NOTES AND COMMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13491, 18 May 1907, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THEJNEW GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA, Mr. ' Sydn-ky Olivier, C.M.G., who was ,* - cenlly appointed Governor of Jamaica, in i j succession to . Sir J. A. Swett«nh«in, L | K.C.M.G., who has resigned on the ground, i of s age, is the second .son of tho Rev. H A.,Olivier, of Winchficld, Hants, and vu' I born in, 1859, t , >ffo-WM wlucatotf.ai Koi- i\. bridge School, and Corpus Christi College, J Oxford, where he gained an open cxhibi. . , iion. ■ He took a second class in classics! in 1878, and a second class in , the final classical school in 1881, and wis .appointed to a clerkship in the Colonial , , Office*on April 17. 1882. From October,'' j 1890, to April, 1891, he was Acting-Colonh! Secretary for British Honduras, and some | years later, • namely, from October, 1895, ' to -February, 1896, Acting-Auditor-Geners: of the Leeward Islands. In September, 1896, he was appointed private secretary • to Lord Selborne, who at th« time xeif ) Under-Secretary for the Colonies, and in/' . December of the same year he was chosen '• to act as secretary of the Royal Commis- - sion, then (appointed to inquire into the' '•" : condition of the West Indies. Mr. Olivier; became a first-class clerk in the Colonial : Office .in June, 1897, and was send to j Washington in the following year on fpcciaJ service in connection with the West Indian , :■ [ reciprocity . negotiations. From 1900 to V 19,04 lie whs Colonial Secretary at Jamaica, and was Acting-Governor there in 1900, in-',' ■ 1902, and again in 1904, in October of which year he returned to the Colonial' • Office as principal clerk. THE UNREST IN EGYPT. ' ,_ 'The leading Service papers—the ■ Broju! '. Arrow and the Army . and Navy Gazette— deal with the unrest in Egypt. Says the Broad Arrow:generation has grown up which knows not Joseph. That is ih* explanation of Egyptian unrest, which tie- ' cadent Englishmen and native politicians turn to their own purpose. ■■ The populace has forgotten the lawlessness and grinding. '■ oppression from which they were rescued by the British, and cry for sclf-governmeflt because Lord Cromer lias left them no real grievances. It is just possible that the' are puppets in the hands of clever .intriguers, whose incapacity for rule is a* \ marked to-day as' it was when their country ,' j was oh the verge of bankruptcy twenty odd 1 yeaif ago. But the danger is none the lew. J "eal on that account. . . . There - ; i* -- 1 ' I not the least doubt that the Khedive must I be put in his place; the treason of renegade I Englishmen silenced; and vigorous Jilpa--, j huvea taken to check the National Congress- j Otherwise a situation will be created.which .. J may end in a British Protectorate. . . >' | '"We must be ready," says the Army an*) « ' I Navy Gazette, "both to display and to | exert force, if force is required. What may | be the cause of the hew movement in Egypt we do not accurately know, but it msyb* [ surmised that the defeat of the Russians by \ i a Power which was neither Europe»«*£W r , Christian may have suggested dimly to toe ! Mussulman population that Europeans awl Christians are not invincible. There are thus possible dangers ahead which the counI try and the army should certainly be preI pared to meet, and to meet with rapidity 1 j and. decision which should give the assis- 1 tance of success." " - {• r|