TE AWAMUTU: THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4608, 31 May 1872, Page 3

TE AWAMUTU: THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.

The anniversary of the birthday of our most gracious Majesty passed off with unusual gaiety and splendour at Te Awamutu on Friday last. The first assembly 4 of ttie Cavalry Volunteers took place early in the forenoon of that day, when a number of evolutions were gone through, after 'which the commanding officer, Major Jackson, M.H.R., called on th 6 corps'' lot three jcheers ihhonourof the- day, which jtds. needless to add were given with, right goad' wiiLi By the second assembly of the corps 'a goodly concourse of the settlers, with" their families, had collected on the ground eager to fitness the martial display. The' period from? about, 12 noon to 5 p.m. was deiroted to some.excellent horae-raoingj.whiph^pnsisted of trotting matches, steeplechaaing, and admirable and well-contested flat .racing.- Mr. R. Davidson, th? Bpirited proprietor oi the Te Awamutu Hotel, contributed largely aujtt in | the. < moat handsome *manrieir'"H^ the.; several prizes awarded to the winners. j But,that,whiohprpYed ljhe crowning ■uce&Sf" j-Qt >$tisMy»r* *nd pjlia^d^offwittyhe gtea'tesS I e"clat, w^the ball giyen by me- members of the Te*Aw«W&tu Quadftlle Assembly^ «9Pfif number of " invites" was" " necessariljl very large ; and'^the 'VftlAfte^r HaMiffwJrich it was held), owing 'to'a^pofction oll^ei ig la^ir off as a refectbry, Va^'fiJßed"' to overffowing. The comniittee qitnetv^, £he,.greatestp] aisefor the excellent manner Ud' wSiob. 'they carried' out their laborious arrangements. 1h« decoration',of. lar^ii/^tm.d^^' itself was a work which exhibited mucntaste an 1 grea^ trpubjle, fpr every , part f , of the wtflls was festQo»ed with the ..gfgcefql foliage of the > fern ? tree; and other Ac and indigenoua.,flora.vv'Th'a. .excellent iluoio of two admitabld TioUniBts,CiMessra;iS'oi th and ,Lo?d, { "of S#r Comp^tJ^alsiitftd by our lowlj.Biusiciani,' , pen^n^uwd^ve^y ? ,muoh to the pleasure of the sturdy dancers, and to thef success df the baH.'-^[!oorrespondi int^^

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