OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 1191, 26 September 1874, Page 22

OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

The following letter with reference to the Marquis of Normanby, who is to be our new Governor, is from our Queensland correspondent. We have received the papers he refers to — with reference to the dead-lock of 1872— hut they are too voluminous for publication. And so New Zealand is to rob us of the Marquia of Norniauby— one of the most able Governors that Australasia has ever known. Well, I heartily congratulate you ; as it is not often that an Australian Colony has the luck to get a Governor who was four years in his " last place," and leaves " universally regretted." Since, however, the time at which the arrangement must have been made with Downing street, Queensland is worth a thousand a year more than it was ; and, although I do not remember exactly what you pay your Governor, I don't think it is £5000 a year. But if it is rot, you can very safely give it to the new incumbent, for he is worth it — every sixpence. It is quite possible that the experiences of New Zealand politicians of the value of the imported article from Queensland may not predispose them to receive Lord Normanby cordially ; but I > think they may do so, without fear of having to draw back afterwards. The worst that I ever heard said of him, or of the Marchioness — a kind-hearted and excellent woman, too —come from matchmaking mothers, who complained that the opportunities of trotting out their fillies in the matrimonial market (of which Government House was always regarded as the great emporium) were not sufficient. Let me assure you that the fathers of the Baid daughters have their own private opinions upon that point ; and when the right man comes, a 9 in the natural course of events he will, without being hunted for, the demoiselles may find it not altogether to their disadvantage that papa's pocket was not so ruthlessly robbed for balls and concerts under the rdgime of Lord and Lady Normanby as during the time of our first Governor, Sir George Bowen, who, with the best intentions in the world, helped to their ruin many weak-minded people, to whom frequent baakinga in the sunshine of the vice reg&l lodge were supreme felicity. I would give you my reasons for considering Lord Normanby what I have described him — one of the most able Governors that Australasia has ever known j but I may be supposed — wrongly enough, goodness knows — to have party or local prejudices arising out of political events. I therefore send you the papers giving the history of how the celebrated twelve memberß of the Opposition, who caused the deadlock of 1872, approached the Governor with their grievances, and what he said to them ; and I leave you to judge for yourself. Although, at the time, the matter attracted no little attention outside Queensland, it is hardly likely that you printed in extenso the papers on the subject ; but as this man is now coming to rvile over ) ou, no better idea of the stuff of Which he is made could be imparted to the Colo* nists of New Zealand, than by giving them the whole story. I have only to add that no ope has " tried it on " with Lord Normanby since.

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