ILLUMINATION OF THE TOWN AND SUBURBS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 208, 25 June 1887, Page 5

ILLUMINATION OF THE TOWN AND SUBURBS.

June 22. The citizen^ of Auckland displayed their loyalty and patriotism in honour of Her Majc.-ty Queea Victoria's Jubilee in a most gratifying ami enthusiastic manner. The weather,unfoitunate.Jy,was not all that could have been desired, and during the day the amusements that many people had planned -were somewhat rudely interfered with by frequent showeiv gl rain. A large number p" •. t oni^ed the football match at Potter's l'ad'lock, and othen ventured on a trip to Xoith Shore or J^orthcote, and generally speaking it may be «aid tha£ the .citizens nude the best mil. of unfavourable circumstance*, and bottled vp their enthusiasm {or the evening. Even early as (5 o'clock the town began to fill, and as the rockets began to ascend and th* lllumina tioua weie m full swing, a conatao-t stream of people continued to pour in horn all quarttiy, iiom north, «outh, ea-t, and west, &»d befoie 8 p. m. tlicx nw^ have been msjny thun-uiuK -.caflieiod in the prin cipal thoi'oughfare^ Tlio .seeuc was a bril lant and impo-^ipy one. The illuminations were on a mvlo fir burjtas^ing anything of the kind ewv attempted in Auckland before, and the .1 übilee rejoicings, w eie enteied into with a heani'K't- which mu 4 be regarded wirb feelings of the highe-fc satis faction by all true subjects of our most gracious fov_veign, Queen Victoii.?.

The Koyal Salute. At 11 a.m. the A Battery of Artillery under Captain Payne, assembled in the Albert Pad', u hero the ikg->t'jti' was handsomely decuiatecl vnth bunting, and iired the Royal =>-\!ute of 21