THE MAORI MESSENGER. Auckland, May 6, 1852.
The approaching anniversary of the Birth-day of the Queen is already causing the customary preparations for celebrating that auspicious event with all due honour. The usual salute from the batteries will be fired ; the usual review of ilia soldiers take place; and His Excellency the Lieut.Goverr.or, will receive llio usual visits of congratulation Irom the inhabitants of the colony. Preparations, we perceive, are, likewise, afoot to provide a substantial dinner for four hundred of our unlive friends. This dinner, we understand, will, ns usual, take place at Mr. Robertson's RopeWalk, Mechanics' Bay, on Monday, th, ; 2Jth inst.. immediately after the Governor's levee, —that is to say at 2 o'clock. AVe trust the day may prove line, ami that the numerous invited guests tntiy come prepared to enjoy themselves, and to unite with us in joyful celebration of our national festival. Last year, many of the more considerate'of our iiati'-o brethren felt much hurt at the discreditable manner in which many of their own countrymen came c'ail to this festival. Let ns hope that this year those who come to the Governor's dinner, will come clothed 'n iheir best apparel. The Queen's Bivlh-day is n liolvday to her European subjects, and we trust it will ever ho found to be so to her native subjects. Englishmen invariably don tin ir holy.lay attire in honour of their Queen; therefore as our native friends have not scrupled toimita'e EnglNi customs in other matters, we hope they will not fail to follow them on so praiseworthy an occasion as tin's. They may rest assured, that by so doing they will confer much more honour upon the native character of New Zealand llian upon the Queen of England.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 4, Issue 88, 6 May 1852, Page 3
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290THE MAORI MESSENGER. Auckland, May 6, 1852. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 4, Issue 88, 6 May 1852, Page 3
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