Cook Island Notes

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Cook Island Notes

From Our Own Correspondent RAROTONGA, Dec. 18.

A POPULAR wedding was celebrated with considerable eclat on December 5 at the Nikao home of Mr. and Mrs. W.

P. Browne, when their daughter, Patience Lillian, was married to Mr. Charles H.

Hollands, a member of the local staff of Messrs, A. B. Donald and Co.

The ceremony, which took place at the residence of the bride’s father, was performed by Rev. R. L. Challis, of the L.M.S., under a canopy of frangipani blossoms, and was followed immediately by a presentation of gifts.

Relatives of the bride deposited their presents in a quickly mounting pile at the feet of the newly married couple, who remained at one end of the spacious verandah.

A large number of beautifully plaited mats, and those incredibly neatly worked quilts known as taevaevaea were received, together with a quantity of other useful and valuable gifts given by various members of the European community.

The guests, numbering upwards of 500, were afterwards entertained at luncheon,