THE NEW GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND.
The following notice with reference to the newly-appointed Governor of New Zealand, Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, is taken from " Men of the Times” :— Jervois, Lieutenant-Colonel, Sir William William Francis, C. 8., G.C.M.G., eldest sori of the late General Jervois, K.H., Colonel of the 70th Regiment, was born at Cowos, Isle of Wight, in 1821, and having passed at Woolwich, entered the Royal Engineers in 1839. Having completed the usual conrae of study at Chatham, he was ordered to the ? Cape of Good Hope in 1841, and was actively employed in that colony for upwards of seven years in various capacities. In 1842 he acted as brigade major in an expedition against the Boers, and during th*
ikrec following wan wm prefoMimUy «»• Sscl it the yinoua frontier sUtleiis. mtk roads. building bridges, and establishing tary posts. In 1845, having boen appointed Acting Adjutant to the Koval JEn gineers, he aecompanied the Chid Engineer over the whole frontier of the Cape Colony and the settlement Of Natal, and in the early part of 1848 he was major of brigade to the garrison of Cape Town, until the arrival of Sir H. Pottinger as governor, and Sir G. Berkeley as eommander-in-chief, with whom he proceed to the frontier against the Kaffirs. During the Kaffir war he made a military survey and map of Kaffraria, a work of great difficulty ably executed. From 1848 till 1852Jie commanded a company of Sappers at Woolwich and Chatham) in the latter year wm ordered to the island of Alderney for the purpose of designing plans for the forth neations, and the superintendence of their execution, and in 1854 was promoted to the rank of major. In 1855 Major Jervois wm | transferred to the London district m Com. ! mandlng Royal Engineers and wm nominated i by Lord Panmure a member of a Committee | on Barrack Accommodation, whose labours I contributed much to the improvements which : have of late years been effected in the eon- ■ struetion of barracks, as well as in the sani. . tary condition of our troops. In 1856 he ■ Wm appointed to the post of Assistant In. i spector-General of Fortifications, under Sir i John Burgoyne, and on the appoifftment of j a Royal Commission to report on the defences of the country, he was selected by i the Government to be secretary. He was a ! member of the Special Committee on the i Application of Iron to Ships and Fortifications. In 1861 he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, in 1862 was appointed « Director of Fortifications under Sir urgoyne, and in 1863 was nominated a Companion of the Bath, and was sent on a special mission to report on the defences of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, on which occMion he visited the fortifications at the principal ports on the seaboard of the United States. In 1864 he was again sent on a special mission to Canada to confer with the Canadian Government on the ques- , tion of the defence of that province. On his | return to England his report was laid before j Parliament, and the Imperial Government I undertook to carry out the defences of ' Quebec on the plan recommended by him. | In addition to his post at the War Office, I Colonel Jervois was Secretary to the Perma- i nent Defence Committee, under the presi- : dency of the Duke of Cambridge. He was j created a Knight Commander of the Order | of St. Michael and George in 1884, and was I appointed Governor of the Straits Settle- | ments 7th April, 1875. The latter post he i held till June, 1877, when he was appointed j Governor of South Australia. He was I nominated a G.C.M.G. in 1878.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1216, 4 December 1882, Page 2
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622THE NEW GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1216, 4 December 1882, Page 2
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