OUR GOVERNOR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1498, 27 April 1886, Page 3

OUR GOVERNOR.

With reference to the report of Sir William Jervois’e transference to South Africa, it is worth remembering (says tbe Otago Daily Times) that be laid tbe foundation of bis reputation as a military engineer in that colony, being employed there from 1841 to 1848. In 1842 be acted as Brigade-Major in an expedition against the Boers, and during the three following years was engaged at various frontier stations, making roads, building bridges, and establishing military posts. In 1845, having been appointed Adjutant to the Royal Engineers, he accompanied tbe Chief Engineer over the whole frontier of tbe Cape Colony and the settlement of Natal, and early in 1846 he was major of Brigade to the garrison of Cape Town, until the arrival of Sir R, Pottinger as Governor, and Sir G. Berkeley, as Commander-in-Chief, with whom he proceeded to the frontier against the Kaffirs. Daring tbe Kaffir war be made a military surrey and map of Kaffraria, a work of great difficulty, tbe able execution of which marked him as a coming man. His South African experience, the generally expressed desire for a military governor at tbe Cape, and the Radical opinions of Sir William Jervois in English politics, all lend probability to the report that the Government have offered him what is at the present moment by far the most difficult and dangerous of Colonial governorships.