The family are reinstated in Government House, happy in being once more able to extend their far-famed hospitality as on former occasions.
Nothing was wanting to make the present reception one of the most gorgeous in the social records of provincial life.

Every window in the entire building was brilliantly illuminated in the most beautiful colors of every hue and in a charming variety of scenes.

There were represented the western heavens at sunset in crimson and gold; the rising glories of the approaching monarch shown on the eastern hill tops; scenes of classical beauty shone in bewitching effect.

Any attempt to particularize fails in the very effort.

Suffice to say Government House blazed, not in the spontaneous spirit which displayed itself when the former building succumbed, but by the heightening aid of artistic skill and design.