AUSTRALIAN GOVERNORS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 846, 5 July 1878, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNORS.

The following list of Governors of Australia, with the populations according to the last statistics prior to our census of the present year, the extent of the territory in square miles, and the salaries attached to tho office, will be of interest:—N. S. W.: square miles 323,437, population 519,182, Sir H. Robinson, L 7.000 ; W. Australia: square miles, 978,000, population 25,353, M.-Gcn. Sir H. Ord, L 2,5000 ; S. Australia, square miles 383,328, population 187,851, M.G. Sir W. Jcrvois, L 5,000; Victoria, square miles 80,831, copulation 770,727, Sir F. G. Bowen, T. 10,000 ; Queensland : square miles 678,000, population 125,146, Sir A. Kennedy, 1.5,000; Tasmania: square miles 26,215, population, 101,785, Frcdk. A. Weld, L 3,500 ; New Zealand, square miles 100,259, population 375,856% Marquis Noraianby, L 5,000 ; Fiji : square miles 7,403, population 100,000, Sir Arthur Gordon, L 5,000.

*New Zealand’s population by last census is now 414,171.

In addition to the above-mentioned salarv of LSOOO, the Governor of New Zealand is, by the Civil List Amendment Act of 1873, allowed an annual sura of L 1.700 in lieu of payment of salaries and expenses of his establishment—this is termed “establishment allowance.” There is also another sum of LIOOO fixed by the same Act as an allowance in lieu of travelling expenses of the Governor, and hia family, officers, and servants—and this is termed “ travelling allowance,” The full amount of the salary and allowances is thus L 7500. These allowances for the other Governors enumerated in the foregoing list are, of course, not included in the sums specified ; and in some at least of the colonies are made the subject of an annual vote, as was the practice here up to 1873, prior to which the details of trilling expenses connected with Sir George Bowen’s household economy, from the repairs |of a groom’s livery to the price of a new cradle, or a requisition for bed and table linen, caused occasional debates of such an inquisitorial nature into domestic affairs that it was deemed desirable to prevent their recurrence by adding to the Civil List certain sums for establishment and travelling expenses.