LORD CRANBROOKS FIFTY YEA US OF MARRIED LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9082, 16 June 1888, Page 3 (Supplement)

LORD CRANBROOKS FIFTY YEA US OF MARRIED LIFE.

Festivities on an extensive scale havo been held at Benenden, Kent, in celebration of the golden wedding of Lord and Lady Cranbrook. Divine service was held at the parish church in the morning, at which Lord and Lady Canbrook and family wero present. On leaving the church, the volunteers, who formed a guard of honour, fired tijeu dejoie- In the afternoon tho wholo of the tenantry dined together at Hemstcd House, at which his lordship and Lady Cranbrook presided. Mr. R. Neve, the steward, proposed " the health of Lord and Lady Cranbrook and family," and presented to them a very handsome Bible on behalf of the tenantry. Lord Cranbrook, who was received with great cheering, in responding, said it ill bocame him to say much bofore Lady Cranbreok, but he might say that all he had set himself to do when he married he had fulfilled, and if the new wine was good ho could say the old was bettor. He believed that a great part of their happiness had been due to the unity which existed in the family, and as they approached tho setting sun the shadows seemed gilded with the chastening which wns to fit them for the world to come. It Imd been said that a man who married young was marred ; but he married early, and a lifo that might have been marred had. been made useful. Other addresses followed. The presents were very numerous.