A Striking Anomaly

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 May 1910, Page 3

A Striking Anomaly

TIIK CRUATIOX OF PEERS. Private information enabled me, .viy,s Sir Henry Lucy in the Sydney ..i'oniiiig Herald, when writing on .'.i)tli DecwiuLw, to announce that .lr Lk'ibe-i't would rei.'ivo n peerage be.furo leaving to undertake, tho government of South . I'rioii. L remarked that such an .rent wa.s ''contrary to tho traditii.s of tho family as established h$ , s great founder. Twico Queen \ ictoriii pressed an earldom upon I , .i> acceptance, of Mr Gladstone, ; id twice he begged to bo excused ; •ceptance of tho honour." I im- . .'i-stiiiKl that a consideration has v. eighed with tho new GovernorCenenal in tho mater was one that ; tlueiiced Mr Arthur Peel when : :i qmiting the Chair of the House i i : Commons he accepted the usual j\ 'scounty. "Whilst in both cases \Ae illustrious head of the family I us not only declined a peerage- for 1 imself, but wa.s believed to have ,:< pressed a wish that his heir . YHild not mergo the family mime i i a title, in both cases the coronet was worn by a. junior son. There i. ito-day a Mr Gladstone, of Har- \. arden ' Castle, representative of !.':■;> elder Ibrandh,, ns there iils fl. ?'".r Robet't-Peel, though not of the •I i'jtoric, but now dismantled home : t Dray ton Manor. Thus Mr Cladstoiie's example nnd injunction will be observed, whilst his third, ■paratope, 'favourite son will 'have eirned a peerage as a reward of ] M-sonal merit and long public ser't ice.