PEER'S ROMANTIC MARRIAGE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2794, 12 June 1916, Page 2

PEER'S ROMANTIC MARRIAGE

WEDDED IN PAKISH CHURCH TO MINISTER'S DAUGHTEIi. • Elements of romance are associated with tho marriage of tho Earl of Westmorland and Miss Catherine Louise. Gcale, which took place at the Parish Church, Ilerhe Bay, recently. Lord Westmorland is a member of tho Church of England and the Countess is the (laughter of the late Rev. G. S. Geaie, who from 1880 to 1898 was a minister of Queen's Square Baptist Church, Brighton. 111 IS9B Mr. Geale went to llerno Bay, and was pastor of the Bnptist'Church there until his death ill 1907. It is, perhaps, a circumstance without precedent that the daughter of a Nonconformist minister should be married to a peer' in 'the Established Church iu tho town in which Her father had officiated.

The bridegroom is in his 57th year. As 13th Earl he succeeded his father ill 1891, and iu the following year married tho beautiful Lady Sybil Mary St. ClairKrslrine, daughter of the 4th Earl of llosslyn.. She died in 1910, and were two sons and two daughters of the marriage. Lord Burghersh, the heir to tho title, is ail officer in the Navy, and the younger son, the Hod. Mountjoy John Fane, borne in 1900, is a naval cadet. Lady Enid Victoria Fane, born in 1894, married in 1914 Captain the Hon. iitenry Cecil Vane, the heir to the Barony of Barnard. Tho younger daughter, Lady Gloria Sybil Fane, was born in 1902.

After tlie first Countess (if Westmorland's death, Miss Geale was engaged as governess for the youthful Lady Gloria. She is an accomplished lady, with an exoellent knowledge of languages. Lord Westmorland, who was married in his khaki uniform, has been Colonel.of the. 3rd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and he served in the South African War in 1902. The Westmorland title dates back to IG2I, and the family is related to some of the most distinguished houses in the kingdom. The present Karl is associated with the •Wellington and Howe families. The tenth Earl was Viceroy of Ireland towards the close of the eighteenth century, and a principal street in the Irish capital is named" after him. lord Westmorland's grandfather was a distinguished soldier and diplomatist, and his father fought iu the Crimea. At a meeting of the Victoria League, which was held in Aucklafel, it was stated that the bronzo casting for the memorial which it has been proposed to erect to the men who fought in the Maori War had arrived from Paris, and that certain details relating to the erection of the statue only remain to be completed. Alterations in the list of hostesses at the Soldiers' Club for this week have been made, and on Thursday evening Mrs. Sydney Brice and Mrs. Fordham will bo joint hostesses, whilo on Friday night the hostess will be Mrs. Chapman. Mrs. Edgar Holimvood (Mnstei'ton) is visiting Wellington. Sergeant Prettejohns, one of the Canterbury Mouiiteas with the Maiu Expediiionary Force, writing to his mother in Clu'istchnrch, expresses appreciation of the comforts that arc sent .by the New Zealand women to the lads 'at the iront. Ho Says: —"Wo get plenty of good food, and aro all in the pink of condition. I must .say a word riglif here, mother, about the ladies of New Zealand and all tlio different. branches of gift committees and the good.work they are doiiig, for I do not know what the boys would do without their smokes, parcels of handkerchiefs, milk,, jam, lnccs, socks,and other valuable things, . .including writing materials. Ido not know if it is because some of the boys got back, but the ladies seem to send just the right thing at the right, time." At the Hawke's Bay Ijducation Board's meeting 011 Thursday Mr. G. E. 'Roach drew attention to the fact that about 30 pupils at the Hastings District High School were compelled to sit on stools only seven inches square and without back rests. He pointed out that tho room was originally used as n laboratory, but, owing to the overcrowded state ot the school, the Mum was now used for four days a week, and the pupils concerned had to each put in two continuous -days there. The fact as stated was confirmed by Mr. Xoten, tho board's instructor, and the members decided to visit the school and make a report. "I heard Mr. Subburbs speaking most beautifully of his wife to another lady 011 the train just now. Rather unusuai in a man these days." "Not under the circumstances. That was a new cook he was escorting out." For sixty years Mr. W. Gibbons, 0; St. Mary Bourne, Andover, has been bellringer at tho parish church. To commemorate the occasion his ' belfry comrades have presented him with "a handsome clock. Stamford and Co., 12.3 a Cuba Street, liair workers and art milliners, are featuring the "boudoir cap fringe," composed ol naturally wavy human English hair, especially becoming anil adaptable to ! 'wear under the "boudoir cap," aB illustrated in the advertisement, or under nirse's cap, motor or travelling bonnets. The firm also stock all slrndea of liair, mid orders (oiuntry or city) can be completed 111 a few hours.