A Taranaki View of Anniversary Days.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 19, 24 January 1887, Page 2

A Taranaki View of Anniversary Days.

[Bt Teleoeaph.] (Our Own Correspondent.) Nkw Plymouth, This Day. The Herald, referring to the Wellington Anniversary says:— "The holiday held on Saturday thronghout the Wellington district shows how hard it is to abolish any kind of institution whioh the people have become accustomed to. It is now 10 years since the provinces of New Zealand were abolished, when the imperium in imperio then existing nndor the Constitution Act ceased. During those 10 years -nearly every vestige of the provinces has been 6wept away. Superintendents, Provincial Councils, their Speakers, their Sergeant ß-at- Arms, and all paraphernalia of those Parliaments are things of the past, and are almost forgotten by the present generation. There is one thing, however, which the Act of Parliament has failed in destroying, and that is the celebration by holiday of the anniversary of the settlement of eaoh provinoial distrust." After some farther remarks on how each part of the colony was settled, the paper goes on to say—" So long as the colony exists the founding of these various districts should not be forgotten, by the numerous descendants of the pioneers or by the colonist generally. The day is past and gone for calling together the early bands who left the shores of the old country in search of a new one ; the dates, however, of their arrivals remain, and it rests with the colonists in the various districts to keep up those anniversaries in the customary manner by a holiday, as it helps to fora a connecting link with the past."