EARLY DUNEDIN
LOYAL ENTHUSIASM SHOWN. According to the letters of the Walker brothers, Dunedin celebrated the marriage of Edward, Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward VII, to Prin • cess Alexandra of Denmark (which took place on March 10, 1863) with suitable pomp. On June 30 “Triumphal arches were erected in different places down the main street. A bullock was roasted whole in the ‘Octagon,’ a large open piece of ground in front of the Church. I went to see it when it was nearly done and it did not look at all inviting. It was all shrivelled up to about half size. There was a sheet of galvanised iron by way of dripping pan. Casks of ale were set abroach in the streets by patriotic publicans with suitable toasts painted on thertt." But this was not the end of the jollity. •‘There was a grand procession . . .
The only music obtainable for the procession was a pair of bagpipes. There was a free dinner to all comers in the Provincial sale yards, consisting of roast beef, plum pudding, beer and wine. The scene was something terrific.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1939, Page 9
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184EARLY DUNEDIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1939, Page 9
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