Happy Proclamation Day

[WVBill]

To Vin and Neil and anyone else from "down under".

...er - what's "Proclamation Day" all about? My calendar just says "Proclamation Day (Australia - SA)".

By the way, happy Boxing Day also to those of you in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK.

 

[Mike_Dumond]

We then held a Council in my tent, for the purpose of agreeing upon a Proclamation requiring all to obey the laws, and declaring the Aborigines to have equal rights, and an equal claim upon the protection of the Government with the white colonists. The Commission was then read in public, a "Feu-de-joie" was fired by the marines, the white ensign hoisted, and a salute fired by the ships.

The Proclamation having been read, the meeting adjourned to Mr. Kingston's tent, where a cold dinner was provided for such as chose to partake of it, and the festivities were kept up to quite a late hour.
(Gouger's Diary December 28th, 1836)