Within the last few days great preparations have been making at Petoni for a native entertainment on rather an extensive scale, to be given by Ep uni and the natives of his tribe to Rangihaeata and his followers. A sort of scaffolding had been erected nearly thirty feet in length, and as many feet high, from which depended strings of dried muscles nearly reaching to the ground, while underneath there were piled large quantities of baskets of kumeras and potatoes, on which were laid the carcases of several large pigs that had been slaughtered for the occasion. Monday was the day appointed for the feast, but it appears that from some subsequent arrangement the feast has been postponed, and will, it is said, ultimately take place at Porirua.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 597, 23 April 1851, Page 3
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128Untitled New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 597, 23 April 1851, Page 3
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