BRAND MAORI WEDDING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4614, 9 January 1894, Page 3

BRAND MAORI WEDDING.

lal&days of deoline on the part of the' Maori race from the good old ways taught them by their first and best friends the Missionaries, it is refreshing to hear of a really genuine old fashioned wedding such as that wuioh took place yeßterday in • Grejtown, A gentleman informs us (Wairarapa Standard) that his attention was attracted in passing a Maori residence at the south end of Greytown yesterday afternoon by an ;aßSembled orowd of Maoris, and upon enquiry he was informed that a mam'Bgo ceremony was taking place and he -was invited to enter, On entering be was struck with too scene that presented itself to his view; the building, everjfroom of which was full of those eager to witness the ceremony, -was beautiMy clean and dressed with flowers ana evergreens for the occaision. 'There at the head of a table covered with flnowy white cloth, stood the venerable' Te Kooti, Wesleyan Native Minister, with bent form, bald head, and features expressive of virtue and benevolence, his books and papers before him, a picture of the old tims pastor. Infrontof him stood the happy couple, Huri Ana and Heta Hemi te iMiha. Thebridera fine buxom young jMaonladyofionie twenty eummers, fromXaapoi, .'Sl'i was attired in an lelemnt; dress with wreath and veil, t\awA; « : siy ': ?? eeD in grace and cerempny, : was ap ■ ieverenti •ana;;;Jh'e ;: re. tew dißtiricfly given. At .tbß»Qlose ( I forward to' rub noses the Bide* .wd'b *i«i> The neual feast woand.up