THE NEW GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA.

Kumara Times, Issue 2373, 7 April 1884, Page 3

THE NEW GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA.

Sir Henry Brougham Loch, K.C.B, at preseut holding the position of ono of the Queen's Commissioners for Woods and Forests in 'Britain, has been appointed to the vacant Governorship of Victoria. "We learn from " Men of the Time " that he is " a younger son of the late James Loch, Esq. (many years member for the Wick burghs), was bom io 1827, entered the Bengal Cavalry in 1844, and served with distinction in the campaign on the Sutlej. He afterwards held the second command of 'Skinner's Horse,' and, returning to England in 1854, was sent out to Bulgaria, under General Beatson, to organise the Turkish cavalry; accompanied the army to the Crimea, and witnessed the battle of Alma. Having retired from the Indian array, he was attached iu 1857 to the late Lord Elgin's special mission to China. Brought Home the treaty with Japan, signed at Jeddo, August 26, 1858, and accompanied the late Lord Elgin od his second special mission to China as his private secretary. During the advance upon Pekin he was taken prisoner by the Chinese, and, having been released, brought back to England Lord Elgin's dispatches and the convention signed October 24, 1860, which put an end to hostilities in China. In 1861 he was made a C. 8., and in 1863 was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man. This position he held for many years."