Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 399, 29 February 1892 — THAT STATE DINNER. [ARTICLE]

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THAT STATE DINNER.

We were highly amuBed with tbe peculiar featuree sat<l to bave occurr€<d on tbe oocasion of ber inost gmcioui Majesty'B State Dinner. on Friday l*st. The whole affair was m suceesB e*oept in ♦he novel innoY*tion made in the introdacUon of one of the proEninent chsracterB of the tim«. There ?eemetl, among the noveltie» of thie cbange a gen eral misapprehen»ion ae to the par ticular U8«« for whieh knivee &nd forks aod apoons are u»ed on Bute oeeaaiona. Tbe tleBcription uiueh reoiinded us of a mtnilar ev-i.t given in hot»or of a So«th M | M .. * tentate, al whieh a favuntc was privi!tged to take . v jli*h and liqui<l relrcsljnie.»t iu w.,s. down ita content \vith. Tb s *v i ov 80 mueh rt»m«rk'jd as n * |0 iN custom amoug eemi -en

Hghtene<l So».uh Bea li]ao(3ers, b\jit . oritisio are reiics of the past and. i» unuaual in civilized <<x*i'*ty. I