NEWS BY MAIL.
BRIDE REFCSKS TO SAY "I WILD” LONDON. Oct. 10.
A bride declined to say ”1 will” to tlie usual question in tho marriage service at her intended wedding in St. Luke’s Church, Derby, yesterday, and she and her fiance finally went away unmarried.
She and tlie hridgegrooni are fel-low-workers ill a local hosiery factory, and it is stated that she relented of her promise to marry him as soon as the banns had been proclaimed. She was persuaded to allow tlie proceedings to go on, and on tlie eve of the wedding her simples were once more overcome through her friends’ influence.
When the astonished clergyman jailed to obtain her acquiescence to the question he suggested that she should sit down while a second ceremony took place—that of Imr brother, who had arranged to he married at the same time. Tin's she did. hut meantime the disappointed bridegroom took up his hat and left tlie church. Several of tlie couple's tellov-work-ers at the factory were in the congregation. KI.XKMA CHURCHES. I.OXDOX, Oct. 10. With tin' arrival of October the Sunday evening kinelua services which proved so popular last winter are reopening on a general scale. The success of this movement I-. being watched with a good deal oi interest by clergy and ministers, who are intrigued by the question of why the kiueina. services are crowded while so many of the churches and chapels are half empty. D is a common experience al these services that they are crowded nut. and that hundreds have to lie turned away. AY i 11 1 their hymns, prayers, and sermon they have much in common with tin' ordinary Church services and it is half-suspected that, the contributions of the orchestra and the soloists may furnish the explanation of their power of attraction. One feature of Loudon tile which has not been overlooked in the organisation of the services is the popularity of that little domestic festival t lie Sunday suppiT. Tho .sit vices cud early so that no one may ho hamlered from joining the family circle at this meal.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1923, Page 1
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