Minutes before the ceremony was to begin, the family of the groom reportedly asked her father for 1 . 2 million rupees ( US $ 25, 000 ) in cash, apart from the many expensive gifts offered to the groom's family under the marriage arrangement _ including a new car, two refrigerators, two television sets and two cooking ranges.
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Fred Metters was born in Melbourne the eighth son of James Metters ( c . 1821 2 October 1881 ), a bricklayer from Cornwall who specialized in setting ovens and cooking ranges, and his wife Susan Metters, n�e Flux ( c . 1824 4 July 1875 ), from the Isle of Wight, who arrived in Victoria some time before December 1854.
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The food, however, has not been universally praised, with Matthew Norman of " The Daily Telegraph " writing that the : " . . . cooking ranges from the merely comforting to the plainly inedible; and which, despite the unstinting efforts of its publicists at Freud Communications to festoon newspaper pages with tidings of its stellar clientele, barely qualifies as the best restaurant on its own premises ."
