INVERCARGILL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 30, 26 November 1897, Page 20

INVERCARG ILL.

(From an occasional correspondent.) A DOUBLE WEDDING.

A very pretty and interesting event took place at St. Mary's, Clyde btreet, on the SJth iust., when the Mibses Mary and Annie Dalton (sisters) were joined in the holy bonds of wedlock, the former to Mr. Charles Bowlker, of Invercargill, and the latter to Mr. W. H. Sherlock, of the Bluff. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Father McGrath in a very impressive manner, who, previous to their becoming united, ga\e them some good advice on the duties anel responsibilities of inarrit el life.

The brides were given away by their father, Mr. James Palton. Th( y both looked charming, Miss Mary in electric blue and hat to match, aid Mi--s Annie- in erf am nun's veiling and picture hi«t, and the conventional orangi Iblosoms. They were attendel, as bridesmaid-;, the former by Miss Jiliie Burke, of Jnvercargill, and the latter by the Misses Muric and Alice K> ane-y, of Mataura, who wore cream drosses rind hats to match, with silver name brooches, the gilt of Mr. Sherlock. After the ceremony an adjournment was made to the residence of the parents, whe-re a sumptuous breakfast was laid. It was i artaken of by alaige number ot guests, who drank the health and future prosperity of the newly married couples ere they depaited fur your city by the express for the purpose of spending their honeymoon. As both young ladies were born at Invercargill and were well known there, there was a great display of enthusiasm at their wedding, nnd presents were in prolusion, too much for your space and my time to enumerate. Suilice it to say they came from Chiistchurch, Mot-giel, Duneelin, Uli.ff, Mataura. Gore, etc., and consisted of crockery, silver ware, cutlery, chairs, feather pillows, oil paintings, clocks, drapery, bed quilt^, and one donor made quite a iew departure m pivsentn g the luture Mr. and Mrs. Sherlock with a twelve months issue ot the Tablet. As the lady in question had been a member of the Invoreargill congregation and latteily had bee-n residing at Mataura, the Church there will lose an energetic member ; but as she is going to reside at the Bluff, that PinaJ. congregation will find devoted workers in the person of herself and her husband, who, I may add, is the \ery latest (in these parts) seceder from Anglicanism, and who was lecciveel into the Church by the Very Rev. Dean Burke a short time ago.