NEW PLYMOUTH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 13, 26 March 1892, Page 304

NEW PLYMOUTH.

Dbab Bbk. March 10. Mr Brooke gave another of his popular organ recitals and again it was a great success, both as regards the entertainment provided and attendance. As regards music, I fear it will be a ease of eenbarrae de richeeeet tn New Plymouth. Mr Garry is back again, and so we hare charming band concerts now and then, and there is also some talk of a third musician taking up his abode here. Can three musical men make a living in a town of this size! Query. Well, to return to the recital, there were only two vocal solos, both of them good. Miss Margaret Newland gave us * Consider the Lilies,' and we enjoyed it thoroughly. It is alwayt a pleasure to listen to Mrs Robinson, who had chosen ‘As Pants the Hart for Cooling Streams ’ on this occasion. Mr Brook's selections were Mendelssohn’s • Wedding March,’ also Andante Grazioeo in E Minor (Batiste), and ‘Silver Trumpets’ (Viviani). His own composition, an Adagio in A Flat, found great favour with his audience. And now I must tell you about a wedding which has taken place here lately, or rather in this district. The little town of Urenui, about twenty miles from New Plymouth, was quite in a flutter of excitement. The road was thronged with carriages and horsemen from the neighbouring towns. By eleven o’clock the pretty little church was quite full of interested spectators to the first wedding which had ever taken place within its walls. The bride was Mias Marjorie Halcombe, eldest daughter of Mr A. F. Halcombe, and the bridegroom Mr Wilfred Tayler, of Marton, both being well known and very popular in the district. It was agreed by every one that this was one of the prettiest weddings that Taranaki has ever seen. The bride looked charming in soft white nierveilleux, simply made, and with a long train, and of course she wore the umal long tulle veil and orange blossom. Her bouquet was the envy of all present, and scented the whole building. Her two bridesmaids—her sister. Miss Queenie Halcombe, and Miss Frances Cornwall—wore white pongee dresses and hats, and bright yellow sashes, also gold brooches, gifts of the bridegroom. The best man was Mr M. C. Kevern. Archdeacon Govett, of New Plymouth, assisted by the R»v. T. Baker, of Waiters, performed the ceremony, and Mrs Baker played the • Wedding March ’as the bridal party left the church. If rose leaves have any share in promoting the happiness of newly-married couples Mr and Mrs Tayler ought to be blest indeed, for their way was literally paved with these scented blooms. There were trinmphal arches, too, gay with evergreens and flowers, and inscribed thereupon were the good wishesof Urenui’sinhabitants. There were also many visitors from New Plymouth and other parts. Amongst them I may mention Mr and Mrs Gibbons, Mrs H. B Leatham, Mr and Mrs Koy, Mrs Witcbell, and the Misses Govett, Hursthouse, Humphries, Newland, Captain and Mrs Cornwall, etc., etc. After the wedding the party partook of luncheon at Mr Halcombe’s residence, • Fern Grove,’ and the happy pair left by the afternoon train for Marton. The bride’s going away dress was of light brown tweed, with long cloak of the same faced with cardinal silk, and tweed hat also trimmed with cardinal. I have only time to write you a short letter this time, hut I have yet another wedding to describe—that of Miss Moffat, of Waitara. I must, however, put that off till next week.

Mignonne.