SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1436, 10 May 1912, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wedding at St. Mark's. A very pretty wedding took place on Wednesday afternoon at St. Marks Church, when Mr. Geo. S. Warwick, late of the South British Insurance Company s local office, and now of Dunedin, was married to Miss Beatrice Ferguson, httli daughter of Mr. William Ferguson, lulbirnic. The bride was attended by Hisses Letti© and Emily Ferguson and Miss Elsie Warwick, sister of the bridegroom, ami the bridegroom by Mr. L. W. Cozens as best mau and Mr. J. Ferguson and Mr. Bert Warwick as groomsmen. The bride, who was given away by her father, was gowned in white duchess satin trimmed with point lace, and the usual veil and orange blossom. The bridesmaids wore charming grey satin charmeuse dresses with overdresses of ninon, and grey velvet hats trimmed with ermine, and carried bouquets of autumn foliage and pink Mrs. Ferguson, mother of the bride, wore black crepe do chine and grey toque. Mrs. Warwick, the bridegroom s mother, was in black satin chnrmeuso with a cream fringed toque. The bridegroom presented to the brido a set 'of fox furs, and the bride's present to the bridegroom was a gold albert. After the ceremony a very enjoyable reception was held at the Hotel Windsor, when the guests were entertained by the bride's parents. The usual toasts were drunk with enthusiasm, and songs were sung by Mrs. Henderson and Mr. Holli*. Mr. and Mrs. Warwick left on the same night for a tour to the Kamner Springs, en route to their homo in Dunedin. A Fei!ding Wedding. At the Presbyterian Church, Feilding (writes the Feilding correspondent of TuEDosiistos), the marriage took place on Wednesday of Mr. E. C Wallis, son of Mr. Wallis, of Cambridge, to Miss Ethel Weigh tman, youngest daughter of Mr. Joseph Weightman, of Awnhun Road, Feilding. The parents of both brido and bridegroom were- among tlio first settlers of the Feildinsr district, having landed there in 1871. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of cream satin trimmed with silk insertion and tucked net. Her nieces, the Misses Eva and 'Essie Woijjhtman. were the bridesmaids, and Mr. Arthur M'Elroy was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Walks will live at Cambridge. Feilding NofM. Miss Moss (Wellington) is the guest of Mrs. A. H. Atkinson. Miss Ballinger is staying with Miss Havbittle. Miss Harding (Wellington) is on a visit to Mrs. L. Gorton. Mrs. Wheeler and Miss Wheeler ore spending a few weeks in Auckland and Koroma. , , . , ~ Miss Hawke has been staying at 31rs. Prior's. The Bridge Club held their opening afternoon on Wednesday, at Mrs. A. 11. Atkinson's. Among the players were :- Mesdamos Gillespie, llorroeks, Ralliday, Roberts, Carr, M'AHmn. Hall, Glasgow, Clayton, and Misses Spain i 2). Mrs. Atkinson and Miss h. AtKinson are at present in Wellington. Ladv Islington and the Hon. Joan Dick-son-Povnder arc expected to arrive, m Wellington at the end of the month irom Auckland, and will stay hero till aker the King's Birthday, when tuey leave tor "Hi"hden," near Paimerston, tho residence of Mrs. Walter Johnston. A small dance is being given at Government House, Auckland, this evenin' by his Excellency the Governor and Lady Islington. Mrs. Alfred Prichard, of Austin Street, returned from Sydney by the Warrnnoo on Wednesday. Miss Curio, who has been visiting Mrs. Sydncv Jenkinson, Eoseneath, leit for the south'last evening. Nurse Bryant, who has been on the staff of the Waipukuraii District Hospital for about four years, leaves this week for her homo in the Wellington district, and then proceeds to England by tho s.s. Corinthic, which leaves Wellington ,on the 16th. Miss Dorothy Wndrty intends leaving for Blenheim to-daj. Miss Moss (Auckland) is staying with Miss Macaudrew, on the Terrace. Mrs. Algar Williams is visiting Mrs. Studiiolnio, in Tailiape. Mrs Woods, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Hodgkins, in Masterton, arrived in Wellington yesterday, and intends returning to Blenheim to-day. Mrs. Hodgkins accompanied her to Wellington.

English papers of April G announced tho forthcoming marriage, on April J, ol tho liev. William Eice, Hector ot bympson, Bucks, England, to Lady Sydney Ji. o"ilvie-Grant, second daughter ot tho Into tenth Lord Seafield and the Dowager Lady Seafield. The ceremony was to tafco place in St. George's, Hanover Square.

Mrs. M. B. Tait and Mis 3 Ivy Tan have arrived in Wellington from Auckland, and leave for their home at Featnerston on Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. M. M'Callum, of Eomticra, Auckland, leave Wellington by the Oonnthic on May 16 for England.

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'I'lie management of the ■ Kelbnrno Tea Kiosk has been taken over by (no Misses Plm.ii.ier (late of Broadway.*,. Chrischurch, and Kirkcaldio and lincton), who are prepared to ofier to llio public he best and only the best. Morning Tea, Lunch, Afternoon Tea and hnppcr. Special arrangements ( lor private parties and receptions,—Advi.

Weddings-Shower Bouquets for brides and bridesmaids. Only tho choicest of Flowers used. . Specially packed and sent to any part of the Dominion Missi Jlnr. ray, 85 Willis Street (Florist to hi* Licsikney Lord Islington).

Miss Amy Castle,. A writer in an Australian paper says that the live vears' contract of -Mis-' Amy Castles with "the Imperial Opera House Direction at Vienna, will give her rank us an artist of distinction. The only other Australian soprano similarly attached to that famous opera was Mine. Frances Saville, who terminated her Covent Garden appearances in 18! i;, and thou remained iu Vienna until her retirement in IWS. Mine. Lalla Miranda, who has sung so often at Covent Gar. dens, and in Holland, France, and Italy, has rarely visited either Germany or Austria. The engagements of the Sydney soprano, Mile. Akla have been at Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, at Brussels, and at the Paris Opera Comique.