AN ELECTIVE GOVERNOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9493, 24 April 1894, Page 3

AN ELECTIVE GOVERNOR.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,lt is strange that when a man occupies a high position, his words and actions have greater influence. We have recent proof of this by the late cablegrams from England. I refer to a speech made by Sir Thomas Mcllwraith, Premier of Queensland, at a banquet given to him in Loudon, where he seems to have convinced the British public that the Australian colonies are not able to elect a good Governor. He might just as well have said that the few men who compose Her Majesty's Ministry have more brains and thinking power than 700,000 loyal and intelligent thinking people who inhabit New Zealand. Such an assertion is not only an insult, but an outrage on our civilisation. Though the masses are reckoned an ordinary, or common lot, I hold that God has implanted in their breasts as true a conception of that which is right and just, yea, even as the Earl of Glasgow. Our Government appoint our own judges, who act justly in law and equity; how much more ought a man to act with impartiality and prove himself worthy of the high position, that is elected by the will of the people.—l am, etc., J. A. Campbell. Jervois Road, Ponsonby.