WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3643, 30 August 1880, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day. Speech by the Governor. Farting Advice. At a dinner given by Sir Wm. Fitzherbert, in the Council Chambers on Saturday night, His Excellency the Governor, in replying to the toast of his health, said that had he been at liberty to consult his own inclinations, he should have stayed here. He bad told his English friends he was pleased with the climate and people, and that he should like to settle here after he had retired into private life. Expecting as he did to remain in New Zealand for his full term, he had made private engagements that would have identified him with the interests and amusements of the country. He regretted leaving this colony, which, he said, was of surpassing interest; it bad an unrivalled climate, unsurpassed soil, vast mineral resources, and a most favorable geographical position, | but the Administration here bad not always been ! above criticism. e! ource'l °^ 9

country were so vast that it would not go wrong eventually. In proportion to the population Few Zealand was more in debt than any other country; and as parting ad rice, he would urge New Zealand to rest content with its present preeminence in indebtedness. They should not go the extremity of the list straw, or the result would be disastrous. They were very fortunate in getting so able an administrator as Sir A. Gordon; he was a most conscientious, able, and highminded man than whom a better could not be found.

A man named Kill, a restaurant-keeper, was thrown from his horse yesterday, the fall causing concussion of the brain.