The Advocate. [Established 1888.] [PUBLISHED DAILY.] OLDEST ESTABLISHED PAPER AND GUARANTEED LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE DISTRICT. MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1910. THE NEW GOVERNOR.

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The Advocate. [Established 1888.] [PUBLISHED DAILY.] OLDEST ESTABLISHED PAPER AND GUARANTEED LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE DISTRICT.

MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1910. THE NEW GOVERNOR.

Lord Islington, the new representative of the King in Nev> r Zealand, will arrive in the Dominion on Wednesday, and will at once assume the duties of his ofnce.The Governor-elect will doubtless receive a warm welcome, as the colonists are always pleased to take full advantage of the opportunity thus presented of honoring the King. Lord. Islington is likely to give every satisfaction in his vice-regal position. The people by this time are fairly well acquainted with the fact that these gubernatorial positions are the gifts of the party for- the time being in power, and they are distributed according to party necessities. Sometimes they are conferred as a reward for party services; they are' also given to ambitious men, who have friends at Court; and sometimes they are offered to men of the aristocracy whose fortunes have fallen upon evil daj's, and who are desirous of spending a term of comparative retirement in one of the overseas dominions. In this way several "amiable nonentities" have been despatched from London for service in the colonies, and the traditions of the Party instinct have therein been justified. It is not the case that an able, brainy man is sought for, and receives the position as a compliment to his ability and fitness for the office, and until this principle is .'.admitted in the selection of Governors, the colonists must simply accept' the representative of the King as the nominee of the party in power. Lord Islington will no doubt bo as successful as his predecessors. He is a rich man, having a landed estate of nearly 10,000 acres, and therefore may be expected to hold very pronounced views on the land question. He is credited with taking a particular interest in ali agricultural affairs, and is considered to be a very popular man. He brings to the Dominion a particularly new peerage—absolutely the very latest brand. When appointed Govern- J or of .New Zealand, Lord Islington was only a plain Knight, but to give him the necessary status in his ikjav position, he was raised to the peerage. In the course of one of his farewell addresses. Lord Islington remarked : ' 'The future greatness of England would be wrapped up in the greatness and solidarity of the British .Empire. Those great boundless Dominions, Av.ith their vigorous people and free systems of government, must increasingly support and strengthen the Mother Country. The great strength of the Empire was the relationship of those in England with the men who were working in the far-off Dominions." The Governorelect also remarked: "I hox>e also to take my share in ail active way in the greater work of doing what is possible to strengthen those ties which bind that distant Dominion to the Mother Country. The country I am going to has ventured upon maiy political projects, and I shall have the advantage of observing and watching those projects in active operation." It is just here that we

feel pFßTduty to draw attention to a striking peculiarity about the choice of Lord Islington for tho Governorship of JNew Zealand. Governors are not supposed to liave any opinions upon the political questions of the' day, but it is notorious that Lord Islington was a strong opponent of the Tariff .Reform party, and that he comes to us as the accredited representative of the Ministry that claimed to have banged the door in the faces of the colonial delegates who asked for colonial preference. Viewed in this light, the appointment of Lord Islington is not without a special significance. We can only hope that his practical experience as Governor .of Mew Zealand will cause him to modify his views, and to incline to the opinion that in assisting to strengthen the ties between the Mother Country and her overseas dominions, the demand for preference over the foreigner must play an important part. The imports of foreign manufactured goods into Britain for the six months ended June, 1909, amounted to £71,820,144, and the unemployed British trade unionists at June 30, 1909, was 79 in every 1000, and this fact in his study of this interesting problem is calculated to assist Lord' Islington in coming to a conclusion on the subject.

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