WEDDING BELLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 50, 13 December 1900, Page 19

WEDDING BELLS.

M ACK AY— DARBY . On Wednesday, November 21 (writes our Auckland correspondent) the marriage of Mr. Robert Mackay and Miss Margaret Darby was solemnised in the chapel of the Bishop's Palace at Ponsonby, The Right Rev. Dr. Lenihan, assisted by the Rev. Father Darby, brother of the bride, and the Very Rev. Dr. Egan, 0.5.8., performed the ceremony. His Lordship celebrated the Nuptial Maas at which the newly- wedded couple received Holy Communion. The bride wu piven away by her father, Mr. Patrick Darby, one of our oldest and deservedly respected Catholic citizens, and attended by her sister, Mi.sa Gertrude Darby. Mr. Edward Darby, of Wellington, officiated as best man, and the Rev. Father Patterson performed appropriate music on the organ. After the ceremony the wedding party adjourned to the re-idence of the bride's parents, where the wedding breakfast was partaken of. The guests comprised his Lordship the Bishop, the Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly, the Very Rev. Dr. Egan, 0 5.8., and the Rev. Fathers Darby, Gillan, 0 Hara, O'Gallagher, O'Carroll, Corcoran, Patterson, and Purton, 0.5.8., and the immediate relatives of the bride and bridegroom. The bride looked charming in a Finart travelling costume of striped silk poplin. She carried a lovely bouquet and wore a gold c.«bk' bangle and a ruby brooch, the gifts of the bridegroom. The presents were numerous and beautiful.