VALEDICTORY.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 67, 9 June 1877, Page 2

VALEDICTORY.

Otf Wednesday evening a very pleasant entertainment took place at the. Clarendon Hotel. occasion of it was the departure of Mr Rawson i rom Palmer-* . ston* where he has been located for the last eighteen months/ Mr Owen; at Ttrhpee hotel Mr v Kawson has been stay--ing, took the of testifying his^esteem, for the , departing gentleman, by treating him to a valedictory banquet' " and inyited about: & score of friends to assist m, doing honor '^th^ guest of the evening. As J^'OWettWds both-donor and caterer,; tlie table was of course pro j ; vided;in- the : most supaptuous manner.Mr .-.: Snelson occupiejd the chair, aijd when the eatables, were cleared away gave the signal for the first attack upon the champagne by proposing the health of the- QueenJ . He then proposed the toast of the eveningj " Out Gruest/' and spoke feelingly of the loss the Palmerston people would experience m the departure of that gentlein^^rom amongst them; Mr Rawson m responding spoke of his departure regretfnllyy ; as it implied a separation from ;= good earnest friends and familiar scenes. Hd . <. proposed "Prpsperity to Palmerstbn.' Thus was the ballset m motion, nor did^ it stop until Qvery local interest, not ex-» /:_■ cepting that of the "Ladies and Bache- '% lors," had received i^s libation. Music | aiid' song were then introduced, Mf ; G[ilbert doing duty at the piano, and the ~\ hilarity, was kept up until the second of the small hours had been reached, when the company; separated with a general expression of good wishes for Mr Eawson m his new sphere of action/ .