PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, 1 March 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. Murray Jackson and Miss Jackson have left for a holiday motor tour of Taranaki.

Rotarians J. A. Cowie and G. W. Sellar leave to-day for Auckland to, represent the Masterton Club at the Dominion Rotary Conference.

On February 10, a quiet wedding was celebrated by the Bev. J. Davie, at the residence of the bride’s parents, Johnstone Street, when Eva, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Tankersley was married to Walter Philip Cooke, of Nelson.

Mr. D. H. Marshall, late of the Morrinsville branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has taken up duties as manager at Masterton in to Mr. W. D. Horne, who has been promoted an inspector with headquarters at Auckland.'

According to a London cablegram, the “Daily Express” understands that Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jteatty is about to retire from the position of First Sea Lord of the Admiralty. It is now probable that Admiral Roger Keyes is to succeed him.

Miss Ellen Terry the famous actress, celebrated her birthday on Saturday. Speaking of the occasion, she said (according to a London cablegram^: “Life is so wonderful and people are so kind that it is difficult to realise I am seventy-nine.” The name of Ellen Terry stands very high in the esteem of the English-speaking world, and as an actress she has had no peer in England. On December 26, 1867, she acted for the first time with the late Sir Henry Irving, being cast as Katherine to his Petrueio in Garrick’s version of “The Taming of the Shrew.” Her stage jubilee was celebrated in 1906, a popular subscription in England and America resulting in over £BOOO being raised on her behalf. Miss Terry, who has been three times married, made her last stage appearance as the nurse in “Romeo and Juliet,” in 1919, at a performance before King George V.

A nuptial mass was celebrated at St. Patrick’s Church on Thursday on the occasion of the marriage of Hugh Michael Devenny, second son of Mr. and Mrs. James Devenny, County Donegal, Ireland, and Elizabeth Barbara Collins, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Collins, of Lansdowne. The Righ Rev. Mons. McKenna officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked charming in a frock of navywhite crepe de chine, with fine silk lace skirt, and long ninon sleeves. She wore the customary veil and wreath and carried a shower bouquet of white carnations, roses and maiden-hair fern. Mr. James Devenny acted as best .man. The bridesmaid, Miss Ellen Collins, work a shell-pink crepe de chine frock and carried a bouquet of pink carnations and maiden-hair fern. After the ceremony, a reception was held at the residence of the bride’s parents, Opaki Road. The bridegroom’s present to the bridesmaid was a gold armlet. Later Mr. and Mrs. Devenny left by train for the north, the bride travelling in a Cambridge blue ensemble suit, with hat and shoes to match.