BROWN/SMITH  21st June 1896 Marriage - One Aloysius Marmaduke "Bertie" Brown, recent arrival from Irvinebank in the Herberton Mining District was joined in Holy Matrimony to Miss Alice Smith, youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs William Smith of Spence Street in a ceremony conducted at St. John's church, Cairns . Poor Brown, who did not look at all well, was assisted into the church by the bride's sturdy brothers, with Smith snr taking up the rear guard. It was an otherwise quiet wedding, made noteworthy however by the vigorous participation of the elder Smith both during the service and at the reception which followed at the Gaiety Cafe in the aptly-named Sach's Street. Old Smith in his self-appointed role of Master of Ceremonies ensured that all the contractual formalities of the occasion were completed to his satisfaction, barring the consummation itself, upon which point all were agreed that this condition had already been fulfilled. The happy couple (Brown having recovered his spirits somewhat during the conviviality of the evening) then departed by dray for a short honeymoon in Room 38 of Mrs Doolan's boarding house at Smith's Creek.