A WEDDING IN LONDON OF INTEREST TO NEW ZEALAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 3308, 8 August 1917, Page 56

A WEDDING IN LONDON OF INTEREST TO NEW ZEALAND.

There was a large congregation at St Maryle bone Parish Church on June 5, when Miss Kathleen Airini Mair, only child of Captain Gilbert Mair, N.Z.C., and the late Mrs Mair (nee Sparry), of Auckland, New Zealand, was married to Captain the Hon Ralph Frederick Tempest-Vane, Durham Li?ht Infantry, youngest son of Lord and Lady Barnard, of Raby Caetle. Colonel Hamilton Pelly gave the bride away. She looked beautiful in her dress of white satin with tunic of gold and white brocade over a skirt of pleated white tull. Her Russian headdress of orange blossoms was worn over a veil of old Brussels lace, lent by Mrs Harington Stuart. The bridal bouquet was of white roses, orange blossom, and stephanot;s from the gardens of Raby Castlo. The only bridesmaid was Miss Juliet Madocks (cousin), who wore a frock of ecru net and a gold filet cap. Captain T. M. D. Robson was the best man. The ceremony was performed by the Kev. William Clark. At its conclusion a reception was held by Mrs W. L. Buller and Mrs "W. R. N. Madocks at 21 York terrace, kindly lent by Mrs Harington Stuart. Among those invited were Lord and Lady Barnard, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the Dowager-Countess of Harrowby, the Dowager-Countess of Longford, Victoria Lady Carberry, Viscount and Viscountess Gougb, the Lady Lotiisa Cecil, Lady Francis Cecil, Lady Isabella Battie Wrightson," Major the Hon. and Lady Enid Vane, Captain the Hon. C. W. Vane, the

Hon. Lord and Lady Katheiine Vane, Lord »nd Lady Newlands. Lord and Lady William Cecil, Colonel Lord John and Lady John Joicoy Cecil, the Hon. Mrs Madocks, Colonel and Mrs Madocks, the Hon. Gideon and Mrs Murray, Mr and Mrs Walter L. Jiuller, Colonel and Mrs Hamilton Pelly, Mrs Stanley Edgar, Mrs Dalton, Mrs Tennant, Mr and Mrs Parkin, Mrs Henry Walton, Mr and Mrs K. D. D. M'Lean, the Mieses Ridley, Miss Evans Freke, Miss Beatrice Dobie, Miss Esther Barker,. Miss Juliet Madocks, Mr Bedford, Lieutenant Melville. This marriage should be of special Interest to New Zealanders. Miss Mail (who has been studying art for some years under Miss Lucy Kemp-Welch and other well-known artists) is the daughter of the late Mrs Mair (nee Miss Kate Sperry), a well-known New Zealand artist. When the war broke out Miss Mair decided to take up nursing, and she eoon beoame an efficient and sympathetic nurse. She was in a .Hospital at Malta for over a year, and later at Codford Hospital.