THE QUEENSLAND TROUBLE

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 231, 6 December 1888, Page 2

THE QUEENSLAND TROUBLE

McILWRAITH’S SUCCESSOR. # TAKING THE SAME STAND AS HIS PREDECESSOR. London. Dec. 4. It is reported that Mr B D. Morehead, the new Premier of Queensland, is taking the same stand with reference to tho appointment of a Governor to the colony, as his predecessor in office (Sir Thomas Mcliwraith), and that he has informed the Colonial Office that he insists on the right of th« Queensland Government to be consulted on such matters.

Our Melbourne correepondent writes aa follows :—Perhaps the most lively and general topic of all during the week has been the Queensland Governor >nd as my readers may imagine, Melbourne to a-ffttm is —- with Sir Thomas Mcliwraith in his sturdy protestation. The matter was mentioned in the House bat week by Davie Gaunson, a red hot Radical, who advanced the proposition that “every British Colony under responsible government possesses the right to a voice in the choice of its Governor. ” There was a good deal of talk over the matter, but nothing else ; though it is certain that when Sir Henry Loch’s time transpires, wo shall also want to have our little say in the election of his successor. It is interesting to know that our Governor strongly holds the opinion that each Colony should have a voice in the election of their vice-regal head. He is not backward in saying that he considers it only just and right—and I take it that i r . is very liberal minded of him to so express himself. Of course, he can in reality say it with a free conscience, for it is not 1 kely to affect hit * interests in any way. I believe it is his and Lady Loch’s intention, on the expiry of Sir Henry’s term of office here, to retire into . what Cowper calls, “the calm seclusion of retiring lives.” They both lik** Melbourne -* immensely, but the climate of Victoria does not suit her ladyship as well as it might, and then she is like all English women ; she believes there is no education for chi drea like a sound English one, and is anxious to settle at Home in order to give her rising olive branches the utmost advantages possible.