SIR G.S. BADEN-POWELL.

Evening Post, Volume XLII, Issue 128, 26 November 1891, Page 2

SIR G.S. BADEN-POWELL.

It would almost seem as if the unpply of promisingyoungCflnsdrvatlvcPecra.anxious to obtain InipeWai.f'xp'orie'ilb'o at doiohidl expense U running short, and that Lord Knutsford is likely to be compelled to fall back on Commoners of ability to recruit Colonial Governors from. Sir George Smyth BadenPowell, who is now talked of for New Zoaland, is a man of admitted natural ability and large offioial oxperienco, especially in regard to colonial affairs. Ho was Private Secretary to Sir GeOrga Bowon -\vhoh Govornor of Victoria during tho political crisis thoro in 1877-8. He htts boett in the West Indies as it Sugar Bduntids Commissioner, and in Malta as a Boundary Commissioner i[by whifio he 1 etti'hed Ills title), and in Bechuanaland, where ho rendered good service to Sir C. Warren. Lately ho has been engaged in Canada in referonco to tho Behring Sea Sealing dispute. Ho is a voluminous magazine writer and a keen spOrtsnlan. He would not be by any means an unacceptable Governor for New Zealand, uuloss indeed he is too aotive-minded a politician to rest loi)qc o'ontetit, w»ih playing dittniri}, iU ii (jOott Goverridr should do. Ho is known to havo long aimed at a colonial appointment, and his friends have named him in connection with, almost overy Governorship wh,leh, r liA9 f allot) VitcHtft eineo tho Gorisertatlva Government entered office. In fact he has beon named almost as frequently for colonial political appointments as Bishop Barry has been for Episaopal proforaent of late years. Tho present rumour may prove as groundless as others have done.