SIR JOHN GORST.

Manawatu Herald, 8 February 1889, Page 2

SIR JOHN GORST.

" Puff" in the Evening Press *§. lates the <ollav.flngi ;--r: /fj j >sir John Gorst is coming to New Zea'and ! Who's he ? He's a greet swell now. I He wa« Solicitor-General in t,ha last Salisbury iUiuisrry and now he J UnderSecretary for ludia ! But he. wm'q'l such a big wan onoe ! He wu Civil Commissioner in gfye W*ikato<tiurinjr the war and ran a little Mantf MD er called the flhoihoi, ihe Iprow \» the housetop T »'i*' .. < ; ,■ ■„..„ ' Oh /'that's thtfehttp I Th«y4fcd awful rows over it, did'n't they ? Ye«, Rewi sei)tßo Ngstimaniepotpi to Awaniutu an I they carried off th»

whole printing establishment t And what became of Gorst ? He held out pluckily for a .time, but at last he had to clear out to ..Auckland I Then he went to :|galia and raised the Waikato MU^ei{ •■■ill got to loggerheads with th|^^l| W_^oent afterwards, though, and made himself a confounded nuistmoe, so he went Home, passed for the law got into Parliament and was a great sueoeas! Ah, it will, be very interesting for him, to come back to i^.ew Zealand aud gee )*ow it looks after 20 years' Absence^ , He'U find a wonderful change, not aUogt^'uer for the better I Wlvat will he notice most ? Nothing will swke him so much *a the absence ofvthg; Maoris ! They lave Wniehed likfe'a dream since his time, and a good m aiy very mean whites are here in their place !