DEATH OF THE GOVERNOR OF QUEENSLAND.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 867, 12 October 1888, Page 26

DEATH OF THE GOVERNOR OF QUEENSLAND.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (per press association.) Brisbane, October 9. Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of Queensland, was seized with pains in the abdomen, and died suddenly last night of syncope. He was 60 years of age, and had been Governor since March, 1883.

From “ Men of Tho Time ’’ wo learn that Sir Anthony Musgrave, Wflß tfe?

third son of the late Mr Anthony Musgrave, M.D., treasurer of Antigua, and was born in IS2S. He entered as a student at the Inner Temple in 1851, and in tho following year was appointed Treasury Accountant at Antigua. He was nominated Colonial Secretary there in 1854. In October, 1860, he was appointed Administrator of the Colony of Nevis, and in the following April he was transferred to the Island of St Vincent in a similar capacity. Sir A. Musgrave held the Governorship of Newfoundland from 1864 till 1869, when he was appointed Governor of British Columbia. In 1872 he was nominated Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, but was shortly after transferred to the Governorship of South Australia ; this post he held till 1877, when he was transferred to the Island of Jamaica. In' March, 1883, he was appointed to succeed Sir Arthur J. Kennedy in the Governor-Generalship of Queensland. Sir A. Musgrave was nominated a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1871, and was promoted for his long official services to a Knight-Commander-ship of that Order in 1875.