The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4386, 24 January 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1883.

It is gratifying to us to notice that the South Australian Advertiser, alluding to Sir William JervoiV speech at the Adelaide banquet, says :-—" The remarks of Sir William .Jervois will carry perhaps additional weight because he is not only a departing Governor—he is a colonist, bavin); a stake in the country. The colonists will be glad to know that this tie exists between them, and the distin*. guished officer and gentleman who has constitutionally and' wisely ruled over them for five years ; who in his intercourse with Her Majesty's sub jects in this province has displayed so much kindly feeling and who has taken so warm and active an interest in all institutions and movements calculated to promote the material prosperity of the colony, and the social, moral, and intellectual advancement of the people. In their recollections of the Governor the colonists will associate the name of Lady Jervois, who has with him so gracefully dispensed the hospitalities of Government House, and whose active exertions in the cause of charity and in connection with various useful and beneficent organisations are deserving of the warmest recognition. South Australians, while parting regretfully from His, Excellency and Lady Jervois, cannot but feel pleasure at the well-earned promotion, and will wish that happiness and prosperity may accompany them and their family in their new sphere." Coming to us as he does with such flattering testimony as to his good qualities, makes us almost unable to reaiiie - the ' happiness -is stote for us. It would have been much more charitable on the part of the Home Government if they had by degrees gradually led us up to this empyrean pinnacle. From Sir Arthur Gordon, to the object of the eulogies published by the Adelaide newspaper,' is too sudden a transition for us, and it is to be hoped that the beads of the Wellington people will not be turned by the advent of Sir Wm, Jervois to. the colony. His predecessor was, in.society, a most objectionable person, almost rude, cantankerous, aud uninviting in bis manner—in fact, he possessed, no social qualities whatever. His public life in the colony called for no comment, beyond that portion, of it which shewed treachery to his Ministers, untruthfulnegs to his employers, a want of administrative ability or knowledge of colonial affairs, and a spirit of vindictive neBS almost unequalled' in any colonial Governor, past or prejent. Our new Governor has, in another colony, given evidence of the possession of good sterl» ing social qualities, experience in viceregal control, and undoubted gubernatorial ability, of, a very high order; and should he not meet ..with the tame allround" success in N/ew Zealand as has

been his lot in previous rice-regal positions, there must be something wrong with this colony, its climate, its Ministry* or—generally.