THE NEW GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND.

Lake County Press, Issue 78, 29 November 1872, Page 2

THE NEW GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND.

Late English telegrams confirm tho report which 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 has expired, 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 Fergusson, the present Governor of South Australia, who was born in 1832, and was educated at Jiugby and Oxford. He obtained a commission as captain in the Grenadier Guards, and served in the Crimea ; and at the battle of Inkerman was disabled from further service during the cammember m Ayrshire, and was appointed DeputyLieutenant of the county, and LieutColonel of the Ayrshire Militia. Subsequently Lord Derby, recognising his busiuess abilities, made him UnderSecretary of the Home Department, which office he filled when created Governor of South Australia towards the end of 186 S. Sir James Fergusson is a member of the Established Church of Scotland, and one of the most influential laymen in it. He has been a frequent 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 for raising the stipends of parish ministers. The family, for many years, have been staunch Presbyterians. Sir James married, in 1859, Edith Christina, daughter of the late Marquis of Dalhousie, who was Governor-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 sod / born in 1R65, and two daughters born since.