The Evening Star MONDAY, MAY 24, 1875.
Perhaps no holiday in the year is kept with a more hearty good will by the citizens of Dunedin than is the Queen’s Birthday. It is, of course, sufficiently understood that the Dunedinites are always perfectly ready to take a holiday for any conceivable reason, or for none. Our great material prosperity, and the high rates of wages ruling in the Province render it unnecessary for us to ke'ep our “noses ever close to the grindstone,” as the bulk of the inhabitants of older, and less favored, countries have to do. But of all the numerous general holidays kept by us, the Queen’s Birthday is the most observed. The feeling of loyalty to the English throne hja r undoubtedly a large share in bringing this about, but it can hardly be denied that personal respect for a lady who has so long and so satisfactorily filled the important post of outward and visible head of the great British Empire is the main cause of the special observance paid to this day. We, in common, we are sure, with all our readers, most heartily wish Her Majesty “ many happy returns ef the day.”
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Evening Star, Issue 3821, 24 May 1875, Page 2
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