SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1255, 11 October 1911, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wedding at St. Paul's. , A very pretty wedding Was celebrated in St. Paul's .Pro-Cathedral yesterday, whoa Miss Jessie Margaret Reid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Reid, Qf Wellington, was married to Mr. Edwin Sallnontl, son of Dr. Salmond, of Dunedin. The church had been very prottily decorated with lycoporlium and arum lilies by the girl friends of tho bride. The ceremony was performed by tho Rev. Mr. Williams, the bride and bridegroom standing beneath a floral bell, and Miss Watson played the organ. Tho bride, who was given away by her father, wore a very handsome and simple gown of white duchesse satin, trimmea with Honiton laco and silver hand embroidery. A veil, fastened with little sprays of orange blossoms, was worn, and 6he carried a sheaf of lilies. The three elder bridesmaids, Miss Doris Chilman, Miss Margaret Knox, [ and Miss Dora Booth, wore very pretty frocks of soft Oriental satin, veiled with ivory ninon, in which were inserted panels of lace, finished with embroideries tinted with heliotrope, blue, and pink. The same kind of embroidery, with silver, was also on the bodices. Ivory crinolino hats, trimmed with quilted tulle and with high tulle aigrettes of the same three shades with (lowers under tho brim, were worn. Very charming was the small bridesmaid, Miss Jocelyn Knight, in ,white muslin. Tho bouquets carried by the bridesmaids were fastened with ribbon in the same pretty shades, and they wore tho gifts of tho bridegroom, necklets of blue onaiuel worked with heliotrope. Mr. Witheford attended the bridegroom as best man, and Mr. Hull and Mr. Spraggon were the groomsmen.

Aftor tho ceremony a reception was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Hall, where speeches were made and the usual toasts honoured. Mrs. Keid, the bride's mother, wore a gown of blue charmeuso, veiled with black striped ninon, and a blue hat with shaded bluo ilowers. Mrs. Hall was wearing a dress of biscuit-col-oured shantung, trimmed with corise, and a navy blue hat. -The bride travelled in a champagne-coloured costume, faced with wedgwood bluo and a largo hat wreathed with pink roses.

Airs. Josoph Allan and Miss Salmond, from Dunecfin, came up for the wedding, and there wore also present; The Hisses Booth (Nelson), lliss Mota Lethbridgo (Rangitikei), Miss M'Lennan, and Miss Dodson (New Plymouth). A small dance was held at Mrs. Hall's last evening. •D"aSbo'~ar'Govornment House.

... Last evening a danco was given at GovjaidisSfit House by ha Excellency the'Gororiior and Lady Islington. Invitations were received by tho following:— . Mr. and Mrs. Abbott.

Mr.' Ball, the Misses Brandon, Mr. Brandon, Colonel and Mrs. Burnett-Stew-art, Mrs. and Miss Boyle, Miss Buddo, Madame Boeufve, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Buller, Major and Mrs. Braithwaite, Mr. and Mrs. Barton. Mr. A. M'Cosh Clark, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Clifford, Dr., Mrs., and Miss Collins, Captain R. 0. Chesney, Miss Cooper, Colonel and Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Christie. Mr. and Mrs. Dalziell, Mr, and Mrs. Lan Duncan, Mv. and Mrs. A. Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. K. Duncan, Miss Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. Dvmock. Mr. and Mrs. Elgar. Mr. A. C. and Mr. G. Fell, Mr. Wilfrid Fiudlav, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. B. Fisher, Mrs. I' itzherbert, Miss Fitzgerald, Mr. and Mrs. Firth, Mrs. Fcrgusson. General and Mrs. Godlcy, Captain and Mrs. Gardner, Miss Gore and Mr. Gore. Mr., Miss, and Mr. G. Harcourt, Colonel Heard,, Major and Mrs. Hughes. Mr. Handysidc, Mrs. and Miss Hoskins, Major and Mrs. Hume. Dr. and Mr. K. Izard. Mr. R. 0. Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Johnston, Colonel Johnston. Mr. Kebbell. Mr. and Mrs. A. Myers, the Missos Miles. Mr. MacShane, tho Misses Mackenzie, Dr. and Mrs. Mason, Miss Millar, Sir G. and Lady M*Lean, Mrs. Louis Myers. Mr. Newman. Jlr. and Mrs. O'Borke. Miss Pearce. Mr. E. S. Pearce, Mr. E. ■W. Pearce, Mr. J. C. Peacock. Mr. Walter Reid, Jlr. ltawson, Mrs. Vernon Reed, Lieutenant Richmond. Miss Sommerville, the Misses Simpson. Captain and Mrs. Thornton, Dr. Tolhurst, Mr. and Mrs. 1,. 0. Tripp, Mr. and Mrs. Tripe, Mr. and Mrs. Tnrnbull, the Misses Tweed, Mr. T. L. H. Turner, Mr. Turrell. Sir Joseph and Ladv Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Algai' Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Wilford, Dr. and Mrs. Webster, Hon. H. Uigram, Miss C. Williams. ■ "Othello." , A great many people were present in the Sydney Street Schoolroom last evening to listen to the publio reading of Othello by tho Wellington Shakespeare Club. Absorbing as aro all Shakespeare's that dealt with last evening is one which throws a spell over the listener from the very beginning. Text-books innumerable have been written about Othello, discussing _ what Shakespeare meant and what he did not mean, splitting hairs and probably attributing meanings which would simply make Shakespeare, did he know, simply stare aghast. In any case, Shakespeare- is, like truth, . manysided, and, listening to the reading last eveping, people could tako him as thev wished.

Jllss S. Raple.r, who read the part of Desdemona, wore a frock of pink satin trimmed with silver net; Sirs. E S Baldwin (Emilia) was in blue satin with white lace tonic; Miss Reading (the herald) in palo blue veiled with liinon.