WEDDING BELLS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 37, 10 September 1903, Page 15

WEDDING BELLS

SHEEDY— O'MALLEY

A large party travelled from Greymouth to Otira Gorge on August 25 (writes a correspondent) to be present at the marriage of Mr. Edmund Sheedy, son of Mr. D. Sheedy, Greymouth, to Miss Ella O'Malley, daughter of Mr. J. O'Malley, Otira Hotel. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Father O'Hallohan, Kumara, assisted by Very Rev. Dean Carew, Greymouth. The bridesmaids were Miss K. Sheedy and Miss M. O'Malley, Mr. J. O'Malley, Jim. being best man. After the ceremony the guests, numbering 100, partook of the wedding breakfast The usual toasts were proposed by Rev. Father O'llallohan, Very Rev. Dean Carew, and Messrs. Grifien, Phillips, Guthrie, M. J. Petrie, Dr. Morice, Junr., and others. The happy couple left in a special conveyance for Castle Hill en route for Christchurch and the North, where the honeymoon is to be spent. The presents on view, which included those presented to the bridegroom by the choir and the Railway employees, were numerous and useful. A large number of telegrams were received from all parts of New Zealand, including a happily worded one from the Right Hon. the Premier and Mrs. Seddon, who never forget old friends. Mr. Styles, the District Railway Manager, spoke in glowing terms of the appreciation in which the bride and her family were held by the railway employees. In the evening dancing was indulged in by young and old to music skilful y played by Mrs. W. Thomas. Those who had not previously seen the spacious new hotel erected at this picturesque spot were surprised beyond measure at the completeness of this fine building, which contains 40 rooms. Standing as it does at the entrance to the far-famed Otira Gorge, surrounded by snow-clad< mountains towering thousands of feet high, it is indeed an ideal place for a quiet holiday. >s