LIFE OF LORD SALISBURY.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1921, Page 8

LIFE OF LORD SALISBURY.

REFERENCES TO DOMINIONS. ■ By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. London, Nov. 16. fl Hodder and Stoughton have publishefl the life of the Marquis of Salisbury, bfl his daughter, Lady Gwendolen Cecil, ifl includes letters written during his sfl journ in Australia and New Writing in 1852, from Melbourne, found he could gather little of church’s condition there, because great mass of the people had an sorbing interest in gold and seemed have almost forgotten the existence Christianity. He found Adelaide almost and on the verge of ruin through gold rush. Melbourne was thronged ephemeral plutocrats, generally hurrying to exchange gold nuggets velvet gowns for their wives and ited whisky for themselves. Curiously enough, he found more admire at the diggings. He was to find the social anarchy which terised California, but instead more order and civility than he ed in his own native village of He records the strong feeling prevail ing against Downing Street, and '•People are apt te be riled at their minutest alia ir- settled for them a distance of 16.000 miles by without the faintest notion of the tions handled. We alienate the colonel and harrass every Ministry fpr the quisite privilege of supporting s.>mefl clerks. ; Lord Salisbury’s political career is (interestingly- dealt with. I (The Marquis of Salisbury, then L6rd Robert Cecil, visited New Plymouth* in I August. 1852. having-come 1 from Manu- | kau in a small schooner. After staying here a day or two, he left on foot :or Wellington.)