LOYALTY.

Evening Star, Issue 3651, 4 November 1874, Page 3

LOYALTY.

To the Editor. Sin,—-In your last mu.; appeared a letter asking, on grounds con fined therein, th.-t the holiday proclaimed for the 9th inst, be postponed until the Bth December. I. for my part, do not approve of such a step! for two reasons. V our correspondent states that bo!ida> a are productive of much good. So Bay J j but I go a little fur ther and state what th* good ie, thereby elucidating the Bubject p I wwld vrnly refer to tht fyrty

'’losing Association. Upon grounds similar fco those upon which y ch.im the Saturday half-holiday do I c!„i>n my occasional holilay, viz., that pppoit:nnyi + y may be afforded for a little reoreati- , a trip into the country, or awak on tie b?ach, all so conducive to he.ilsh. ow, i 'oust confess, sir, that -he logical or lacal argument—deemed so unneces a- by rour mui- must be forth mi.-r «re I can see how that object is to be ncccrco'.ish-d better on the day upon whicb ‘Vi-us” crosses the sun than on the bir'K-i y of Britain’s future king. I would also . i-v,.'dm that the 30th inat. is a holiday, at; v‘ ’! .runas and Aew i ear follow in due c.-t... . so if your correspondent’s sug.;e -.tion :-j <: rried out, our holidays will fab v «ry close upon each other. Again, I may .‘-iy assort that nineteuths of our citizens wi.l prefer to shew their loyalty by holair.t!.*- 9th inst. as a strict holiday, in cc with our established custom. With the uaual apologies, I am, &c., T. B. L. Dunedin, November 4.