ANOTHER VISITOR.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 37, 6 September 1887, Page 2

ANOTHER VISITOR.

The importance of the Colonies to the English mind is becoming daily more evident. A few years back a leading member of the English House of Lords or Commons would have as soon thought of starting for the North Pole as taking a trip to the Antipodes, but times have changed, and we find men of “ light and leading ” combining instruction and pleasure by coming out to study the Greater Britain which has sprung up under the Southern Cross.

The visit of Lord Roseberry, the eminent young Liberal peer, to Melbourne has borne good fruit in the lively interest that gentleman now shows in all questions of colonial interest which are brought before the English House, whilst the recent visit of Lord Aberdeen could not fail to be provocative of much good, We now learn that New Zealand is to be favoured by a visit from Lord Carnarvon. He is a man of considerable intellectual and administrative talents, and, although the primary object of his tour is relaxation from the arduous cares of political life, yet he will, no doubt, devote much of his time to studying our institutions and attempting to solve those problems which are of mutual interest to both the Colonies and the Mother Country.

Lord Caernarvon is a man of about 55 years of age, and lias occupied severaj prominent positions in the political world. From 1857 to 59 he served his official apprenticeship as Under Secretary for the Colonies, becoming full Secretary under Lord Derby in 1866-67 and under Lord Beaconsfield in 1874-78. When the Salisbury Government came into power he was for a few months Viceroy ’of Ireland, but resigned that position through, differences of opinion as to the administration of that country, He is a Conservative, but not a rabid Tory, and has for many years been reputed a calm, quiet reasoning statesman, of no transcendent ability, but possessing great common sense and great moderation of views, Let us hope that his visit to the Colony may give him an extended and valuable knowledge of our wants and requirements, our great natural wealth, and our magnificent scenery, for the favourable opinion of such a man is worth having.