THE GOVERNOR SHAKES HANDS WITH MR J. LGILLIES!

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 38, 17 January 1874, Page 7

THE GOVERNOR SHAKES HANDS WITH MR J. LGILLIES!

<r«l is the n.-vs that comes frorr Tukomairiro, and, «■ beueve, out 0 Wliable column, of the ' iiruce Herald.' .An able a, d amus.ng l\ a .,lph in the ■ Gu.udi.ni ' fou i-led on an incident of the all-aboib-nt' top aoflhe Governors visit to Tokomairiro, show, tho cleverness ofihe children attendi ,g the Tokouiau-iro Grammar school in general, and of Sir Gillies in p irtieular. ° nc\ or Child, on.- L'he youthful journalist in our employ, who made that discovery iho other duv about a duet uhijed somewhere o r an ah tv one girl =ent vi uot.ee of resignation ycte-da,. In doiu« «o1 c i,d '• i should like to leave you for a «lnle, and go to schoo at Tokonm i.iro lv reading Nour exchanges this morning. 1 find that 'Vhoo c uidren at Tokonmuiro pre-ented Sir James F.rgu^on «u.i a ioSaiire.', in which they said, • We have also read, and heard our fa tors ik of your o«n Virtues, and of your manly aud outspokn, c me, tin your public speeches and notion,, which form a ma, hd co mm, "to the general tone of society in these colonies. 1 I^! f1 , 1 m dm es en the O uardiau will never teach me to write 3 o beautifully n 'tti t and w»U keep me in that tone of society which these cl-ver nd • n "o much do piw. Tho want of candour which calls my writ1 < rot 'and imselt a ' slab-head ' in this office, lam sure I shall ol find in the manly outspoken society of Tokomainro. But this »ji "condary coVidemlou: Ly first desire is to get to wnto like th 6

child who wrote that address, and I think I know how to do it. I notice that, after the address business was over, Sir James Fergusson shook hands with Mr J. L. Gillies, and the Mayor and Town Councillors of Tolomairiro. Well now, Sam Slick told the Duke of Wellington to sleep with his son, yonng Sam, and so learn to say smart things. Something in that line in my not : on. 1 will go to Tokomairiro, if you please, and shake hands with Mr J. L. Gillies, &c, and then perhaps I may be able to write like that school school child." " His Excellency's visit, it is to be hoped, ■.will have an elevating effect on the general tone of society at Tokomairiro.