The Trousseau of Beatrice.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 116, 22 August 1885, Page 6

The Trousseau of Beatrice.

Have you any curiosity about the sort of trousseau a princess has ? 1 have seen the sketches and materials of some of Princess Beatrice's trousseau frocks, which are being made by Redfern. One is a very pretty brown and blue shot-tweed, with silk tmatch. The skirt is of the latter and is aro ranged in wide perpendicular plaits. The bodice and tunic are of the tweed, the front of the bodice being trimmed with folds of the silk arranged fichu fashion. A pretty little jacket to go with this gown is made of thetweed, lined with peacock-coloured satin and trimmed with the shot-silk down the fronts, which are straight, though the back fits tightly to the figure. Another nice frock is of grenat blanket cloth, the long wide plaits on the skirt being separated by folds of Ottoman silk in the same colour. Thero is also a vest of the Ottoman, the bodice and scarf drapery being of the cloth. A jacket is made to accompany this frock, the material being the blanket cloth. It fastens from the left shoulder and is trimmed round all the outlines with fine sable. A gown of navy-blue cloth is cut out in scallops, which tall over a trimming of interlaced cardinal red braid. A similar but narrower trimming edges the tunic, which is quite short. The fronts of the bodice are scalloped over a vest of interlaced red braid, and the sleeves are finished at the cuffs to match The jacket corresponding with this is of navy cloth, edged with one row of cardinal braid. A revers turned back at the side of the chest, is lined with red silk, and a smaller revers, tamed back at the side of the basque, shows a similar lining. This is a very effective little arrangement, and one quite new to my experience. A cream-coloured cloth is made over a skirt of pale-blue veiling, being quite plain except for a narrow plaiting round the edge. The bodice of this fastens diagonally from the left shoulder by means of carved mother-of-pearl buttons. The vest and cuffs are pale-blue Another cream-coloured dress is of Cairo cloth with plaited skirt and soarf-like tunic made of cream-coloured satin. The bodice of this gown h plaited and worn with a belt, -"London Truth."

,' • The area of the German possessions in New Guinea is 67,000 square miles, while <the British' portion is 63,000 square miles, .; Rewi recently made an attempt to induce ,the Maori' King to retire on Te Kuiti. ,*' No," said the monarch, umy face is now j jrowards the -EurojVeahs j <I- oannot turn; found, and if I walk baokwards T might all into a hole."