LORD GLASGOW

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 128, 3 June 1919, Page 2

LORD GLASGOW

MEMOIRS OF AN EX-GOVERNOR

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 4th April. Messrs. T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh, have just published, at a guinea, "The Memoirs ot the Seventh Earl of^ Glasgow," which are edited by Com-' mander F. M. Norman, 8.N., and were first printed for private circulation last year. Unfortunately, the period which Lord Glasgow spent as Governor of New Zealand, 1892-97, is passed over in a few pages, which are chiefly devoted to one or two voyages made by His Excellency in the Islands. The editor remarks that the Governorship was a brilliant success and of the utmost interest to the Government. "Lord and Lady Glasgow were people after the heart of the people of A Tew Zealand, among whom they were deservedly highly popular." One of tho voyages described in the volume was undertaken to the Cook Islands in 1894 in the Hinemoa. On this occasion Lord Glasgow hoisted the flag of the Cook Island Group, which had been approved by the British Government, and he had a glimpse of a most interesting experiment, that "which is being made by Mr. Moss, the Kesident, namely, of making the Cook Islanders a free, self-governing race under the protectorate of Great Britain." The other voyaga was made in the Hinemoa the following year to tho outlying islands to the south of New Zealand, the party including also Lady Glasgow, Major Elliot, Sir James Hector, Professor Parker (Dunedin), Commander Edwin, 11. N., Sir Arthur Douglas, Mr. G. Dennistonn (Peel Forest), Dr. Collins, and Mr. G. Laing Meason.