WEDDING BELLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 5, 31 January 1901, Page 15

WEDDING BELLS.

CARROLL — HKPLIN. A very pretty wedding- (writes a correspondent) took place at St. Laurence's Church, Mataura, on the l'.»th inst, when Mies Annie Heslin, eldest daughter of Mr John Heslin, was married to Mr Thomas Carroll, second eon of Mr Robert Carroll. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. P. O'Donnell, who celebrated a Nuptial Mass. The wedding breakfast was laid at the residence of the bride's parents, when a large number of truests were present. Several toast 1 - were duly honored. If £ood wif-hes count for anything. Mr and Mrs Carroll should be extremely happy and successful in life. In the evening to.4 part"it>- of the bridegroom entertainul a number of frit nrls cf both p.ulie*. The presents were of an ornamental and useful character, -uul their number showed the esteem in which the newly-wedded couple are held by a large circle of Litnds.

Not alone was the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Byrne, Bi-Tiop of Bathurot, the cause of deep sorrow to bis own flock, but the sad event was looked up,m a-* a public calamity by all denominations. The Anglican Bishop of Bathur-t, in the course of a sermon delivered on the Sunday following Bishop Byrne's death, referred in feeling terms to the loss sustained iby the Catholic community • During the IS years of t'ueir a< quaintance,' he said, 'no difficulties had ivcr arisen bftweeii tlun, They were constantly meeting in the days of Bit-hop Byrne's good health, and though both were strong believers in thur respective communions*, yet their friendship had never a break in it. He sympathised with the members of the Catholic Church in their sad bereavement, and he was confident that in so saying ho voieid the feeling of every Anglican in the diocese.' The Rev. James Kinghorn.of St. Stephen's (Presbyterian) Church, said : ' The whole community joins with our brethren of the Catholic Church this day in their sorrow ; but while we condole with them on their grout lo c s. we congratulate them on having had bo long as their chi' f pa«tor Mich a man as Dr. Byrne, whose gentle, faithful, unselfi.sh hte, and whose peaceful and triumphant death have been, and will be, a lts«on and inspiration to them and to us all. I was not long resident in Bathurst before I learnt that Bishop Byrne was respected and beloved by all classes of the community ; and when I got to know him for myself, and became acquainted with many of his people, I did not wonder at the great esteem in which he was held. What he was in his Episcopal and ministerial relations we on judge from the proceedings of last Sunday, and still more from our observations of our Catholic friends and acquaintances. During this week I have seen not only gentle women, but strong men grow dim-eyed, and gulp down their tears aa they answered my enquiries about their good Bishop. I Bhall say no more. His modest spirit would have deprecated the words I have already uttered. It is not mere eulogy, but simply truth, to sum up by Haying that Bathurst has lost a good citizen, a true man, a faithful friend, and devoted minister of Jesus Christ, in the passing of J ot-eph Byrne.'

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