THE Waihi Daily Telegraph. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED The Waihi Miner TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1905

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1487, 21 November 1905, Page 2

THE Waihi Daily Telegraph. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED The Waihi Miner

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1905

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LbRp;OURZpN, whose farewell ad-l Hrepiovlndia • was.published on 3Ma ircjay. ■ wil 1' sh or tiy ,be! a he- r a^|Yioen)y, by libriJ to ttiejhigb ■JmbW^l'l ß predecessor iras - when

e went to India.' Ho will probably e known qb the Sportsman Viceroy, a according to Home papers he ha?, ... idden five times in the Grand rational, has won the principal ■renoh steeplechase in -Paris, has . hot .game of every , desoriptioni . rom an elephant to a partridge, and 1 las a great record as a salmon fisher, ut lis experience of war .was gained in 8 Afghanistan in 1879, in Egypt- in * IBS2, in Canada in 1885, and as an ittache in the Russian-Turkish war. j, During his Governor-Generalship of I Janada he showed himself to be a c man of Bound- coramonsenße, ,and n won great popularity;—but, of couiae, ® Canada is far from being India, and ( a Toronto paper has gone so far as to t saythat the office could be filled by J any; intelligent schoolboy, ," He is < likely to be a much more popular j personality, in India than Lord : Ohr&on'," says' one paper, "but he i will never aspire to Lord Curzon's 1 statesmanship." Lord Minto has i been described as the antithesis of Lord Onrzon. While the outgoing ■ •Viceroy is 1 said to be never so happy as when he has a pen in his hand } , and is engaged in work of the bureaucratic kind, or is taking par l iu. pageants and ceremonies which appeal to his imagination and dignity,' Lord .Minto,' from the information obtainable, may be described as an 'English gentleman of the simplest type, t() whom an outdoor lifo is not only the enjoyment, by the necessity of existence. He ! is. essentially, one of tbo3e officials in I whom the public repose considerable"' confidence, simply because by his position in life he is wholly independent of office, and to whom, indeed'the tenure of officfe involves a certain amount of personal and i pecuniary sacrifice. It is one of the I greatest asßeta 'pf ■,the public life of J Britain that it is without many such men. His appointment, it is said; will be very acceptable to military men in India;', for Lord Ourzon . was inever popular with 1 the service.- ; ' i- :