THE NEW GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND.

Evening Star, Issue 3042, 18 November 1872, Page 2

THE NEW GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND.

Our English telegrams to-day confirm the report that was circulated some four months ago that Sir George Bowen was to bo transferred to Victoria ns tho successor of Viscount Canterbury, whose term of service expired early in the year, and who it is known is anxious to go home to take possession of his English estates and seat in the House of Lords. Sir George will be succeeded in the Governorship of this Colony by the Hon, Sir Janies Fergusson, the present Governor of South Australia, who was born in 1832, and was educated at Rugby and .Oxford. He obtained a commission £3 captain in the Grenadier Guards, and served m fee Crimea; and at the battle of inkerman was .disfelpd from further service during fee campaign He was afterwards elected a .member of .Parliament for the county of Ayrshire, uud was appointed Deputy-Lieutenant of fee county, and Lieut.-Colonel,of the Ayrfeire Militia. Subsequently ,ord Derby, recognising his buhiness abilities, made him Under- coretary of the Homo Department, which office he .filled >vhen created Governor of South Australia towards the end of 1868. Sir James Fergusson a member pf the Established Church of Scotland, and one of the most influential laymen in it. Ho has Ijpcn a frequent attendant at feeGenerai Assembly, and ,has freely given his services to its business committees, and was till shortly before he left England chairman of a national committee for raising the stipends of tho parish ministers. The family, for many years, have beeustaunch Presbyterians. Sir James married in 1859 Edith Christina, daughter of the late Marquis,of Dalhousie, who was Go-vernor-General pf India from 184/ to 1856. By Lady Fergusson, who died a few months ago, universally respected in South Australia, he has three,children- p son born in 1865, and two daughters bqrn since.