CELEBRATION OF THE TRANSIT OF VENUS.

Evening Star, Issue 3650, 3 November 1874, Page 3

CELEBRATION OF THE TRANSIT OF VENUS.

To the Editor. £ie, —Frequ-ut complaints have been made through the medium of the Press respecting the frivolous reasons for which holidays are decl red in this Province. Fr my own part, 1 do not think tr at holidays can be too numerous ; they can be made the means of doing much good, especially it made the occasion of rejo cing on account of something for which the majority of the people can have a sincere reverence—such lor instance, as the transit of Venus. Why not have a holiday in celebration of this great and glorious fact, and do honor to the intelligence that predicts and demonstrates for us so great and glorious a truth ? It requires no phi.osop’ ical or logical argument to prove how much more effective for doing good it w. u!d be to have holidays upon sach occasions as the transit of Venus in preference to the celebration of s me saint or object about which, in all probability, nine-tenths of the people know nothing and care even less. Indeed, to enter into any argument at all upon the subject I am afraid°would only tend to mysliiy the matter by calling forth some rep.y, and I would probably o dy be sneered at as a would-be philosoptler, so [ shall content mysoli by simply suggestion that the holiday declared for the 9th insb. be postponed to the Bth of December, so that a movement be at once commenced with the object of having the Bth of Uocember de dared a public holiday, and I J;ope that al! those who apprqvp of the siumeation will apeak out plainly upon the subj ct I am, &c., J. S. M. Dunedin, November 3