WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 320, 9 July 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") WEDDING BELLS. On Wednesday, Jimp 211, ;i very pre! and ])oj)iilar wedding of local inten was celebrated at the Church of Englai; Rahotu. it being the first wedding ye. solemnised in that church. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Addenbrooke. The service was fully choral, and Mrs. Groom presided at the organ. The contracting parties were Miss Mabel Alma Sole, youngest daughter of Mr. Charles Sole, ."f Oaoiiui, and Mr. John G. Stronge, youngest son of Mr. C. S. Stronge, of Opunake. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked charming in a trained gown of white satin, trimmed with silk all-over lace and deep belt of pleated satin. She also wore a handsome bridal veil and wreath of orange blossoms, and carried a shower bouquet of white roses and maidenhair ferns, made by Mr. Groom, of Rahotu. The bridesmaids were Misses Vivian Prosser and Isabel Grey, the former wearing a cream voile, trimmed with silk all-over lace and girdle, and a large black picture hat, and the latter wearing a white satin-striped voile, trimmed with tiny frills of white satin ribbon and a large white picture hat. Roth bridesmaids carried bouquets of choice white erysantliemums and maidenhair ferns . Mr. G. Sole was best man and Mr. P. Sole groomsman. —Times. MAGGIE PAPAKURA'S MARRIAGE

Eight years ago an Englishman touring New Zealand naturally look in- Rotorua as one of the sights, and there he met Maggie Papakura, the guide, whose popularity was then at its zenith. The Englishman (says the Star) was Mr. Staples Brown, and he was so much impressed by his charming guide that he quite lost his heart. The acquaintance was renewed when the Maori troupe went Home last year with Maggie in charge, and before the natives left for New Zealand again the engagement of Maggie to Mr. Staples Brown was announced. It was thought that the marriage would take place in Xew Zealand, but after a brief stay in the country of her birth Maggie went back to England, and, according to letters just received in Auckland, the marriage took place in London on the 14th of last month. It is more than likely that Mr. and Mrs. Staples Brown will come out to Xew Zealand and take up their residence here. AN AGED POLITICIAN'S ROMANCE. SIR WILLIAM LYNE'S SECOND MARRIAGE.

AN INTERESTING DENOUEMENT. Sydney, Juno 14. A flutter of interest will be created in political circles by the news that Sir William Lyne, after nine ' years of widow-hood, lias been secretly married. The cat has been let out of the bag through quite a romantic little incident during the week. Sir William for some time has been an inmate of Kirketon private hospital in Da-rlinghurt roa,d, Darlinghurst. During the long period that he was lying critically ill his bride, in preservation of the strict secrecy arranged upon, did not visit the hospital, although she was constantly inquiring about him over the telephone. It needed a great effort on the part of both parties to stand the strain, and in the end her desire to see her bed-ridden husband led her to take a step that meant disclosing her identity, at any rate, to a small circle. And it led to a rather peculiar denouement. Sir William has three daughters by his first wife, and they were at his bedside the other day, when a strange ladjy, accompanied hy a small child, made a personal request for an interview, The hospital fiuthjorities, not knowing her, refused to admit her.

The lady was greatly distressed, and finally asked !that the name ''Uady Lyne" should be sent in to Sir William. This was communicated to him in front of his daughters, who, it is said, were in the dark about the matter equdly with the public. However, Lady Lyne was admit 1 :d to her husband's bedside, and, her stepdaughters having retired, husband iml wife met each other again for the first time for many weeks. Although the fact of the .uarrirge having taken place was confirmed by Lady Lyne herself, when interviewed to-day, she bashfully refused to give any particulars of the time rr place of th'e ceremony. But it is belk'ved that it took place over a year ago, and the preservation of its secrecy for such a long period becomes the more len.arkable. It ha* been ascertained, ton, that th'e second Lady Lnye was for fcveral years a resident of' Neutral Bay and that she now resides in Co vlvs Bo; d, Mosman. It was a May and Decsinner uior- age, the bride being a young woman, whereas Sir William is now :u lus'O'Jt'i year.

A GILDED YOUTH'S ROMANCE TRAMP STEAMSHIP ELOPEMENT. PARENTS IN PURSUIT. New York, May 22. Mr. Jordan L. Mott, junr., son of Mr. Jordan h. Mott, a millionaire iron manufacturer, who is an intimate friend of the Duke of Connaught, eloped on Monday with an actress in the British steamship Indradeo, bound for China. Mr. Mott signed on as purser, and the actress as a stewardess, because the vessel is not licensed to carry passengers. Mr. and Mr. Mott, senr., and a private' detective are in hoping to intercept the couple at Gibraltar, which is the Indra<ii-o's first portjof call. The parent's sailed in the liner Kronprinz Wilhelm yesterday, and the detective sailed this morning in the Mauretania.

young Mr. Mott lias a world-wide reputation for unconvcntionality. He is married to the daughter of a college professor, with whom he eloped during his under-graduate days at Harvard. His wife| left him three years ago, because he developed a habit of shooting at imaginary burglars in their home, and since then they have lived apart. Several days ago he announced that he was tired of being a society man, and intended to go on a trip for him in company with Mr. Hector Fuller, whose reputation as a soldier of fortune extends from Japan to South Africa. It was believed that the voyage would quieten the young man's nerves. Instead of this Mr. Mott eloped, and Mr.: Fuller, in the role of a private detective, is now hurrying to Gibraltar to induce Mr. Mott to change from the Indradeo to a schooner, as originally planned.