WEDDING BELLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 27, 6 July 1899, Page 19

WEDDING BELLS.

TEEBTON — GLEESON. A fashionable wedding took place in St. Patrick's Cathedral on Wednesday, June 21st (writes our Auckland correspondent), the contracting parties being Mies Kate Gleeson, daughter of Mr. Patrick Gleeßon, well known in many parts of this Colony, and* Mr. Malcolm Treston, son of Mr. P. Treston, Dunedin. The church was crowded when the bridal party entered. The ceremony was performed by the Very Rev. Monsignor McDonald, assisted by the Very Rev. Dean O'Reilly and Rev. Father Kehoe. The bride was given away by her father. The bridesmaids were Misses Lynch (cousin of the bride), and K. Treston (sister of the bridegroom). The best men were Messrs. W. Lynch and G. Magnus. At the conclusion of the ceremony Monsignor McDonald briefly addressed the young couple. The cathedral organist, Mr. Hartwell, played the 1 Wedding March ' as the wedding party was leaving the cathedral. The breakfast, a m ost sumptuous one, was Berved at the Clarendon Hotel, and fully one hundred and fifty guests sat dowc. The gathering included the late Mayor (Mr. P. Dignan), Mr. W. J. Napier (chairman of the Harbour Board), Dr. Sharman, and Messrs.* Moss Davis, A. Myers, T. Lonargan, W. Kirby, Tapper, and' Masters M. and J. aDd S. Gleeson (brothers of the bride), from the Jebuit College, Sydney, Meedames Davis, Sharman, Tapper, Whithan, Smith, Duval, Hiscocks, Armstrong, Flynn, O'Brien' Garrett, Ryan, C. and J. Lynch, Muckelstone, Duffy, Parsons, and' Homan, Misses Shanaghan, Lcnargan, Davis (2). Ryan, McLean and Mitchell. Mgr. McDonald proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom, to which the latter buitabiy responded. Felicitous rem arks followed from Messrs. P. Glee&on, Napier, Armstrong, and Magnus, the latter representing the Massey, Harris Company, with which the bridegroom was long and honourably associated. Mr. P. Gleeßon gave as a present the Prince Arthur Hotel, freehold, and a cheque for £500, while numerous and very costly presents were giv en by friends in Auckland, Napier, and Dunedin. Among the presents were some from the choir of the Catholic Church, Dannevirke, of which Mrs. Treston had been a member, and from the Rev. Father Cahill. The bridegroom's presents to the bride were a gold bangle and brooch set with diamonds, to Mrs. Gleeton, gold diamond brooch ; to Mrs. Lynch, Miss K. Lynch, and Miss K. Treston, gold brooches ; to Mr. W. Lynch, set of gold links ; to Mr*. G. Magnus, diamond studs. The bride was dressed in a beautiful I i vory duchess patin embroidered with pearl, and wreath and veil. Mrs. Gleeson, mother of the bride, wore a black moire silk dress, trimmed with pink silk. The bridesmaids were dressed in white silk trimmed with yellow chiffon, with white felt hats and ostrich plumes. In the afternoon the newly-married pair left by train for Rotorua returning on Saturday evening, and on Monday left for Sydney! where, after a short Btay, they return to settle in business in Auckland.