NEW PLYMOUTH

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8345, 4 February 1913, Page 5

NEW PLYMOUTH

January 30. Dr and Mrs Hassell (Wellington) are staying at the Mount Egmont Hostel, Dr and Mrs Rogers (Hamilton) spent last week at the Mountain Hostel and returned to Hamilton on Tuesday. Mrs Ivon Standish, who has just returned from England, and her little boy, are the guests of Mrs Standish, “Witiora.” Miss Rossio Wordsworth (Auckland) is also staying- with Mrs Standish. The Taranaki Bowling Association is holding a carnival this week, and about 120 visiting bowlers are staying in New Plymouth. Mr and Mrs E. Cock and Mr Lionel Cock returned to New Plymouth on Tuesday evening after a most enjoyable motoring tour in the South Island. The Rev. J. Wilkinson (Epsom, Auckland) is on a short visit to Now Plymouth. Dr and Mrs Beattie (Auckland) are staying at the Mountain Hostel for a week. Miss Tidy has returned from a visit to her sister, Mrs Butler (Wellington). Mrs Anderson (Stratford) is spending a fortnight with her sister, Mrs Haslam, prior to taking np her residence in Auckland. Mrs Prank Brown (Inglewood) and her family, who have been camping on the beach at Moturoa for the last six weeks, return, to Inglewood to-morrow. The marriage of Miss E. V. Dennis, youngest daughter of Mr T. Dennis, of Sydney, and Mr R. D. T. Hoskin, third eon of Mr J. Hoskin, New Plymouth, was solemnised at St. Mary’s Church, on Wednesday morning last, the Rev. A. H. Colvile officiating. The bride -was attired in a pretty cream silk voile dress trimmed with lace insertions, and wore a white ‘hat with plumes. She was attended by Miss Olive Hoskin (sister of tho bridegroom), who wore a champagne coloured silk voile with lace trimmings, black and white hat. Mr W. Hoskin, cousin of the bridegroom, was best man. The bride -was given away by Mr L. Keith, and after the ceremony the party adjourned to the residence of the latter, where a reception was held. The young couple left by the 1.40 train for Wanganui on their honeymoon, the bride travelling in a smart saxe blue costume, with hat to match. A quiet hut pretty wedding was solemnised at St. Mary’s Church on Monday afternoon, when Miss Maye Ashdown, daughter of Mrs Ashdown, Hendon, London, was married to Dr Blackley, New Plymouth, late of March Hill, Dumfries, Scotland. Tho Rev. A. H. Colvile officiated. The bride, who was given away by Dr Walker, wore a dainty dress of white crepe de chine draped with real lace, and with silver trimmings; she wore the usual veil and orange blossoms, and carried a beautiful bouquet of white roses, cactus dahlias, .and maidenhair ferns. Miss Catherine Walker and Miss Mary Robertson, the little daughters of Dr and Mrs Walker and Mr and Mrs D’Arcy Robertson respectively, were the bridesmaids, and wore pretty frocks of white embroidered muslin, and tuscan hats wreathed with white roses; they also carried bouquets of white flowers, and wore silver head necklaces, the gift of the bridegroom. Mr Sam Blackley was best man, and Masters George Walker and Mac. Robertson were pages. Mrs Walker wore a handsome black silk dress trimmed with lace and touches of heliotrope, black hat with lancer plumes, and carried a bouquet of heliotrope flowers; Mrs D’Arcy Robertson wore cream lustre with blue silk facings, black hat trimmed with lace and white plumes. The whole wedding party also wore buttonholes of Scotch heather. A reception was held at “Dunure," the residence of Dr and Mrs Walker, and subsequently Dr and Mrs Blackley left by motor car for the South, and sail at the end of the week on the Mamari for a trip, extending over about twelve months, to the Old Country. Dr Blackley will act as ship s surgeon on the voyage. The bride travelled in a pretty gray eolienno dress trimmed with satin, gray hat with lancer plume. The tvoddiug wiu; quietly celebrated at Holy Trinity Church, Te Henur, on Wednesday afternoon, of Miss Ethel Potts, second daughter of Mrs Potts, of New Plymouth, to Mr John Scott, of Awakmo eldest son of Mr and Mrs A. Scott, of Dunedin. The bride, who was given away by her brother. Mr Charles Potts, of Stratford, wore a dainty white silk dress trimmed with embroidered net and satin, the customary veil and orange blossoms and carried a bouquet of white roses and mandevilea and fems. Her bridesmaids were her sisters. Misses Kathleen and Jean Potts, and they wore white book muslin with insertions and bands of white satin; they wore black hats trimmed with pink and heliotrope reffpectively, and carried touciuots To i Clem miMn - Awakmo! acted as best man. The Rev. J Wilkinson, of Auckland, was the officiating clergyman After a reception at the re f, den ™ ° f hndes mother, Mr and Mrs Scott left by motor for the South, ea route for Dunedin, where the honeymoon is to be spent, the bride travelling in a navy blue costume, black hat draped with cream lace. The bridegroom's present to the bnde was a turquoise and pearl brooch, end to the bridesmaids wristlet watches.