {jiving birth to a healthy baby, who is said to lie the heiress to £IO,OOO,DUO from her grandlather in the United States, Mrs Jjleilaris, the 20-year-old wife of an Englishman, Mr A. C. N. Beilaris, id la maternity home on the outskirts ol Paris on Monday. Her husband, uho states that he is an ox-officer of the Royal Air Force, lues been unable to trace her. “Mrs Beilaris cried most of the time that she was here,” the matron of the homo told me. “Her husband came so vend times to see her. 1 understood that Mr Beilaris had eloped with his bride by aeroplane from a ball in Paris. “The expense of keeping Mrs Beilaris here was paid by her mother. When she went away on Monday she ( had no luggage, and: she said she had J been told by telephone to go and meet her husband.” i Mrs Bellaris’s father, who is a rnillionairo plantation owner in Texas, is stated to have made a will some time ago bequeathing his fortune to the unborn baby. It is suggested that Mrs Beilaris may have returned to America. NEW PARIS FLOCKS. PARIS, June 3'). 1 Brilliant sunshine. Beautiful women. Gorgeous frocks. That i.as s impression of Longehnmps this afternoon at the most popular race meeting of the season. Under the trees in the paddock w an animated scene; crowds of men and beautifully -gowned women, graceful mannequins in striking toilettes, a ■ here and there the crude colours of the jockeys’ attire its they {Kissed by on a possible winner. There is a quaintly old-fashioned look about many of the new dresses. To begin with, practically all the skirts were tinkle length, with flowing panels which neatly swept the ground. They were full, too, and many of them h> wire lumps or modified crinolines, w' i' ■ others were gracefully draped. The bodices were reminiscent in many eases of the year 1880, and others were longwaisted and completed by loose hoops encircling the hips. With these, hats which resembled poke bonnets seemed quite in keeping. The majority of the frocks were composed of crepe lie Marocain or crepe Remain, ornamented by silks, heads, or lace, trimmed with monkey fur. Black, white, mauve, and yellow were the shades most in evidence, and slmwi capes, as well its capes made with exquisite Indian shawls, were all the vogue. f arc