NEW ZEALAND’S JUBILEE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 443, 5 February 1890, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND’S JUBILEE.

TfHE WEEK’S PROCEEDINGS. Auckland, January 30. Tbe Jubilee illuminations displayed last night were not on so extensive a scale as might have been wished, many who desired to celebrate the event in this direction having procrastinated till they discovered it was too late. During the evening the town was crowded with spectators, and the greatest interest was displayed in the spectacle. The principal hotels were decorated chiefly with Chinese lanterns, and the Victoria Arcade was similarly illuminated, while at the corner was a transparency representing a beehive, a view of Auckland Harbour, and North Shore, with the legend “Industry and Prosperity, 1890.” The Bank of New Zealand showed three handsome transparencies with Jubilee subjects, and the offices of the Auckland Evening Star, in Shortland - street,, attracted thousands of people by a| profuse display of transparencies, coloured lights, and gas illuminations. The principal transparency was an excellent illustration of Auckland in 1840 as compared with Auckland in 1890, reflecting much credit on the designer. The transparency was by coloured lights, and the whole front of the Short-land-street office was brought into prominence by a highly artistic display of gas jets culminating in the initial letters “ E.S. ” standing out boldly in front of the windows on the second storey. The “ Herald ” office was illuminated with gas jets. The transparencies displayed at Mr T. Harle Giles’s education chambers and Mr White’s tailoring establishment attracted much attention, as did also a fine transparency.exhibited by Messrs Garrett Bros. Messrs Upton and Co. exhibited a transparency with the words “ Auckland Jubilee, Auckland advance, 1890,” and the Union Bank showed a beehive transparency illustrative of industry. The Working Men's Club also had erected a handsome transparency, containing a view of Auckland handsomely illustrated, and gas illuminations were adopted by Hewin Bros., Milne and Choyce, the Thistle Hotel, and elsewhere. Excellent transparencies were also exhibited by the Royal Mail Hotel, and Mr Parkinson, confectioner, Victoria - street, and the residence of Mr Tyndall, Greystreet, was also handsomely decorated with transparencies, Chinese lanterns, etc. At Parnell Mr Raynes’s butcher shop was illuminated with gas jets neatly arranged in a circle, and Mr Davis’s fancy goods shop were covered with coloured lights surrounding a transparenc.y. Tomlinson’s Hotel wasalso decorated. The Jubilee arch at Parnell referred to in a previous issue was erected by private enterprise, led by Messrs George Raynes and W. Lyell. The suburbs of Ponsonby, Newton, and Newmarket also honouied the occasion by tbe display of decorations and illuminations, so that on the whole this feature of the Jubilee rejoicing appears to have received considerable attention.