THE NEW GOVERNOR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1625, 17 December 1912, Page 7

THE NEW GOVERNOR.

ARRIVES AT AUCKLAND TO-MORROW.

SWEARING-IN CEREMONY.

ARRANGEMENTS IN WELLINGTON

The Governor-Designate, the Earl of Liverpool, the Countess of Liverpool, and suite are duo to arrive- in Auckland by tho P. and 0. Company's mail-boat Malwa at about 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. They will leave for Wellington at 0.30 p.m., by special train, arriving here-at i2f:lo on 'i'nursday.

The new Governor will be met at Auckland by Captain Shawe, Chief A.D.C., who is duo to arrive there- from Vancouver today by tho Makura. Tho party, which will arrive by the special train on Thursday, will consist of llio Earl and Countess of Liverpool, Miss Foljambe, Captain Shawe, and Lieutenant Eastwood,'A.D.C., a maid, and a valet. .Representatives of the Government who will meet Lord Liverpool on arrival at Auckland will be Sir Robert Stout, Administrator of the Government", tho Hon. TV. F. Massey, Prime .Minister, and the Hon. ¥. 10L. As. Yisbcr, for Customs and Marine. Sir "Robert Stout and Mr. Massey wilt fravef down from Auck- , land by the, same tram witb. Lord lAvevnoa/. The Prime Minister and llJr. Fisher leave for Auckland to-day, and Siv "Robert Stout is duo to arrivo there this morning.

When the Governor-Designate arrives at Thorndon station on Thursday he will le welcomed by tho Mayor and Corporation of Wellington. There will be no ceremony except the few necessary words of welcome by the Mayor: there will be l'O salute, no guard of honour, and nothing of a military character. After the civio welcome at the station, Lord Liverpool will proceed to Government House by motor-cur.

At 2.45 p.m. his Excellency will leavo Government House for Government Buildings, where he will be sworn in as Governor at 3 o'clock. Tho Touto from Government Houso will be via Kent Terrace, Vivian Street, Cuba Street, Manners Street, Willis Street, and Lambton Quay. As Lord Liverpool leaves Government, House to set out for Government Buildings a salute will be fired by the Royal New Zealand Artillery, and after his Excellency has tuken the oath at 3 p.m., a salute will bo fired by H.M.S. Cambrian. After the ceremony the Governor will return' to Government House, via Lambton Quay, Willis Street, Manners Street, Courtenay Place, and Kent Terrace: "A" Squadron, Gth Mounted Rifles, will furnish the escort to the Governor's carriage in its progress through the streets. A staging is being erected for the ceremony of swearing in the Governor, and invitations will be issued to those entitled to be accommodated on it These will include members of Parliament, high officials in tho Public Service, members of important local bodies-, and other prominr ent citizens. The actual ceremony should occupy no moire than a few minutes. The Clerk of the Executive Council (Mr. J. F. Andrews) will, read his Excellency's commission, and then tho terms of fee oath which his Excellency is required to take. Sir Robert Stout will administer the oath, and the ceremony will then he over. Afterwards it is-possible that l:is Excellency may address the assemblage briefly, and that the Prime Minister may also speak.

Mr. Gavin Hamilton, secretary to Lord Liverpool, is at present superintending the transference of the luggage and effects from the Ruapehu to Government. House. Among the vehicles brought out 1 are two motor-cars, which will be landed to-day. .WELCOMED IN SYDNEY. LORD LIVERPOOL'S PERSONALITY. , (From Our Special Correspondent.) Sydney, December 11. Lord Liverpool, the newly-appointed Governor of New Zealand, is darkfeatured, of middle age, with his hair touched with grey, and with the well-set easy carriage which comes from a career in tho army—for his Excellency has'had a long experience as a military officerfirst in the Rifle Brigade, in which his aide-de-camp, Captan Eastwood, holds a commission, and then as LieutenantColonel in command of the Eighth City of London Rifles. '

Tho Governor was delighted with the greeting extended to him by New Zeaiandera in Sydney, when the Malwa from London arrived this morning. All the same, it was a pity that a more representative gathering of the 12,000 or 13,000 New Zealanderg resident in Sydney could not have been present. However, those who managed to come down to the P. and O. Company's Wharf at 9 o'clock, the hour fixed for the welcome, made up in thoir enthusiasm what they lacked in numbers. In the absence of Mr. Owen Cox (president of the New Zealand Association), Mr. E. H. Montgomery, the New .Zealand Government Agent, read an address of welcome, to which Lord Liverpool gracefully replied, expressing his appreciation of the spontaneous cordiality of the gathering. "We are looking forward with great interest," he said, "to seeing our new home, where we know we shall be very happy." His Excellency speaks with a clear, rich baritone, and one wished that he could have heard so fine a voico in a set speech. Ho read his reply from a sheet of notepaper, but all the same one felt that his readiness and. definiteness were qualities that mark all that he does. All who met them were charmed with the Governor and his wife. Their unforced freedom and pleasant manner, and their entire absence of "frill," will make them immensely popular in New Zealand. The' littlo ceremony of welcome this morning took place on the sweeping saloon deck of the Malwa, outside his Excellency's cabin, and when ha walked forward into the midst of the title group, four Maoris, led by Kirimata (Charles Peters), of tho Ngati Apnkura tribe,. of Kawhia, shouted a Maori "welcome." This 6udden warlike yell appeared at first to startle the Governor, but he speedily realised its import, and was as greatly impressed as some other passengers, fresh from England, were amused at this novel, greeting.. One of the passengers to whom it was not now, however, was Lady Stout, who reached here this mornincr by the Malwa.. Sho watched tho proceedings with several others, and was amused, not at the war-cry. but at the startled curiosity which it aroused in the minds of the others.

Peters, who has been in Sydney for six years, where he is in constant employment, nevertheless found the heat of tho morning a littlo trying for a haka. clad as he was in the heavy tweed clothing of modern civilisation, but he and the three other Maoris with him danced it bravely, "his eyes in fine frenzy rolling." The Governor was mitt© interested in the displov, and joined cordially in the applaure.

I." His.Excellency and Ladv Liverpool vers nhotographed with the New Zealonders heforo they said farewell. Afterward* the Governor and his wifo drove to "Cranbrook," the Slate Goyemmcnt House, where they are to be the guests of Lord Chelmsford until. Saturday, ■ whon they leave for New Zealand by tho Malwa. Accomnanyinnr Lord and Lady Liverpool are JHrs Foljnmbe, ■ a cousin of his Exrn>llenrv. and Cantain Eastwood, of tho Rifle Brigade, the Governor's aide-de-camp. Tho party, on the day of arrival in Auckland, will leave for Wellington. The Christmas holidays will be spent in Wellington, and Auckland will then bo revisited.