OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1076, 8 December 1882, Page 3

OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

In writing nf the rumour of Sir William JervoL’s promotion from A lelaido, the loading piper in S.>u hj Ans'nilii.th : ‘South Australian Register,’ says in a leading article : “ The manner m who hj Sir Willi ‘in Jetvois has not on'y manifested an intere*t in colonial matte s, hj it in which he has also thoroughly identified hj mae f with them, has aided l«nh with popularity ami his usefulness He ha< not been content to he a merely idle official spectator of what was gong oil, but he his always h-en ready to use his varied a ores of experience tor the general welfare. Occas onallv, perhaps, His Excellency’s utterances have aroused a measure of resentment in the molds of a few it is only fair lossy that'his has arisen chii lly from the soundness and accuracy of his crHcisins, Remembering that the profession of which His Excellency is a mem her calls tor action more than for wo da rente niiering, too, how galling it is for an intel igent observer of passing events to feel that he is restrain d hy his official iioriti m from exp earing his opinions ton freely—it it greatly to the credit • f Sir William Jervois that he has for the most part succeeded in keening the happy mean. In his official and Social leiations tlieG-'V rnor has always been ra : nd{nl of the r- sponsihiliti-s of his position, and it is much to be regretted that the exigencies of the service wi 1 shortly ne oessiiate his removal from a position which he has tilled with credit to himself nd with manifest advantage to the Colony.”