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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1679, 4 May 1904, Page 14

Rom teas** lies dead. Many years ago police proceedings stopped the custom of expressing goodwill to' newly-married people by beating kerosene-tins, but heretofore there has been n*s voice raised against the practice of showering rice over new-made brides and bridegrooms. From Nelson, however —Nelson, the lotus land of sunfehine and beauty—comes a complaint that “ the honeymoon nuisance threatens to become as annoying to railway travellers as the football nuisance.”; The fact is bewailed, that “a carriage on the train from Springfield the other evening ar- — rived thickly carpeted with 'rice, and the passengers complained that they bad been subjected to a discomfiting bombardment at one of tie wayside stations. 3 ’