SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1243, 27 September 1911, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wedding at Carterton. A wedding in which a. great deal of interest \ras centred took place in ht. Andrew's Church, Carterton, yesterday nitwnoon, when Miss Alice. Punter, of Portreo House. Barry, South Wales, was married to Dr.-Roderick-M. Gunn, formerly of Aberdeen, Scotland, and now of Ciirtei-ton. The church had been prettily decorated for the occasion, and the service, which was fully choral, was-per-formed by the Rev. L. Thompson. J. he bride was given away by Dr. Johnston, and wore a verv pretty white embroidered frock and a lnrgo Tagel straw hat with white ostrich plumes. She carried a shower bouquet of white hsather and maidenhair fern. The. Misses Beth. Elizabeth, and Jean Johnston, and Miss Cormack attended her as bridesmaids, wearing frocks of white ninon and lace finished with silver girdles. Mi>s Jean Johnston ami Miss Connack wore largo black hats- lined with blue and trimmol ivitli lace and pink roses, while the two younger bridesmaids had on Juliet raps "of silver net and pink roses. Dr. Archer Hosking. of Masterlon, was the best man, and Dr. M'liao, of Teniii, wasgroomsmaii. -The bride's gift trom the Cuidegroom was an aquamarine pendant, and the bridegroom received a sold scarf pin' from the bride. To the bridesmaids were given a beautiful moonstone necklet each. After tho ceremony a reception was held at "Ctirringtou Lodge, the home of Dr. and Mrs. Johnston, and later on in the afternoon Dr. and Mrs. Gunn left for the south, the latter wearin" a travelling costume of biscuit-col-oured cloth with a white straw hat trimmed with tiny pink roses ami black and white ribbon. Mrs. J6hnston wore a handsome dress of black velvet with'cerise trimming and a hat of the same colouring. Mrs. . George Johnston was in black sill: and a black straw hat. Among the guests were Mrs. Kevins (Tenui), Mrs. Vallance, Mrs. W. Howard Booth, Mrsi J. L. Blundell, Mrs. Lightfoot, Mrs. Corninek, Mrs. ManGoun. Miss Whitehorn. Miss Maunsell, Mrs. E. Groves, Miss S lit ten, Mrs. Sutton, Miss Morrison, 'Miss K. Morrison, and many others, Tenui being particularly well represented, owing to the fact that Di\ Gunn had at one time been living there. -Dr. , and Mrs. Gunn will lire in ■Carterton. Feilding Wedding. ■ A ■pretty, wedding was celebrated at Feilding -yesterday morning, when Mr. Hu"h Gilchrist, of Hamilton, was married'to Mis*.-Clara, Charles, daughter of. Mr. 'and Mrs.'E. Charles, of Aorangl. The brido was attended by her sisters., tho Misses May and Eunice Charles, and Miss Zeta Lowry, as bridesmaids, and Mr. E. M'Farland was the-best man. Tho coremony was performed by the ... Rov. Father Kincaid, and Mr. Charles gave his daughter away.

Lectures by Mrs. Barton. Mrs. Helen Barton, in. response to a request from the lady members of the Hataitai No-License League, gave pn addross there yesterday afternoon, when upwards of 100 ladies were present. The speaker dealt' with the question of liquor from an economic and social standpoint, and urged her audience to take an active part in promoting the social welfare' of the Dominion. That, she stated, could bo well attained by working in the interests of No-License. Votes of thanks were passed to Mrs. Whitcombe for presiding and to Mrs. .M'Goldrick and Mrs. M'Gili for providing afternoon tea. There was a good audience at O'Donnell's Hall, at Kilbivnie, last evening to listen to Mrs. Helen Barton's lecture upon temperance. Mr. D. M'Laren, M.P., was to have' presided over the meeting, but at tho last moment found that he was unable to bo present. Mr. Powler, of Kilbirnie; took his place. Mrs. Barton spoke for an hour and a. half upon various aspects of the drink question. Speaking of the disrvise which sl\3 alleged resulted from it, s'tie stated that tluro weio few people who would' not do anything to lessen tho ravages of cancer an J consumption, and yet in regard to diseases due to drink they would do nothing. Professor Salmpnd, tho speaker snicl, in his recent book ha<l stated that people should wait till they wero forty before they began to .drink at all. If they waited till then they wouid not drink at all. Most of tho=e who suffered from the disease of drink began under thirty years of age —often under the age of twenty-one, in spite of the law. The meeting concluded with a hearty vote of thanks to Mrs. Barton. Large Bequests. The English files to hand contain details of thi) will of Lady Russell, widow of Sir Peter Nieol Russell, a former ironmaster, of Sydney. Now Fouth Wales, and a benefactor of the Sydney University. The gross value of the estato was £1~6,%Q. and after making several bequests, including .£10,(100 to Dr. Barnardo's Homes, JCIO.OOO to the Salvation Army, £5000 to (lie Church Army, XWO a year to hor maid, and pensions to several other servants, slip left- the as. to one share to her sister 'Mrs. Dcanc). one share to Dr. Baniardo's Homes, and one share to the Church Army. Instructions were loft to Lady Russeil's maid to bike care of her favourite horse and her dogs until their deaths.