A PLEASANT WEDDING.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2825, 27 November 1903, Page 2

A PLEASANT WEDDING.

Some three months ago. Mr Morgan Tot , hill Lawrence, a brother of Mrs Mackay of the Criterion Hotel, and a resident oi the pretty town of Oberon, near Bathurst, N.8.W., was in ill health and came over to fee his Akaroa relatives. The climate euiied him to perfection, and he soon recov ered, puitiog on a atone in weight for every month of his residenoe in Akaroa. It was Dot only hU health, however, that he gained by hia residence on Bm.ka Peninsula, but also a bride, for he met Miss Betsy Mackay. the youngest daughter of Mr Wm. Mackay of Robineeu's Bay, and she consented to re* burn with him to brighten hie Australian home. The marriage took place in the Pres* byterian Oharch, Akaron, on Tuesday after mon, the Rev. J. Pattison officiating. The bride was dressed in whife figured silk trim* mcd with lace, insertion, and orange bios , soins, and the orthodox veil, and she and the bridesmaids carried charming fjouquete the gifts of the bridegroom. Her bridesmaids were Miss Whitfidd, of Robinson's Bay, who wore a spotted muslin trimmed with blue chiffon, and the Misses Eva and Maud Mackry, the two pretty little nieces »f (he bridegroom, who were dressed in whife silk with blue streamers. The bridfs maids hats were white, and the bride's tra* v oil ing ilrefie was a fawn cashmere trimmed to match. Mr George Maokay, of the Ori - tcrioD, was the best man, and on the return of the wedding party to the hotel, they and

'heir fiiends met, when the rsual c n* monies were observed. The bride cut and distributed the Cake. Mr Jacobson proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom find Mr Maokay that of the bride's father. .-'Uitab'e responses were made, and ami Ist showers of rice the happy pair drove off to Little River, where they spent the t.igh ft Mr Null's hotel. Nfxr, day they wei.t on t> Chrietehurch. and to\iay they sail for Sydney. We with the young couple every prosperity and lmppinees.