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Manawatu Herald, 16 July 1904, Page 2

The Governor, Lord Plunket, has paid flying visits to where do we Palmerston North and come Peilding, and has been in ? received with great enthusiasm at both towns. We n tice that Foxton al ways seems to be left out in the official programme. This remark is not confined to vice-royalty only ; it applies with equal force to out politicians We have not seen our member for an unconscionable long time, while Mr Seddon is almost a stranger to the town, if these lesser dignitaries leave us severely alone, we can hardly expect that a real live Governor would deign to favour us with his presence. One thought gives us consolation. The late Marquis of Salisbury, formerly Prime Minister of Great Britain, and Sir Charles Dilke, one of the leading statesmen of the day, visited us in the early days—a privilege that was not vousehafed to many of the towns of the colony. With regard to the reason for the long-continued neglect on the part of our “ betters,” we cannot definitely attribute it to any cause, though we shrewdly suspect that the vision of a railway ride from Palmerston is what defers a visit. Fancy the Premier travelling in one of our second-class smokers! Mr Seddon would be compelled to admit that there were at least some parts of New Zealand that could not truthfully bedesig nated “ God’s own country.”