LATE CITY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 542, 20 December 1928, Page 17

LATE CITY

SOCIETY STIR

Bride Springs Surprise C&OSE NEW MAN P-A —-By Telegraph — Copyright) {Australian anti hi.Z. Press Association) Heed- 9.40 a.m. LOXDOX, Wednesday. There was a flutter among society people assembled at the Savoy Church because of the fact that a New Zealand bride. Miss Huia Sargood, instead of marrying her announced fiance, Captain Valle rope, of the Royal Artillery. who took out the licence a fortnight ago, married to-day a New Zealander, Lieutenant lan Lawrence Maekillop, of the Royal Engineers. The bride told an interviewer that the other one was “off.” She said: “I am marrying Lieutenant Mackillop.” He here interposed that the other announcement was incorrect. It is understood that Captain Pope told the church authorities as late as Saturday that everything was in order, but on Monday Miss Sargood . told them she was marrying Lieutenant Mackillop. She w-as informed that the old licence, in the circumstances, was invalid, so she paid £2 14s for a shortnotice special licence. She is a grand daughter of the late Senator Sir Frederick T. Sargood, and a daughter of Mr. P. R. Sargood, of Dunedin. Her sister is Mrs. Leslie “OTHER ONE IS OFF" “The other one is off." * This is still the only explanation of Ihe great ly-prominenced Sargood fomance. Other novel features were the half-hour-too-earlv arrival of the guests owing to a wrong announce-' ment and the bride’s defiance of superstition. She wore a bright green dress and Coat, with a hat to match. She brought a big Airedale, which was tied up outside. It whined and broke loose, and was recaptured after a chase. The bride explains that it was entirely a mistake. The bride’s mother from New Zealand began to explain, '•Yes, there was to be a different groom," when her son-in-law interrupted, “That was before. It was some time ago.” Lieutenant MacKillop, noticing the photographers, remarked anxiously, “I hope they won’t put the picture fiver the wrong name, or the other fcan.” EXAMPLE SET The “Daily Express,” in an editorial, Says M.ss Sargood set an example which doubtless many wives wish they had followed. Women rarely allow themselves the benefit of second thoughts in these matters. Once they are engaged there is a vast manysided and wellnigh irresistible social pressure, which propels them to marriage. "It is an absurd and cruel convention, Better to make an eleventhhour change and face bother and gossip than pigheadediy and resignedly to embark on an experiment in which doubts have already begun to arise.”