HAWKE'S BAY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 138, 6 March 1919, Page 10

HAWKE'S BAY

Ono of the National Bank ,£1 notes which were ijtolen from am ail steamer on the journey (o Now Zealand, and the signatures on which are forgeries, was received .by a Dannevirke business man a few days iwo. On being paid in to his account at the banlc it was roturned marked "forgery."

Mr. B. B. :Creagh was. married to Miss Dorothy Absolum, third daughter'of Mr. and Mrs, A. Absolum, of Cambridge, at St. Augustine's Church. Napier, on Tuesday morning by tho Rev. F. B. Redgrave. There was a large attendance of the friends of the contracting parties. The bride ,was given arfay by her brother-in-law, Mr. H. T. Handle)', and Miss Dorothy .'Handiey, niece of the bride, aotcd- as 'bridesmaid.

The Napier Licensing Committee ha"! decided not to enforce the erection of new firo escapes at cert-iin hotels pending the result of the referendum on (lie liquor question!

'A special meeting of the Hastings Borough Council tvas held on Monday evening for tho purpose of considering remits, to l)o forwarded to the Municipal Association Conference. Among the remits which it.was decided to forward were the following:—'That tho importation of films' and moving' pictures and their distribution to managers bo nationalised and controlled by*the Government. Thai it be made compulsory, for every voter lo exorcise his or her vote at elections. That the Municipal -Corporations Act be amended to provide for. an interval of two days between the dates of closing the rolls and their being open foi 1 public inspection to adnjit of. time for-the roll to 1)0 written up.

A quiet wedding was solemnised on March-i at the- residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Charteris, of Mnngatoro, the contracting parties being their second daughter, Annie, to Mr. G. T. Clarke, 1 of Sarringworth, England. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a frock of white crepe de chine, and carried a shower bouquet of white roses and asters. The' bridesmaid, Ulisß Mary'Charteris,.sister of the bride, wore a white silk frock, with pale pink hat, and carried a bouquet of pink and white asters. Mr. ,T. V. Castles (cousin of the bride), recently returned from the front, carried out tho duties of b?st mail. The .bridegroom, also a returned soldier (having enlisted with tho Main Body), taw long service on Gallipoli and in Franco. The ceremony was conducted by the Rev. Mr. .-Grant.

At Hastings, Miss Elepetli Irene Innes, younger daughter of tho late John Innes, purveyor,- Invercargill, wa9 married to Dr.. Thomas Watenvorth-, dental surgeon. ymmirmt son of the late T. Waterworth, of- Napier. The bride, who wan liven away by her brother,. Mr. Gordon Tnne=, wore a travelling costume c-f miotic cloth, with vest of oisean blue and a hat of pedal straw, .loireau blue, lined with mastic, and trimmed with nendo ribbon and tinv mount. She was nttend«d p.i bridesmaid by her niece; Miss Nancy Paslev.