SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 67, 12 December 1907, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Weddings. , St. Thomas's Church, Newtown./was full yesterday afternoon when ,Miss Lily May Barbor, daughter of Mr. W. H. P. Barber, M.P., was marriod to Mr. William Jack Day, of Palniorston North. , The brido wore a dross of whito embroidered muslin,., with veil and orango blossoms. She was attended by tliroo'•bridesmaids, Misses Lucy Brightwell, Doris Poareo, and Miss Gibbon, who wore frocks of whito silk muslin, with white chip hats I rimmed with tulle and pink roses. Mr. M. Toinlim acted as best man, and Mr. l'lrni'st Johnston as groomsman. The corcmonv was performed by tho P.ev-: Mr. Walker. Alter tlfo wedding a reception was hold at the Newtown Town Hall, which was very beautifully decorated with roses... Over two hundred guests wcre\ present'. Mrs. Barbor woro a gown of champagne.and pink shot' silk, and a hat trimmed with delicate shades of heliotrope; Miss Barber was in pale pink, with white hat; Mrs. Luxford, black silk, and heliotrope and black hat; Mrs. Gibbons, silver-grey frook .with black hat; Mrs. Chilton, whito silk. Among the other guests were tho Hon. C. M. ,-Luke and Mrs. Luko, and Mr. J.-'G.,W. Aitken, M.P.

Mr. Herbert R. Searle was married at St. Peter's Church yesterday afternoon to Miss Minnie Ranger, second daughter of Mr. John Ranger, of Epuni Street. The ceremony was performed bv the Rev. G. P. Davys, and Dr. Eyffe presided at the organ. The bride wore a robe of hand-embroidered mpusselino de soie over glace, silk, and a wreath and voil, She was attended by Miss Cecilia Graham, who wore a tnilor-ma.de : costume of cremo serge, and crinoline hat with pink roses. Two 'little maids, Misses Dolly Gray and Mavis Bilderbeck, wore dainty pale blno silk and wreaths of lily of tho .valley, and carried baskets of flowers. Mi'. .Laurie Townsend acted as best man. The' honeymoon is to be spent in Sydney.

At the Courtenav Place Congregational Church Mr. George R. Lindsay, eldest son of Mr. Alfred Lindsay, junior, was niarriod to Miss A. Christenson, eldest daughter of Mr. A. Christenson, Mein Street. The Rev. M. Aspland officiated. . . ■

With a view to giving the children at the Home of Compassion, Island Bay, a liappy Christmas, a committee , of ladies has been formed to undertake the task of collecting funds and goods for a Christmas 1 tree and fete. The members of the committee are Mrs. T. W. liislop, Lally Ward, Miss Berry (acting matron of Wellington Hospital), Mrs. A. A. Corrigan (hon. .treasurer), and Mrs. Rolleston (lion. see.). Subscriptions are asked for towards the cost of the tree and the fotc, and contributions of toys,- etc., for the children. Subscription lists have [been printed, and if any lady or gentleman can find time and opportunity to collect for-this purpose Mrs. Rolleston, of 3 Willis Street, will be happy to send a subscription list. She will also bo pleased to receive,individual subscriptions. If more money is' collected than is required for the Christmas celebration it will bo handed over to the Honie of Compassion.'

• Wellington began its social life at an early hour yesterday, and when the dawn camc in it looked on many an old fricncL. in. unfamiliar attire. Cloaks, motor-veils, and bedroom slippers were the order of the day, and nobody minded because everyone was so intensely interested in the progress of tho fire. Thero was a time, about 200 hundred years ago, I think, when London was visited by a severe earthquake, and before thq people'- had recovered' from their fright it was co'nfidciiitly' predicted that another, and a destructive, earthquake would occur on a given"night."' No"one dreamed of doubting the prediction; London determined to spend that night out of doors, and it is s.iid that shops did a roaring trado in what were advertised as " negligees suitable for wearing in the squares and parks the night the earthquake comes." London must havo looked like a great fancy dress ball that night, when tho earthquake did not come. One would not like' to suggest any extravagance, , but there is no doubt that in a city of great fires such as this, picturesque costumes, specially designed for tho occasions, would be most useful.