HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3975, 28 November 1891, Page 2

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.

An Eloquent Speech.

One "Woman One Babe

[Per Press Association.]

Dcnedin, November 27

) At the Show luncheon to-day i Lord Onslow .replying to the toast of ■ his health, spoke at considerable . length. He referred to the resources ) of the Colony, and said an insignifi- , cant portion of the colony's possessions would defray the national debt. He • referred to the growth of the dairy industry, and said with- care the ; fears he had seen expressed that New ' Zealand would be Don mark's greatest • competitor would bejustified. Some I attention should be paid to removing the prejudices against frozen mutton i and sweeping away the middlemen. . He regretted the Colony had lost the i opportunity of advertisement by keep- ) ing out of the labour struggle and ' strikes. After speaking of the exodus, which appeared to have l ceased, he said :—" I have noticed in New Zealand a strong antipathy to ; plurality either in nature or in politics. , I am told that in the Island; to the , South there are albatrosses that have one egg, and sea lions that have one whelp. Here one man has one vote, and I am told that one man is to . have one run, but I hope the day is fur distant when in New Zealand one woman will have one babe. (Laugh ter and applause). Napoleon told Marrie de Stael that he considered the greatest woman in the world was she who had borne the most children. New Zealand has been blessed by God with a genial climate, a fertile soil, and the Anglo-Saxon race. To become a great nation she must rely on;the strong arms of her sons, and leave the rest to her daughters. Hut whether colonisation is fed by a torrent of immigration, or by the gently flowing stream of natural increase, we must not tolerate a leak at the other end of thecask. It is the business of statesmen to make the Colony attractive tq those who are m it. To me it seems already a happy hunting ground for the poor mail; but wise statesmanship may make it a paradise. Tho matter is entirely in your own hands, for no Government approaches more closely the ideal of President Lincoln—" A Government of tho people by the) people for the people." No Govern merits have committed greater errors thaji those committed by an ill educated democracy with low minded and fanatical rulers such a3 France had at tfie time of her revolution ; while on the other hand no Government is so capable of doing great things us a ! well-educated Democracy with hi»h minded and unselfish leaders. Gentlemen, when the time comes for me to leave your shores then will be no period of my life more pleasant in retronpfict than those years which i\ shallTiave spent as Her Majesty's representative in New Zealand, brightened as they have been \yith every mark of loyalty and with a thousand acts of kjudness and courtesy; and in the future there will be to me no more pleasing task, no greater ambition in a different sphere

of action in our Mother Country, than to proclaim the wealth of your resources, the beauty of your islands, and the geniality of your people—to promote, however humbly, Jjjjc flow of capital and of population—of both of which England has so boundless a store—into this Britain of the South, that the community of our interests may be still more closely interlaced and intertwined, and that we may thereby conduce to the prosperity' of New Zealand, and of all associations bound up in that prosperity, such as the Agricultural and Pastoral Association of Otago. The Hon R. J. Seddon, in re« plying to "The Visitors," said this Government were anxious to settle people on the laud, and were at present considering a soheme of rrigation for Central Otago.