The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY MARCH 7,1889. A GREAT TANGI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3147, 7 March 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY MARCH 7,1889. A GREAT TANGI.

Wellington is now slowly but surely preparing herself for a great tangi, a big gush and a moist farewell. Sir William Jervois, beloved of high and low, has made up his mind to leave a colony where he possibly suffers from over appreciation, and the Mayor and the Council, and the big men and thelittbmen of thejmpire City are going to banquet him. It

is, we fear, undeniably true that Sir William is the most popular Governor we have ever had, and it is difficult to wrte about such a man. The treatment that such a gubernatorial pet requires is not more pats on the head, but,.if possible, one or two judicious digs in the ribs, He must be tired of Empire City toffee and long for some one who will snub him or take him down a peg. Perhaps his • weariness of universal adulation is leading him to sever his connection with the Colony. If we knew anything bad about Sir William Jervois we should certainly take this opportunity of repeating it, but in some mysterious way he seems to have "got at" most people. Even Mr Ballance, \\\\o is supposed to regard Governors with a dynamite glance, speaks well of Sir William, and there is neither politician nor journalist in the Colony who is apparently able or wiling to tone down the gush that is beginning to well up on all sides. This popularity of Sir William is hardly fair to those who have preceded him, and to those who have to succeed him at Government house. How sad Sir George Grey must feel, to think that an Irish Governor, who has kissed the 1 blarney stone to .more purpose than himsolf,. should have knocked him into a cocked'hat as a popular administrator, and how disgusted Earl Onslow will feel when he-finds he has to follow next to the most popular Governor on record,. We would like to' know if it is possible for a'man to be ! 'as populafas Sir "William Jervois without being a wee bit pjf a hpbug, without being all things k> all men \o a somewhat undesirable degree. 0p WgUjngton C on&«porary, the N.Z, Time's, says it is alfbeoau'J? of his signal merits, and catalogues the. latter to bell) admirable discharge of gubernatorial functions, (2) national defences, (8) beneficial influence on . colonial society. It may perhaps serv,e to relieve the pent up sentiments of gratitude which we are supposed to entertain towards Sir William if we reflect that for the first lie has been paid a substantial stipend, and that for the second the colony, has had to pay an .enormous sum cf nipjiey. The third merit we must take as granted, because our contemporary does not indicate the scope and nature of the service rendered. Still, if Sir William Jervois has failed in any duty, the ordeal banquet whioh he has to undergo prior to his departure,. will probably be punishment enough for : him. Let us hope that Earl Onslow will he,' if possible, a -trifle less popular than Sir -William Jervois. We want a Sir Arthur Gordon amongst us once more for a short time as a sort of tonic.