Mr J. G. Wilson.

Manawatu Herald, 27 September 1892, Page 2

Mr J. G. Wilson.

The Christcburoh Press has been publishing a number of Political portraits, and this is what it has to say about the representative of Palmerston :— It does not necessarily follow that a man s und'ati guishad because he does not startle the air with hoarse howlings. If Mr J. G. Wilson's claims to notice and con.

sideration rested sdefy on the fierce* fless and frequency «* hfe roarings he wtfdlcH bfc less distinguished than Earnshaw Or Hogg, et hoe gmu* omne. For Mr Wilson is not very often en Evidence in the House, and when he is he is modulated and temperate. At the same time, he cannot be truthfully described as on© of the hopes of his party, unless tha hopeg of his party centre in a gentlemanly, unobstructive member, who* is a fair speaker and worker, and who declines to get excited or mop the floor with his political foe If so Mr Wilson will supply his party's modest wacts, not otherwise. He is a little over the middle height, well and quietly dressed, genial in manner^ a good companion, fairly endowed with the desirable things of the world, owns one or two racehorses* which have not yet won the Melbourne Gup, wears goggles, he has accomplished no excruciating notoriety of any sort. Mr Wilson is probably on 6 of those people disposed to take life kindly as it comes, with no excessive ambitions, but satisfied with little, but that little of the best. ' A philosopher, I should imagine, such as is described by the " Autocrat of the Breakfast Table/ in his Terief, entitled, " Contentment " :— - I care not much for gold or land, Give me a mortgage here and there, *oroe good bank stook— soise note of hana Or trifling railroad share ; . I only ask that fortune send, A little more than I can spend.