"GREATEST CHIEF."

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 70, 23 March 1934, Page 5

"GREATEST CHIEF."

KING GEORGE AT SUVA.

DUSKY LEADER'S PROPHECY.

CAKOBAU "WAGGED HIS TAIL"

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SUVA, March 19.

A good story is told by Mr. Fison, whose father was a missionary in Fiji in the old days, concerning the visit of the two princes, the late Duke of Clarence and the Duke of York (our present King), in the Bacchante to Levuka, the then capital.

The Governor, Sir Arthur Gordon, had some of the native drink, yagona, prepared in the native fashion, and offered it to the Royal visitors. The Duke of Clarence would not face it, but the Duke of York took the coconut shell (I>ilo) and swallowed the lot, throwing the cup in the air, quite a la Fijian. When the time came for Cakobau to make a speech, lie said: "We Fijians are very proud that the great Queen has sent her grandsons to visit us in Fiji; our pride is great, and we thank Her' Majesty for sending you, her srandsons. There is one thing that makes us sad, and it is that the yagona has been refused by one of the great chiefs; that one will never be a great chief. The other, however, will become the greatest chief in the world, and we are proud of him. Our hearts are too full for words. Oh, that we "were dogs, that our joy might be seen by the wagging of our tails." How true came the prophecy of this dusky potentate in regard to King George is now known to all the world.

The Neolithic or Newer Stone Age was when man ground and polished his stone implements, hafting his axes and lances, etc., and showing skill in theiisliape, as in barbed arrowheads. Rustics called these "elf-darts," and them as charms against the "little folk."