THE EARL OF GLASGOW.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 71, 28 March 1892, Page 2

THE EARL OF GLASGOW.

. HIS PRELIMINARY TRAINING, i Regarding our new Governor, the Melbourne Standard remarks :--• That is a oheery picture whioh the cable presents. His Lordship the Earl of Glasgow diligently tramping aW u n d Bishopagate Within, and sounding the New Zealand merchants doing business ia the world's metropolis anenfc the politioal cendi. tion aud requirements of hia new realm. A sort of Haroun al Rasohild test* ing tne feelinga of hia people, or perhaps, as a more fitting eioiile in relation to me prosaic characteristics of laHe«-d»j lifa. a kind of gubernatorial commercial traveller, ihero is room for appreheuaion that hia Lordship will derive a sometthat contused idea as to the role whioh ia inoum- : bent upon him aoross the seas. On iha ) question of taxation of abaenteea he may find aufhoieni denunciation of tha policy of ihe Ministry from the Naw Zealand oompaniea trading ia London to Btart hitn in his career aa an opponent of thn Government of tha day. Theru is, however, a touoh of refreshing innocence about the announce* ment and the naive, language in wbioh the Earl s motives and viewa are expressed whioh should disarm hostile oritioiemT The : guneUeanesa of iha sailor id indioated by the vigourouaness of hispteparations to rule conscientiously, vigorously, and, above 411. constitutionally iv a province of which acoording to the Earl of Oaslow, he is but to bcoume tho ornamental figurehead' It would, perhaps, be unkind to antioi- ; p^te collisions with authorities and ) other vexations for thia vigorous ; ruler. Looal firo of oritioism will open oa him presently, whioh may be suffii j went tribulation, The opinion of Hia .Lordship, who has considered' tha point for about two weeks, that Che oolonies should not be permitted to nominate their own Goverdors, will render him still funher a smom grata iv New Zealand. And the , concluding touoh in the little oable t-dk c which the Earl of Glasgow has vouchsafed t to his new peopie is of itself a geni. 3 .mere 13 a oharming, souncon of the t painstaking and persevering tradesman b starting business iv a new locality, about , the announcement that his Lordship . relies upon energy and devotion to coml main success,' which, even if it ia open to 8 the charge of being hackneyed, is nt least , practical. Viewed in this new hght, the - career ol the Jiarl of Glasgow ilt AuW , itu.ia wUI be fraught with great interest."'