ARTHUR GODLEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1204, 14 October 1882, Page 2

ARTHUR GODLEN.

The following eiftraot frqm the Spectator of July 22nd last-will be read with great interest (says the Lyuelton Times) by n)d Canterbury settlers and the personal friends of the late Mr tiodley, the leader in founding this settlement. Arthur Godley, the subject of the paragraph, was about four years of ago when the first colonist landed at Lyttelton on December 16th, 1950. He is not yet 36 years old, "anil is, sp, to speak, quite a young mnn for so important an ofljoe as Commissioner of inland Bevenqe, He was private secretary fc Mr Gladstone in the last Government of which the right honourable gentleman was Premier, prior to Lord Beaconfield becoming head of the late Conservative Government;—Mr John Arthp Godley, Mr Gladstone's private sebretiiryj who is - ! gettflfljlj? understood {o'have'baen op|e |! |J>JBs|'pri. vate secretaries' a Minister ever had, has' been appointed a Commissioner of Inland Revenue, |Ween 1865 and J876" Mr Godley won almost a)V t|)e' }]onprs Oxford could give him, except that of a high class in tho Finial Schools, when he was unfortunately ill. He was a Balliol scholar, a Hertford scholar, a Gaisford prize man, an Eldon law scholar, and a fellow of H^rpfqrd i , and. pro he has passed through oije of tlje ttiqst adnj'frable of all political schqols with'at least equal distinction, only, ajas I to become a Commissioner of Inland Revenug. Jt is a pity thftt tl)Bfe aye np sqch, institutions as Political fellowships, which rpbht epWe such a man as this tn enter on a parliamentary career, and so raise the standard of statesmanship in the House of Commons,