ANNIVERSARY DAY.
Sin,—Will you allow me to ask, through the medium of your wldaly-clrculated journal, how It was that the man-of-war in the harbor was not decorated to seme extent with flags on Anniversary Day? On her Maiesty's Birthday and Coronation Day men-of-war are decked with gay colors from stem to stern, and all subjects of her Majesty Join in the demonstration of which that " dressing" forms a part. This is as it should bo. But are the people of New Zealand to believe that there is so little sympathy between her Majesty and her colonial subjects that on a day when they celebrate the (to them as a people) chief event in their history, her representative—for the captain of a man-of-war is such—is" authorised in making himself conspicuous by abstaining from any expression of sympathy with them in that celebration ? I take it for granted that Wellington in this matter lias been treated as other colonial places would be. If the enstom of the Navy does authorise the captain in the course he took, I at least would wish for an alteration, and with that I beg to subscribe myself A COLOHJST. Wellington, January 22.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4320, 25 January 1875, Page 3
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196ANNIVERSARY DAY. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4320, 25 January 1875, Page 3
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