To the Editor of the Southern Cross.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 17, 12 August 1843, Page 4

To the Editor of the Southern Cross.

g IRj — I trust you will excuse the liberty I tako of suggesting whether as good and loyal citizens we ought not, on the arrival of our New Governor, to greot him with a hearty welcome in some public manner on his landing. For my part I should propose it, of course, as a holiday amongst all classes, and that they assemble near to the landing place, and form in rows of two's or three's, and march to the Government Gates, preceded by a band of music of our townsmen, whose exertions would add much to enliven the scene, as wo are deficient of a military band ; His Excellency either preceding or following them, as it may seem best. lam sure there is not a man in Auckland and its neighbourhood who would not feel proud to bo present on such an important and glorious change in the administration of the govornment of this ill-used colony, whose advancement and prosperity have been so long thrown aback by the ignorance and selfishness of its first rulers. It will be an interesting epoch in the annals of New Zoaland ; that better times may soon open to us, and that wo may no longer be treated as slaves, but as what we really are— -free born Britons. — Huzza ! ! I am, Sir, &c., Auckland, July 24, 1843.