The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, JAN. 20, 1883. OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 62, 20 January 1883, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, JAN. 20, 1883. OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

The appointment ot Sir William Mervois as Governor of New Zea'and is hailed on every hand with expressions of the liveliest satisfaction. The contrast between Sir W Jekvois and Sir Arthur Gohdow is of a most, marked description. The first, a soldier and a gentleman, frank, talented, a thorouph man of the world, and consequently unlikely to attempt to foist any particular fad of his own- on the people whom he is called upon for a time to govern. r I he other a gentleman of high birth, reticent, of doubtful ability, and one who at no period of his lif'3 even pretended to mix on equal terms with his fellows, l>v contact with whom a few of the remarkable angularities of his -character would have been rubbed off. He "vvsis appointed when only 31 years of age to the governorship of New Brunswick, and so he early learned to be of the opinion that he was "not as other men are," and he has never yet changed the views then formed. We now turn to the m >re pleasant subject of fcir William Jervois, who has made himself so popular in his short residence of eighteen months in South Australia as Governor. We learn from our cable mes^agr s that his popula:ity was not confined to South Australia, for Victoria, strenuously endeavoured to have him appointed as successor to Lord Normanby, in Melbourne. r J his appears to have been contrary to the rules of the Colonial Office, and New Zealand is fortunate in being preferred at present, and there can be little doubt that Sir William will ultimately succeed to the governorship of Victoria, which is the most esteemed of all Colonial appointments. It is a matter for congratulation that we have received so popular a governor, and his splendid talents as a military engineer will be beneficially exercised in considering the best available means for the harbor defences of the colony. That the change from South Australia to New Zealand will be a pleasant one for Sir William we have no doubt, and the contrast presented by the fertility of this country, as compared with South Australia, must strike him as remark able. Having left a country where five bushels to the acre is the average, he will, if he visits the various grain producing parts of the Colony soon after his arrival, have I. is eyes gladdened by the sight of I.juJ avera^in^ thirty bushels to the acre. ll is views on the su l. jects of public works and immigration are very favorable to them, and when he observes the benefits this Colony has derived from them they will be sti ; l further con armed. His reception, on his landing in Wellington, this afternoon, was warm and hearty, all the Friendly and Benefit Societies, Fire Brigades and Volunteers having made extensive preparations to receive him with all due honor. Two triumphal arches have been erected, the usual loyal addresses were presented, and the people of Wellington showed that their feelings (f loj-alty to the -Crown have not been diminished by the want of tact of Sir Arthur Gokdun.