FIJIAN FIREWALKERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81905, 18 December 1906, Page 2

FIJIAN FIREWALKERS.

■sum }&jiuimcjs. Per Press Assorjation. Christckureb,, December 17. llie tot of the .flro-walking per-. : ormances by the. troupe of aui took place at the Exhibition sports grounu this alter. Mo „n, and wa 3 witnessed by nearly im Bl , e(;ta tors. TJI p t was uug on Saturday, and tlia stones were I;Jlla>a iu pußition 4 covered with i„|lu,,un a blc wood brought ov, u . from -L'iji, in readies, tor to day. TJle waß Jlt ~. . morning llud Ule lo „ fi| ' u atones nkued aU day. ©1 alter,ttouu tins half burnt tyr„ wore rc .. moved, and the wood /ashes, etc., cleared away, leaving lk Blolu , B tensely hot. At a giveu &mi> the iirowalkers emerged. Iloul their place ot concealment, j- au t0 tllß pitj aud walked over Up. uot st ou'cs, leaving the nit at the p umt of eutrunce> xhey walked conku uuUy aud BW a t ly, and. were m the: y D lor a ) lt , t | c om . lla if a minute. ;^ U( , umumyg or the subsouucul leaf it was tlwu tU rowii upou luu ( stones, f Jld tue U i. e . lva ii iel . s lclU uiued kueelixij, ior a y me U j )uu IU(J luusttweS) A Cu -J<micneement was made with the, , dlljug in of the ovcu, when the crowd Milled round and caused operations t<> be suspended for a time. The oven was eventually tilled in, and will be left till Thursday, when the cooked niasawe will be eaten by the lire, walkers prior to the aocoud perforiui anee.