AUSTRALIAN SYMPATHY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1632, 26 December 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN SYMPATHY.

(Rec. December 2(1, 0.50 a.m.) Melbourne, December 25. The Governor-General, Lord Denham, has cabled to Lord Hardinge Hint he learnt with deep regret of the dastardly attempt, and the Cominoawealth Govern.-

ment desires to express its sincere sympathy and hopes for a'speedy recovery.

MESSAGE FEOM NEW ZEALAND. The Prime Minister has risked his Excellency the Governor to send a cable message to the' Secretary of State for the Colonies expressing the profound regret of the Government and people of Now Zealand at the attempt made on the life of his Excellency the- Viceroy of India, and conveying the sincere hope that the dastardly occurrence will not bo attended with- any serious results to his Excellency or Lady Hardinge.

LORD HARDINGE'S CAREEE. 'Lord Hardinge of Penshurst is the second son of the second Viscount Hardinge. His grandfather, the famous commander in the Peninsular War, became GovernorGeneral of India in 18J4, and his term of office was made memorable by the campaign of the Sutlcj. Ho also held Ministerial office, including that of Secretary at War and Chief Secretary for Ireland, and was created a viscount in 184 G. Lord ■Hardinge was born on June 20, 1858, and was educated.at Harrow and Trinity Coir lege, Cambridge, taking his degree in 1880. In the same year he. entered the Diplc- . maj;ic Service. He was stationed successively at Constantinople, Berlin, Washington, Sofia, Bukarcst, Paris, Teheran, and St. Petersburg. In 1903 he became Assistant Under-Secretaray.of State for Foreign Affairs, and as Minister Plenipotentiary accompanied the late King on his visits to Lisbon, Eomo, and Pnris. In the following vear he was appointed Ambassador at St. Petersburg. In. 1906 he returned to London to take up the duties of Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which position ho held until his appointment as Viceroy in June, 1910. As Minister in Attendance he accompanied King Edward on his visits to Athens, and Friedrichshof (190G), to Carthagena and Gaeta, Wilhelmshohe and Ischl (1907), to Copenhagen, Stookholm, Christiania, Reval; Friedrichshof, and Ischl (1908), and to Berlin (1909). / ' . Lord .Hardinge married in 1890 the Hon. Winifred Stat, daughter of the first Lord Alington and Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra. He has two sons and one daughter.