IRVINE—BLANEY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 33, 13 August 1903, Page 15

IRVINE— BLANEY.

As briefly announced in our last issue the marriage of Captain M. Irvine, of Dublin, and formerly of the *'urness Steamship Company, to Miss Rose Blaney, the popular and gifted vocalist, and daughter of Captain Blaney, of South Dunedin, took place at St. Joseph's Cathedral on Wednesday morning of last week. It is safe to say that no similar event had attracted such a large congregation to the Cathedral since it was opened —in fact, not a third of the people who gathered in its precincts long before the ceremony took place were able to gain admission. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Father Murphy, Adm The bride, who was given away by her father, was attended by three bridesmaids— Misses Mary Drumm, Maud Liston, and Rose Mills. The bride wore a handsome duchess satin dress, with an overskirt of real lace and a court train of broche satin. The bridegroom's gifts to the bridesmaids wexe greenstone shamrock brooches. The groomsmen were Messrs. J. J. Connor, junr ,T. Hussey, and E. Newman. At the conclusion of the ceretnony Mr. Vallis, organist, played two wedding marches as the wedding party was leaving the Cathedral. The newly - wedded couple, accompanied by a number of their relatives and friends, then drove to the residence of the bride's parents at Anderson's Bay road, where the wedding breakfast was laid. The toast of the bride and bridegroom was proposed in very felicitous terms by Father Murphy. The wedding presents were numerous and costly, among these being a very handsome silver salver and tea and coffee service from his Lordship Bishop Verdon, a set of spoons and forks artistically set in greenstone, from St. Joseph's

?r,,wrn * f " * stantlal ehe <iue for the bride from the bridegroom's father. Mr. and Mrs. Irvine, who go to h^% JZr !! ii ° ney Y iOon tn P> were the recipients- of hearty congratulations from a large circles of friends