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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1311, 23 February 1883, Page 2

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" : ■ ■ , : Q ■- ■t UNITED PKESS ASSOUIATION| 'i . ! ' THE GOVERNOR IN CANTERI . .. : ■ BUBY. "~~■ CHRTSTpnuitcn, February 21, >1 The Governor today visited, the X/yttele tou Borough Schools, Gaol, and Orphanh age,, He was entertained at luncheon on r - board the p,s, Lyttelton by the Harbor if Board, and subsequently made a tour of I- inspection of the harbor, 's His Excellency the Governor was d entertained by iho Mayor Ohristchurch e at a banquet in the Aoadeniy of Muiio toil night, About 80 people were present. "■ Replying tohisheaith, the Governor said d: that his first visit to Ohristchurch had n been a source of unbounded pleasure, and g was ouly one, ho trusted, of many visits r- he Bh'iuld pay it. In'the town he saw m much that brought to bis .mind many '8 associations relating to a much earlier e period 1 of ljia rlijstory. In Cathedral's square he saw -i sjatup of an old colloa«ue is in the War Oliico, John Robert.Godley, ie whose" sterling qualities he well romeuin bered. Another man he remotnbored |R was James Edward FilzGerald, whom it he knew in his boyhood. He (the Goif vernor) was delighted and astonished at n the great strides taken by the place with- -- in half of the period of his life. Thirtyi- nine years ago it did not exist, now it was a thriving city, with a thriving port, and , e reminded him more than any other place I in the world of. Old England, The energy v shown here was at one with that shown I by the Anglo-Saxon race in America and 'a Australia, and all parts of the world which , e should give them all reason to be proud of y iho race and empire to which they il belonged. He ventured to predict that, it ere long, though not perhaps in his day, , the question of Federation of the l' British empire would bocome a question y of practical politics. The part the [ r colony had to play' in this great 3 scheme v,as simply to go on de- ,-' velopiug its resource. He regarded itc !! debt as a thing that could be easily borne" \~ A country like New Zealand, which could e support a population ofteii times the size (] of the present one, would have little diffi it cutty in paying off its debt. If he were j able to do anything lo advance the deif velopment of the colony ho would be d proud and happy to do so, He believed j, that the colony would go on making ir railways; opening up new country, and e would become a nation numbered by rcild lions, and a great faotor in the British d community, ir Replying to the toast of" The Colonial e Parliament," tb'e:Hon,.J. T. Peacock esj. pressed the opinion that -the'-fregislative l Council had the confidence of the country, ,r and he hoped the constituents of the } colony woujd remain intact, Mr v W. n Montgomery paid <|!»' ?? er y 5! an in tlie ;. House felt that the colopy should become D as -lis -"Excellency said, the-home of d millions. They might, differ as to the ir moans of advancing the prosperity of the n colony,.but if they, did, not,, it .would be, ' 6 stagnant! .The colony 'Had many imporb tant things to'maintain and advance, such ft as public l works and education, and he j. .was bum that all members of Parliament i- 'ivere'nnxionsHotreatthese iii a manner ecalculated to advance tlie interests of the. e I colony. I The other speeches' were unimportant.