PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4828, 18 September 1894, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

:'',.-: ANNIVERSARY DAt;> f< V '-"'§C^i| ■ The Joint Committee appointed toSfps|||] consider 'the proper-date-■fop''''th6jf^^BJ colony's anniversary,' jondrts ihat|;MjßJ Captain Wm. HobsonSeutenant-:MjH Governor, arrived jit®; Bay of^flßß Islands on the 29th Januaiy, IB4o,iil|jlß and" on/the following diy,'at Koro-^lwß rareka, read her MajeßtyVJiommia'-l&vW sidn : extending 1 the of li^JH New' South' Wales soastoinuludfli^^B New Zealand, to'apublipmeetingof:!^™! i residents, Havingulso read his com- 'l|l§|l ; mission asLieut-Generalheproolaim- '/'^e| [ cd that he had that day entered upon v i;f§l i his duties, The flag was then saluted I'-$m : by H.K.S. .'Herald, and the offioial jMtfffi, formality of the foundation of the"-;.S^^ i Colony; was firat^Mp i official celebration of this event took'? ji|S i place' at Auckland on the 29th,-;scM^ , January, 1842/ In the Gazette of-S:?Jp i 27th January, 1842,;it.was'declared'::|ifffl ; that Saturday,V the 29fch, was prof claimed a public holiday, bat ci&.the <; ; ff§| i anniversary would fall on a Sun- : >':fff| . day the. Committee?considers:this;:v;^||a [ was thecause-of thechange of date. ..:\^H ,' In the New ZeaiaW Herald,'^th^"'iPtl| i, January, 1842, thereto an adverffe* ''■, vf|| I nientofaregattatobeheldonthe29th ;^: ;V|

"in honour of His Excellency's ar- I rival in the Colony,"; No further ' official notification appeared in the Gazette till 1847, when the 29th was announced as a general holiday as" - the 7th anniversary of the Colony. The date of the first notification was thus copied apparently' without proper consideration, and the orror . remains unrectified. Tho is therefore of opinion that the anni- . versary of the foundation of the Colony should be celebrated as a general holiday on the 30th January, instead of the 29th, as at present, so that it may bo in accord with the ! historical fact.— Pest,