OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1547, 17 September 1912, Page 4

OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

"EVERY QUALIFICATION FOR SUCH A POSITION." Our new Governor, Lord Liverpool has (judging by latest English mail newsj lived a busy lite, although he lias not figured very largely in the public eye. As a soldier, he took his soldiering seri-, ously. He went through Sandhurst, and after attaining a staff-captaincy at.Dub-' lin, with an appointment as extra aide-de-ramp to the JJeuleinuit-Govcrnor (Earl Cadogan) spent a year on active service in South Africa. In 1907 he retired from tho Riile Brigade with the rank of major, and since then has identified himself with the British Territorial Army, being uow' in command of a battalion of the Eighth' City of London Rifles (Post and Telegraph Rifles). He has taken nn onthusiaslic interest in his .territorials, and during the recent training season has roughed it with theiii on manoeuvres.

Lord Liverpool look his seat in (lis House of Lords in 1907, and in 11)1] was appointed to assist tho Chief Whip in tho Upper House. Lord Liverpool's . father, the fourth, carl, was in New Zealand as a midshipman on board H.M.S. Curawn during tho Maori troubles'in the early days of this country's colonisation, and' went through part of tho Waikato campaign, including.the attack on the Raiigiriri Stockade. Our new Governor, states tho "Westminster Gazette," in a thumb-nail sketch' of Lord Liverpool, has every qualification for the occupant of such a position, har. ing the advantages not only of a dis< tinguished presence, birth, and wealth, but also of notable tact and other social qualities, to say nothing of a record of good work dono in the past, and also a' love of sport, which may bo counted as another valuable asset. Moto than eighty years have elapsed now since the death of the most famous of Lord Liverpool's predecessors—namely, the second bearer of the title, who succeeded to the Premiership on the assassination of Spencer Perceval and held that office for tho long period of fifteen years without a break. The first peer was a notable man, too, who -sat originally in the House of Commons as Sir Charles Jcivkinsoii in the early years of the reign of George 111, and filled with distinction several Ministerial offices. He in liis turn was descended from' that Anthony Jenkinsou, one of the most remarkable meii of the sixteenth-century, who as the agent of the Muscovy Company in Russia was mainly instrumental in establishing trade relations between England- and tho Russia of Ivan the Terrible.