WEDDING BELLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 17, 2 September 1898, Page 20

WEDDING BELLS.

Our Christchurch correspondent writes that a very pretty wedding took place recently at St. Joseph's Church, Port Lyttelton. The Rev. Father Salvador conducted the ceremony. The bride was Miss Agnes Cole, and the bridegroom was Mr. J. A. McEwen of Christchurch. Mr. F. P. Cole acted as be^t man. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr. W. J. Cole, wore a gown of white cashmere, trimmed with white corded silk and chiffon, and the orthodox veil and orange blossoms, and carried a handsome shower bouquet. The bridesmaids were ML»ses Winifred and Rose Cole, sisters of the bride, wearing shower muslin dresses, with buttercup satin sashes and lace hats prettily trimmed with chiffon and buttercups, and carrying lovely bouquets of while flowers, the gifts of the bridegroom. The other bridesmaids were two small nieces of the bride, Misses Maud and Ethel Cole, who wore white muslin dresses and pink sashes and carried baskets of flowers. After the ceremony the relatives of the newly married couple adjourned to the residence of the bride's father, where the wedding breakfast was held.

The shop window of Miss H. R. Morrison, George street, ia at present an attractive spectacle, a very large assortment of stylish foot wear — boots and shoes in every mode — being on view. „,% The Jubilee Colliery is now in full working order and is connected by railway, and the coal, which is a brown coal of superior quality, may be obtained from any coal merchant. An advertisement referring to the matter appears in this issue. „** Messrs A. and T. Inglis' annual sale this year has proved even more successful than those of preceding years. Country residents will be interested to learn that the sale closes on the 10th inst. —^% Besides importing direct photographic goods, Mr. H. J. Gill, photographer of Frederick street. Dunedin, makes a specialty of bromide portraits in black and white or oil -coloured, which he sends to any address. Mr. Gill's advt. dealing with the matter appears in this issue. — ** » An amateur botanist in Voronezh, Mr. Fetisoff, has succeeded in cultivating roses of a pure black colour. His persistent experiments lasted more than ten years, and he intends shortly to exhibit his new black roses in London.