- "Amongst other startling events on the river (says the Rewa correspondent of the Fiji Argus, of November 25), a wedding on a grand scale has formed no inconsiderable share of the excitement, the occasion being the nuptials of two young half-castes, Charley Rounds and Mrs. Hester Pickering, the progenitors of both of whom have been long and favourably known in Fiji. The ceremony was performed at Rewa, on Saturday, the 12th instant, by the Rev. Father Fabier. After the ceremony, the assembled guests, numbering somewhere about 3000, more or less, indulged in festivities which lasted over several days, the dainties provided being 20,000 head of taro, 200 pigs, 4 bullocks, turtles, fish, and fowls innumerable. The wedding presents consisted of 4000 Masini-ni-Viti or tappa (native cloth), 100 bolts of cloth of English manufacture, 2000 mats, 1000 roots of kava, besides other innumerable native delicacies. A number of native dances were performed by the visitors, who came from all quarters, and who generally pronounced this to be the biggest thing of the kind which ever occurred in Fiji."
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Abt 1858 - (~ 166 years)