SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 246, 8 December 1847, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

The New Governor of South Australia. — Our Adelaide contemporary the Observer, speaking of the new Governor of South Australia says:— 'His Excellency's successor, in the government is Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, Knt., Lieutenant-Go-vernor of the Eastern Districts of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, who has not heen many months in that government, and is considered an able and a rising man. He formerly occupied an office tantamount to that of Colonial Secretary in British Guiana, and there displayed official ability and conduct which procured him the approbation of the Home Government, the honour of knighthood, and placed him on the high road to preferment. In the South African papers, Sir H. E. F. Young's acts of administration are mentioned in terms ot warm commendation. His official appointment to this province appeared in the London Gazette of the 1 Ith June, and as his instructions are to proceed to the new seat of Government with all convenient speed, he may be daily looked for. The general prepossession here, as elsewhere, is in favour of a married civilian, as a Governor of a remote British dependency like South Australia, but as a choice is not permitted to the colonists, they must even be content with a ruler of her Majesty's selection ; and, as in the present instance, the probability is, that the new Lieutenant-Go-vernor will be accompanied by his sister, the widow of General Pcake, who accompanied him to Graham's Town, our leading colonists may hope to see the hospitalities of Government House occasionally dispensed to thei*- wives and daughters by an accomplished lady closely allied to her Majesty's representative. '-S.M.Herald.