Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1902. The Retirement of Lord Salisbury.

Manawatu Herald, 17 July 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1902. The Retirement of Lord Salisbury.

The English speaking race will have learnt, with a very large measure of regret, that Lord Salisbury, Premier of Great Britain resigned the seals of his office to His Majesty the King last Friday. The premier, we have been told has yearned for rest and had not the war in Africa been in full sway, would have resigned a year or two ago. The Statesman is in his seventy-second year, and has borne arduous posts for the last 40 years. The loss of Lady Salisbury baa been a heavy blow and there can be no doubt that he has yearned for the peace and quietness of unofficial life and for the quiet occupations which has always demanded his strong attention and interest. We have no right to begrudge the leisure now granted him for he ungrudgingly gave the strength of the best years of his life to his nation's work. A Lord Salisbury is a name to be proud of, and one which could not bo improved upon, for history records the name with much of Great Britain’s success in war and politics. It is not therefore surpassing strange, that the King desired to mark the nation’s gratitude to the peer by bestowing conspicuous promotion, or that the latter begged to be allowed to decline. We, as members of this Great Empire would rather still retain the name of Lord Salisbury in memory of the man in whom all reposed the fullest confidence, rather than it should be lost in some new title which though it would add not one whit to his honours, would lose the personalty of the greatest Conservative Premier the Empire has ever possessed. Longing to retire, Lord Salisbury, as a soldier at hia post, has kept guard during his Queen’s life and onward until bis sovereign, the King, was pronounced out of danger. He has done all that he could do and deserves the earnest thanks of every member of the Empire we are all so proud to belong to.