AUSTRALIA’S NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2149, 26 March 1908, Page 4

AUSTRALIA’S NEW GOVER-NOR-GENERAL.

TH.iS KAHL UK DUDLEY

Tin' following particulars coneeriiinuc tin' newly appointed (lovornor(lcnornl of the Australian Commonwealth are taken from “Cassell's Magazine”: • (inly just on the wrong side ot forty, William Humble Ward, .second Karl of Dudley, and sometime Viceroy of Ireland, may yet hope to be again a prominent figure in political life. With charming manner:?, his lordship is one of the last persons to h" accused of exalting himself, but it is a tradition of the family that, except in name, there has never been a Ward who was humble. It is to Lord Dudley’s unfailing tactluluoss, however, that he owes not a little of his rnnid advance. Long before Lord Dudley became an Under Secretary of State, lie interested himself an establishing a Church newspaper. Me has also filloil minor offices of a very different character. One was that of Mayor of the town “from which he derives his title ,a ml the other that ot -Master of the Hounds for title country in which his beautiful seat, \\ it ley Court, is situated. In these positions ho soared himself neither necessary trouble nor necessary expense. A farmer made a complaint that lie hail suffered severely from the mischief (lone to tiis crops by the hounds. The complaint reached the ears ot til© 'Master, the narrator going on ‘to explain that the man was such ~ bad tenant that the matter was not worthy of consideration. ‘I beg v.jur pardon,” said Lord Dudley, ‘•has anv damage been done? ( “Well, vos, but—” 1 think, then,his lordshin rejoined, “that tliero is onlv one thing to be done. LMcaso lot the amount of lus loss bo asceitained, and I will see that it is dav ho received two deputations on the same subject whose views wore diametrically opposed. Later on the two ieadors hannened to meet, anil compared notes. “Oh,” said the one, “the Lord Lieutenant was mute on our side.’’ “Indade,” replied the other, “and that’s just, where ye .-.re mistaken. He was entpirely convinced hv our arguments. As a matter of fact Lord Dudley had not exnre'sed an oninion ; he had only listened with equal attention to each sp c a ker.