THE NEW GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 63, 14 December 1878, Page 3

THE NEW GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA.

by tie- Duke of Buckingham of the Go-1 vernorship of Victoria, the Madras Mi il , lm.-lhe following remarks from, which it' seems probable. tl;at Messrs. Berry anil ('-, Mill catch a 1 ii tm if thev don't mind their p's ami q's: -It is uud. r.-tnod in | Madras that lie- (,l n, on the eve of his \ grace'-, departure for Mi dras, exact-1 a promise from tin Ihikc thai he wml ! not remain mora til m three years in In dia. His three veal's will expire mi the •j:ir.l November next. Ten years ag • the Duke was Sec-.v.i irv of State f. •• lie Colonics and n thai canaeif. bad a -ical .leal todo with Australia, lie will be fifty-five on tho 10th pr ximo, an i lo ks j lit for lit least live, jf ,„,! |i , i. yea -"f I bail) 'ork'downS uth.' l'liu Vn-turii .- seem in n bad politicalwav. ti" rg" J'i.wii has suecte I'd 'in setting all jnrtios by the ears, aid he has I e.< £UI It of lonsenl u ' in nets v u u ire unparnflcdin historv. Sooner i ban act as he has done at the niddi.ig of his constituted advisers, lie sii nti.i have resigned. His recent cancellation of t!ie bulk >f iijipointments in the public service bis naiui'illv engendered a wid'spivad feeling of dismay. A New G.,\ciii,.r is uvgenclv needed ro.soot I.h'he imi; t passions of the" colonists. Tne Duk'i f Uii»kiiighu'ii would bo web m ni.mv grounds in Melbourne ; not .east because hj" is known ..I iiave sat upon bis own ; astittt'cil divisors in Jlhilras wit., su"-esslul dclcimil, .inn. New Z nlan ild 1 a Marquis . i rule hi r quill' ■ ""til ' : I lunula is In have a Marquis and a Pr m-si; why may mav not Victoria nsk for a Duke and one, too" who has ha.l some cduciitinu in Colonial affairs? .1.i.l his G.-iv not la 'ti born in lue purple he could Iniv a.le uii excellent Voloiiist, for he lias a lively sympathy with all soils and e.-.n.liti ..is if in...i, nud lakes a vciy intelligent inte-r-si .u thei ■ ae theds nf earning liveliii id lie lias alsc a taste for live stock, '.'.!• agricultural pr coses, and for inacliiic i ■■'. ilis long fninilinrit' - with the conduct of bu-iness in both Houses of Pumameut, und in Government (JlHces in Loudon, murk him out a- hj mun we I fitted to lend the excited members of tho Victorian (labini t and Legislature back to the paths of legality, pro lent, and safety.*