NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 189, 9 February 1914, Page 5

NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

FOR AUSTRALIA. 1 NEWSPAPER TRIBUTES. Hy Cable—Press Association—Copyright . ■ London, February 7. The Right Honorable Jtouald Craufurd '» Mun ro-Ferguson, P. 0., II.P for Leith, | lias been appointed Governor-General of | Australia. . 'V [Mr. Munro-Ferguson. who. is S3 ill years of age, was educated for th» '7 army, and liokl a commission in thg stj Grenadier Guards. He has been <i \ Member of Parliament for the Leith 'l| Burghs since 188<i. In 1880 lie married Lady Helen Blackwood, daughter of the . Marquis of Dufl'erin and sister of Lady "■% Plunket. lie owns about i'O.OOft acres of hmd.l - 'j&l London, February 7. '•* Received 8, fl.o p.m. •" ' The newspapers pay personal tributes - 5 to the Right Honorable Munro-Fergnsoi - J* 1 as an independent politician and strong % Imperialist. They congratulate the .! Commonwealth on the suitability of tiio 1 appointment. « The Daily Graphic sayß it is stated the Goverment's land policy bail rendercd Mr. Munro-Fergmon's continued support of the official Liberal policy im- . '■ % possible, and his resignation was lore- £ shadowed in various quartere. He was never full of sympathy for the Govern- I § mcnt, and but for liis opposition to many, -pg provisions of the Scottish Land Bill, he " would have succeeded Mr. Sinclair iib s! Secretary for Scotland. ,*,J