THE GOVERNOR AT LAWRENCE

Evening Star, Issue 3403, 17 January 1874, Page 3

THE GOVERNOR AT LAWRENCE

1 His Excellency s entry into Lawrence vr&s a very tame affair. The Mayor and Town (council met him a few miles out of town, and in two buggies, preceded him. A few enquiring faces presented themselves along the line of road, but a Union Jack on a long pole, fixed to a fence, was the only thing by which the casual observer was reminded that a live Governor: was about to pass that way. . During the progress of the E recession, his Excellency only uncovered is head, on onej occasion, and that was on observing a little j. irl, near the hospital, waving her .handkerchief, which she had yied to a stick. The entry into the town was vcy tame—people appeared mostly to be attending to their own business and looking in a contrary direction. In Peel street things were a little different. There was-a , considerable gathering of sigbt-'seers, and Some cheering. , Piloted by Mr J. C. Brown, M.H.R., bis Excellency on' Monday evening, visited the Athenaeum, Gaol, and Hospital, and next morning saw the 1 gold workmgs at Gabriel’s Gully and Blue Spur, dining" with • the Lawrence Town Council pn the afternoon of Tuesday. The Mayor was at pains to assure him that Lawrence would have'given him a much more demonstrative reception but for his expressed wish . to;the contrary* and in replying his Secre-tary-explained that ‘>he was aware that public demonstrations of the kind referred to by the Mayor always entailed an outlay by people [in some cases of 'from one. to three guineas, and<these sums were often expended by those who could ill afford to do so. He looked upon these demonstrations, therefore, as an unnecessary tax upon the people, and as a rule discouraged them where he could. He thought his ideas oh these matters would soon be understood over the conntry.” After lunch, the viceregal party proceeded on their up-country tour, Messrs Cargill and Anderson’s station being the terminus of their day’s journey. On their way, his Excellency was presented with an address at the Chinese Camp, His Excellency, in reply, complimented the Chinese on their orderly conduct, and trusted the same good feeling would long continue to exist between the two races. The Mayor and Councillors accompanied his Excellency in buggies as far as,. Evans’ Elat, when another good-bye brought ,tp a close the Governor’s visit to Tuapeka.