Yesterday's Flower Show.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 405, 14 January 1909, Page 3

Yesterday's Flower Show.

,; In • spite fact. that so many pcoplo are still ; out.'of town, there was .-a'very- good attendance at tlie .-flower show yesterday afternoon. Tho Rink does not make such an ' attractive : setting ; for'. tho rows. of'beautiful flower 3 as .does.;the Town Hall,. and -i.the other disadvantage,- was that there was no afternoon / -tea/: though: it-- .is:>■ thirsty work looking at. flowers in .a hall covered with sawdust, but, despite show was a great sucoess and much appreciated by tho visitors. Mrs:. Tuckey, who opened the show, was presented by Dr. Izard on behalf! of -the;-society with a .beautiful."bou- ; quet of crimson gloxinias and cream' roses and maidenhair. She wore a liandsome froek of;. black'.', embroidered silk,) with- .'silk. cloak'; and' bonnet 'trimmed'.with ,violets , arid.ifastened with mauvo velvet strings. - Airs. Chatfield' wore a' frock of .checked heliotrope ;silk, : : arid . brown .hat trimmed I with'. roses; Mrs . ivori Haast, silver :.grey /silk 'frock,;! 'with "silver: trimming arid'-:black' plumed - hat; Mrs. Joseph, very handsome irock of ; liand-painted chiffon; Miss Joseph,: painted chiffon frock and. hat' with huge pink' plume; Mrs'. Walter Nathan, ' pale-: grey frock, and', floral. toque; Mrs. Clias. Pearce, white frock and pale green hat; Mrs. 0; Izard, blue frock and hat to match; *Mrs. Samuel; blue frock' and black picture hat jiMrs. Cross, (Christchurch), Ibla'ck . silk-frock,, the Bodice covered • with rows of.-black soutache,- braid, white blouse and black plumed hai; Miss O'Connor,- white muslin: frock' ■ and floral toque; 'Mrs. , Tring--hamv,smart striped, costume, black hat ; Mrs. : T. G. Macarthy, cream clot.h costume, ■ with. fine ;-pal£-;blue embroidery] jfloral; hat,; Mrs.. Hales, ■ brown.' coat and;., skirt,' black : hat . with -rcses; Miss Seed, blue > linen, frock, black, hat with roses; Mrs. '■ Shand, : cream cloth ;coatV'arid• skirt;, blue :hat 'with wreath :,. of flowers'; Miss Halse, reseda' green shantung 'silK. Among others present. were 'Mrs." Newman; Mrs. O'Connor, Mrs. John: BidwilL the Misses vMarchant, Mrs. Thost' Ward, . Mrs.-. Porisonby, Mrs; Fulton, ,Mrs. Joseph J osoph, Miss Berry, and Mrs. Gibbs.: Weddings. : At St. Mark's Church yesterday afternoon 'Miss -Aiitliei Harriett Tasker, : thir4 , daughter of the lato Mr. John Tasker, was married to Mr. Henry William Hawkins, of New Plymouth, tho Rov. A. M.- Johnson> "M.A.j offi*. ciating.; ■ The ■ bride, who was given , away by her eldest brother, Mr. - J. M. Talker,' wore a . pretty .semi r Enipire t frock of white I Loiiisine silk, ."trimmed. with heavilyrcm- | broidored ; net,arid : bridal wreath, .and She carried a,shower bouquet!of white, sweet peas-and roses. She was..attendcd._.by/two bridesmaidsj* Miss Clara. Hawkins, arid MissKate: Tasker,-her'' sister. Mr. T. Nesbit:was best' man,' and Mr. Henry Burgess, groomsman. .The.bridMmaids'.'wore, frdcks: of.white embroidered silk;muslin, and large white .picture' hats. - tririimed '■with cerise ;roses j; and velvet, a colour that was exactly , matched .in; .the-bouquets carried;. of :CCTise < sweet; peas. Mrs.:Hawkins, mother of the b'ride : groom, '.wore .a ■ black silk gown / and black •bonnet, .and Mrs. Tasker,'•mother _;.. ofthe bride, wore a frock of brown mfessalino satin,'shades of brmvri;'; ! old' "gold, "arid ■'hat'to'taiatihVi''- ( tion: was. Mi.-b^'lStra;';Tasker W;f^nflf6rd;s ; /Hall, Brooklyn, .where the'tables were: decor-' .ated:,with7scarlet,;aiid whitt'^ppiesv:'' ieveriing held -in: ■the same hall. ;.'

