GOOD COUNSEL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2827, 17 April 1882, Page 2

GOOD COUNSEL.

The following utterances of the newly ! appointed Agent Qneral of Victoria (Mr m Murray Smith) apply to ■ New Zea* ■ landers quite : as much as to • Victorians - ; and we commend them to every young map of intelligence : —“ I trust,” he said, “that they will rememberphow greathat interest is, and how great ;th© r©, sponsibility is which that interest bears, with it, that they will love theircountry. with that love which is brought,, from the storied past; that’, they will remember that they are not only .tneia-v ‘ habitants of a colony,! but also the ~ children or the granohildren of what is still the most renowned kingdom or empire on the face of the earth; that they will remember that for ajl the blessings they now enjoy, for itbe freedom, for the domestic happiness, forth© general prosperity around them, they, are indebted moro to the struggles of their great English forefathers than to anything else. They will remember! ’I Hope, what a responsibility all that brings with it, and will endeavour so to use their educational advantages and ’ their great opportunities as to make of Victoria, of Australia, a greater and * even a brighter Britain; and to see thit J ' ! ' the country of their birth, as it haw 0 Jrbeen the country, of our, adoption, does not suffer in their hands.”