Unveiling a Memorial to Captain Stanley.
By Telegraph --Pres3 Association Akaboa This Day. The unveiling by the Government of the obelisk erected on the spot where Qaptaiu Stanley of the Brito . marte hooted fho British flag in tbe South Island thus fo stalling annexation by the French, took placs ye&ter- 1 day. The weather was fine and at* tendance a record for Akaroa, fully 2000 people, including the Premier, being present. Fifty bluejackeis from the Taurangi kept guard. Captain Brown an r l all the officers of that vessel were present. His Excellency, before upveilinsj the memorial contrasted the etate of things 45 years igo with that at presen* existing. He hoped no break would occur during the final years of Her Majesty's reign and the war cloud's which from tia c to tima obscured the horizon m gh? be scattered by diplomacy and all tbe places which fly the British flag might be always ready to confront an attack and recogni c the Let that they were members of one body. Luncheon was subsfqnently held at thd Town Hall. The principal speakers being Hia Exs cellency ihe Premier, tbe Major, Hon W. Montgomery, Bishop Julius, and Captain Brown of tbe Tauranga.
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Inangahua Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1239, 15 June 1898, Page 2
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202Unveiling a Memorial to Captain Stanley. Inangahua Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1239, 15 June 1898, Page 2
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