SIR WILLIAM JERVOIS ON GORDON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 67, 20 February 1885, Page 2

SIR WILLIAM JERVOIS ON GORDON.

A STBIKING EULOGY. , At the opening of the new Boys"fHigh School in Dunedin, his Excellency, .the Governor referred as follows to General Gordon :— " Before -we: leave , this < hall there is one matter to which IVannot but refer, because I deem it one which should not be passed over in silence. It only came to liiy knowledge just before I entered the hall. I do not think ..any meeting of British people should -part -without reference to the melancholy incident that has jast occurred; in the Soudan—my friend General Gordon's death. As I dare say some of you know, it has been, absolutely ascertained that .he was betrayed by the commander of the : Soudanese troops and killed. I have" a keen and melancholy feeling of regret ,at this, for .he was a very old friend of'inine. U I saw him, and he made me a small present just before starting his first career as Governor of the Soudan, -and never was there since the world began a more chivalrous, generous, noble-minded' man than Gordon. In hiin the country|has lost a public servant who will be ever deplored, and not only deplored throughr out the British nation, . but- throughout the world wherever" his name 'has been heard, and I believe it has been heard in every nation throughout the globe. I repeat never was there >■ a nobler character than Gordon's, and all his qualities was dependent upon the generosity and unselfishness that distinguished him. He cared not for money, or whether he lived or died, so long as he did his duty. : — (Applause). ' He has died nobly in the cause of duty, and he is a pattern to all men, and especiallyito the rising generation, of whom I see so many now before me." " : "