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 The Right Rev. G. W. Kennion, D.D,, Lord Bishop of Adelaide. HE vacancy in the See of Adelaide caused by the resignation of the late Bishop Short having been offered to, 4Uid accepted by the Eev. G. W. Kennion, D.D., Vicar of All Saints, Horton, that gentleman left the parish in which he had so long and faithfully laboured, much to the regret of all classes, and embarked by the B.M.S. Parramatta for South Australia, which he reached on March 10, 1883. From the Bradford Daily Telegraph we extract the following account of Bishop Kennion's history:—"He is the eldest son of Geo. Kennion, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P., and of Catherine Elfrida, second daughter of John Fordyce, Esq., of Ayton Castle, N.B., and was born at Harrogate, in 1845, and educated at Eton and at Oriel College, Oxford. At the latter he took the B.A. degree in 1867, and that of M.A. in 1871. The degree of D.D., honoris causa, was recently conferred upon him by the University on his appointment to the Bishopric. On leaving college, Mr. Kennion was in 1869 appointed chaplain and private secretary to the Bishop of Tuam, but did not continue in this position long, becoming the following year curate at Doncaster under the Rev. Dr. Pigou, then vicar of that town. Shortly after going to Doncaster he was ordained priest in the parish church there by the Archbishop of York, and in 1871 was chosen diocesan inspector of schools, on the occasion of the Education Act of 1870 coming into operation. His duties in regard to this office were discharged with ability until 1873, when on the nomination of Mr. Gladstone he was appointed by the Crown to the vicarage of St. Paul's, Sculcoates, Hull, to which was attached a rapidly growing parish with a population of over 12,000. In 1876 he was nominated to the living of All Saints, Horton, by the patron and builder of the church, Mr. F. S. Powell. After going to Bradford Mr. Kennion