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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7975, 15 June 1887, Page 4

A correspondent who signs himself " Saxon" writes in a rather indignant mood about no positive announcement or recommendation having been made as to the holidays, and 110 agreement having been come to by the business people. He thinks if they can close for a big cricket match, or some similar event, surely they can make an effort, and close for three days upon such an event as the fiftieth anniversary of our Sovereign. Ha hopes that the report of only one day's holiday is incorrect, and that we are really to have three after all. For our own part we do not see the need of making three days' holiday, and entirely suspending business during that time. We can express all our loyalty in one day. However, it will be seen by a paragraph in another part of this issue that soma of our merchants met yesterday in the Chamber of Commerce, and resolved to close their places of business on Monday and Tuesday for special Jubilee holidays. It will also be seen from our advertising - columns that the Banks have agreed to regard Monday and Tuesday as holidays in honour of the occasion. Surely this ought to please "Saxon." The season is not a very good one for holidays here. It will be impossible to go into the country with any pleasure, and it will be no great expression of loyalty to go moping about the wet and muddy streets, looking at closed shops. We should have thought that one day's complete holiday would have been sufficient, and that on the evenings of the two other days there might have been at any public gathering some expression of loyalty, as by the singing or playing of the National Anthem.