v ■S' weeding "6finterest'to •in-the:' Tar'ariaki Street,: 'Methbdistt-and^St. 1 John's Presbyterian \Churchos was, celebrated on Tuesday afternoon, in St. John's Church "by the .Iter. .'Dr. Gibb,- when .Mr.: H. -, P. Mourant, oldest son of Mr. J. E. Mourant, of this city,:',was.. married to Miss .Mabel' Seager; ; youngest: . daughter :of Mr'*- Edward Soager,' also of/ Wellington. The brido wore: a 'froekofwhite crepe .'do Chino, very siniply made,' tho bodice'draped with some beautiful lace., .She.'wore, a. bridal-wreath andveil/, ahr*; carried a shower bouquet. Sho. had two bridesmaids, Miss !Gibb, who' wore. a frock,of oroam Indian muslin with blue Leghorn hat, tnmmed :with, violets and tulle, and ..Miss, Riohardsoti, in pale blue voile .with 1 pale blue ■ : and ,violet hat;They-both, carried bouquetSj of: delicately-shaded sweet peas. Miss Nash: presided 'at the .organ.., The' best jman was.Mr. G. A. Keall, and Sir. P. J. Mourant acted as groomsman. After the wadding between forty arid, fifty "guests were entertained /by the bride's parents at a reception in their homo. Mr. .and Mrs. •H. P. received many congratulatory': telegrams, including .those, from.: the , officers of the Taranaki Street : Methodist. Church,' and- from St.; John's Sunday School, of'which bodies they had'been . respectively energetic workers. :-'V •. -V '

;Mrs. John Bidwill,- from Featherston, is at present 'the'guest of Mrs, Marchant. ; ,: : \ Mr. and Mrs. John Duncan returned from the West Coast on Monday. i'v.vAb; ■ "'' Miss Elsie Simpson . and ' Miss, Effie Staf-' ford' havo returned from ■ Heretaunga. : 1 • Mrs.' and' Miss Hamilton''are going;,dps; to ; Auckland on Friday.' -'. V Mr. and Mrs. voii Haast are' leaving': in ;a, few days for "where: the ''Senate 1 "is ; to meet. ' ■ Miss Nora Natusch, of Belmont, iis spending: a few weeks with friends in' Hawke-s Bay. ■ ■■'.'■ A very pleasant little tea was given;yester r 'day-, afenoon-' by .' Mrs.,-Walter Nathan as a farewell for Mrs.' and-; Mis s: Joseph,'who 'are shortly leaving-for England. : ' At Knox Church, Masterton; on Tuesday, Mr. 'George Sidney Connett, of .the. staff., oi the' Mastertoir Eailway: Station',: was 1 married to : Miss Katherine Oldham,- of - Masterton.: The ccremony was performed, by the Rov; A. T. ■ Thompson. ..v. There is on . view at the Dresdon Piano Company's rooms a crayon portrait ■of Madame Ada Crossley,-cleverly enlarged from a postcard picture by Miss Bertha Hickaony a member of the Girls' Realm Guild. _•; -This picture was displayed in Paling's music shpp in Sydney during. Madame Crossley's -season in that city. 1 ' Miss R. Ritson, . of the head .office of ' th'e Labour Department, who has been promoted to the Hon. J. A.- Millar's staff,- was -pre : sented with a souvenir of her: connection with the Labour Department yesterday. .Mr. ,J. Lomas, Chief- Inspector Factories, made the' presentation, in the absence of the Secretary for Labour (Mr. E. Trcgear), . ' ■ It seems a"-cruel fate that sends- a-, bride Home in one boat while her husband travels right-across the world in another, but that is what'happens to women who marry'the officers of big ocoan-goers. Tho Arawa takes Home with her two brides, whose husbands follow by other ships, Mrs. Plummer, wife-of the second officer of the Rimutaka, and Mrs.' Tonge, wife of the chief officer, on the Opawa'.

It was a Sunday-schooL class, and the teacher, a woman, had asked' tlie children to look up verses in the Bible in which the word "love" occurred —as a groundwork,-of course for moral instruction. When "the tim 6 came to answer questions one small boy put up-his hand, and, leave given *;to quote his text, said: "Song of Solomon, chapter ii., verse s,"'Stay mo with flagons; comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love"'! \ fair singer, whose wonderful voice Makes thousands of people rejoice, . Pnys she owes her good health. And her voice and her wealth. To Laxo-Tonic,, the' Pills of her choice. ; ' LAXO-TONIC PILLS, lOid. and Is. 6d.r 1