The Holiday.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 409, 28 January 1890, Page 2

The Holiday.

Ito the xditob,] Sih, —In reference to a letter published by His Worship the Mayor I feel impelled to express my dissent, though I feel that it is a subject upon which it is unfortunate there should be any disagreement. It is, however, best to give expression to one’s views. I entirely endorse His Worship’s remarks in commendation of the late Rev. J. McAra, but I do not see how that affects the case, nor do I think that the deceased gentleman’s best friends, nor the lamenting widow, would approve of the proposal: if the reasoning is good, the Harbor Board or Council should not meet on Tuesday night. The Anglican Churoh officers are at liberty to make what choice they please about holding or postponing the garden fete, but the fact of its being held a week later will not win back one whom I rejoiced in the pleasure of estee-ring a friend, God's will be done, and I think the solemn lesson conveyed.by Mr McAra’s death should touch us more deeply than as a mere passing shock. lam conscious that the subject is a delicate one, and that the Mayor has acted in a manner which to him appears fitting to the occasion, but I respectfully submit that the position is a wrong one. If ordinary business proceeds in full swing on Wednesday will that be any more reverential to the memory of the dead ? Now, as to the half holiday at first deol ired I may speak a little more plainly. The Borough Council has virtually been guilty of an act of rebellion in declaring a half holiday in defiance of the proclamation of Her Majesty the Queen that the Jubilee of the colony is to be observed as a general holiday. Ordinary business people can please themselves—they sometimes close for paltry races—but public officials ought to be loyal. The Council should either have remained silent or acted in harmony with the Crown.—l remain, sir, a member of«“ Chumvm ano Star a.