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Otago Daily Times, Issue 4029, 16 January 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)

A London paper remarks:—" We can is3gipe $he delight with whfch a Eepya of the nineteenth century pnt»V i]} niS diary the fact that the Que.en has a$ last danced. Loyal subjects will not thprefore laugh when they hear that, after thirteen years of melancholy widowhood, her Majesty has opened the ball at Balmoral Oastle, not with a grave lord keeper, but with one who has advanced to be an escjuire in attendance •--one of her gillies—whose name is wellknown for his faithful adherence. That which is done in the North may as well be done in the South ; and, perhaps, after a rehearsal at Windsor in the great hall, and, amongst her lqya} nobjes, we may hope to pee spoke ascending from the chimneys at "Buckingham jfalace, and tieVr of a'su'ccegsion'of 'ba|ls in that hitherto dpsertefj. an[3|. dreary b,uildi£g. T}ie übiquitous eye of the Presg, represented by the immortal Jeames, who js ne.ver absent from a Court gathering, has watched ovei; Balmoral j and thp fapf that fche Qupen has dapced is now known over Europe, jt doea not matter, now the magic observance is broken, how soon it is broken again : and if courts and palaces are any use at all, the sooner the Queen dances amongst her loyal courtiers—as well as amidst her gillies, aer. vants, and tenants—the better."