WEDDING BELLS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1030, 20 April 1894, Page 5

WEDDING BELLS.

Notwithstanding the early hour and the steady rain there was a large attendance at the Presbyterian Church here on Wednesday morning to witness the marriage of Nellie, eldest daughter of Mr John Turnbull, Manager Bank of New Zealand, here, to Dr Mullin, of Boxburgh. > Before 9 o'clock the building, the interior of which had been profusely decorated with flowers, etc., for the occasion, was well filled, the female sex, as is usual on such occasions, predominating, but there being also a fair sprinkling of males'. Of those more immediately interested the bridegroom was the first to arrive, accompanied by his " beat man," Dr Fleming, while punctually to the hour the carriages drove up with the bride and her party, consisting of her four sisters as bridesmaids. Mr Turnbull and friends. Mr CuiTie was the officiating clergyman, and the service was choral, Mrs Grigor presiding at t the organ. The service only occupied a few* minutes, and after the usual formalities had been observed in the vestry, the newly married couple passed through the church amid a shower of roses and other blossoms, which, happily, now take the place of the obsoleteand irritating rice nuisance, The bride wore a brown travelling dress and looked bright and happy — an emblem, as all here hope and believe, of her future life. The bridesmaids were similarly attired. . The party drove to Mr Turnbull's house for the wedding breakfast, and a pleasant hour was spent, the bridal party leaving at 11 o'clock for Boxburgh via the lakes. The bride was a special favourite in a large circle of friends ujk? acquaintances, and the presents she received were unusually valuable and numerous. The Sunday school of the Presbyterian Church, of which she was one of the teachers, presented her with a handsome morocco-bou\id bible and amongst other gifts we noticed the following : — Afternoon cups and saucers, two sets afternoon tea spoons (gold and silver), silver teapot, set fruit knives and forks, fruit stand (silver and crystal), two dinner cruets, breakfast cruet, salad bowl and, service, butter knives (8), silver egg stand, biscuit barrel, two sets napkin rings r silver salt cellars, muffineers, sugar basket and sifter, butter cooler, three jelly dishes, jelly spoons, toast rack, bread fork, pickle forks, two sets trays, easel, flower bowl , workhasket, album, marble clock, set of Eliot's and Tennyson's works, painted photo panels and plaques, cushions, and a lot of very beaut/ful sewed and fancy work by her girl frierjds; but it would be difficult to enumerate the many other eminently useful articles' of which Miss Turnbull was the recipient,'