WEDDING BELLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 7, 17 June 1898, Page 15

WEDDING BELLS.

A very pretty but quiet wedding took place at St. John's Church, larnell, on May HO last, the contracting parties being- Mr. John Kays, J.P., of Auckland, and Miss Rosa Hall, of Xewmarket. The liev. t ather Ivehoe was the officiating priest. The bride was dressed in a handsomely braided petunia cloth costume, with trimmings of cream eatin and lace, hat to match. The bridesmaid, Miss Dorothy uillett, wore a handsome brown dress, with pink silk trimmings and velvet toque. The bride wa« given awny by Mr G M Reed, of the .Herald, and Mr. P. Foley acted as groomsman. After the wedding breakfast at the heme of the bride's mother, Mr. and Mrs, Kays left by rail for the Waikato. Many handsome presents were given to the happy pair, who are well-known and highly respected in Auckland. J * vA Very P rett y wedding was celebrated at the Christchurch ProLathedral by the Very Rev. Father Le Menant des Chesnais, S.M., Vicar-General, on May 9, when Mr. J. H. Rowe, of the Bank of New bouth Wales, Inglewood, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Miss Mary Alice Baker-Gabb. The bride, who is a daughter of Charles Baker-Gabb. Esq., of Llwyn-du Court, Monmouthshire, is also a niece of the late John Baker-Gabb, Esq., Knight of St. Crregory, Private Chamberlain to his Holiness Pope Leo XIII. and the late Pius IX.; while the bridegroom is a nephew of the Rev. lather H. C. Fletcher, 0.P., some time Prior of the Dominican Priory of Holy Cross, Leicester, and now of St. Dominick's Priory, Haverstock Hill, London.