THE NEW GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 252, 28 November 1872, Page 5

THE NEW GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND.

Our English telegrams to-day confirm the report that was circulated some four months ago that Sir George Bowen was to be transferred to Victoria as the successor of Viscount Canterbury, whose term of service expired early in the year, and who it is known is anxious to go home to take possession of his English estates' and seat in the House of Lords. Sir George will be succeeded in the Governorship of this Colony by the Hon. Sir James Pergusson, the present Governor of South Australia, who was born in 1832, and was educated at Rugby and Oxford. He obtained a commission as captain in the Grenadier Guards, and served in the Crimea; and at the battle of Inkermanwas disabled from further service during the campaign i He was afterwards elected a member of Parliament for the county of Ayrshire, and was appointed P,epfcty<J^euteßant of the county, arid Lieat. -Colonel .of" the Ayrshire Militia. Subsequently ' ord Derby, recognising hia business abilities, made him Under- ecretary of the Home Department, which office he filled when created Governor of South Australia towards the end of 1868. Sir James Pergusson is a member of the Established, Church of cotland, and one of the most influential laymen in it. He has been afrequent attendant at the General Assembly, and has freely given his services to its business committees and was till shortly before he left England chairman of a national committee foFTaising the stipends of the parish ministers. rr J he. family, for many years, have beenstauneh Presbyterians. {iir James married in 1859 Edith Christina, daughter of the late Marquis of Dalhouaie, who was Go-vernor-General of India from 1847 to 1856,

By Lady Fergusson, who died a few months '. ago, universally respected in South Australia, he has three children a son born in < 1865,- and two daughters born since. —Star, 18th. • :