“His Excellency the Governor landed from H.M.S. Wolverene between seven and eight o’clock, and immediately afterwards proclamation was made by the Mati ni Vanuas of Cakaudrove that the chief was about to be installed; an announcement which was met by the beating of all the _lalis_ in the town, and by peculiar cries and shouts by the people assembled from within their houses, inside which, by immemorial usage, they were expected to remain during the ceremony. After these regulation cries, the most death-like silence was observed until the close of the proceedings. The elders of the province then assembled in the large house occupied by the late Tui Cakau, and were all carefully seated according to the rank and precedence of each, an operation requiring some time. When this was accomplished, his Excellency and his staff entered the building and the making of _yaqona_ commenced. According to the etiquette on these occasions, this was made in silence, without any song or _méké_; and, when made, various set forms of speech and response were uttered, the names and deeds of the ancestors of the new chief commemorated, and prayers for blessings on the people, the fruits, the animals, &c., of the land, pronounced, these being almost an exact counterpart of those formerly addressed to the heathen gods, but which were now offered to the True God and the Holy Spirit. On the conclusion of these ceremonies, his Excellency declared the bowl of _yaqona_ just taken from the _tanoa_, to be that for the drinking of the ‘Na Turaga ko na Roko Ratu Tui Cakaudrove,’ thereby conferring that designation on Ratu Lala, who drank its contents. “When he had done so, the Mati ni Vanua again made proclamation, and the same beating of _lalis_ and tumultuous shouting which had preceded the commencement of the proceedings, was repeated, and the injunction on the people to remain within doors removed.