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 Jas. Fergusson, some time Governor of South Australia, to whom he was related on his mother's side." Dr. Kennion is apparently peculiarly fitted by nature for the delicate and onerous duties which fall to the lot of a minister desirous of faithfully discharging his duties. His polished eloquence serves to inculcate both from the pulpit and in private conversation the lessons he desires to teach, and has gained him many admirers here and elsewhere. Open and straightforward in character, liberal in opinion, and an advanced theologian, this colony may be congratulated on the possession of such an ecclesiastic, who has already in his life and work given abundant evidences that he will faithfully keep the charge committed to him, and in course of time show equally satisfactory results to those which his predecessor accomplished.

Henry James Scott, HE only son of Daniel Scott, of Aberdour, Fifeshire, born January 13, 1848, and arrived here May 28, 1880, Accompanied by his wife and family. Shortly after his arrival the private exhibition of M. Joubert was held in Adelaide, and many representatives of the national industries of Europe were then on their way home from the Sydney and Melbourne Exhibitions. To most of these gentlemen Mr. Scott was known, and by their advice, and at the request of some of the principal business firms here, he undertook to represent South Australian exhibitors at the Exhibition held in Perth, Western Australia. In the following year he again successfully represented South Australia at the New Zealand Exhibition, Christchurch, to the satisfaction of the exhibitors, and so gained their confidence, that when the Commission appointed for the Calcutta International Exhibition in 1883 met, he was unanimously nominated the "Agent for South Australia at the Exhibition," and the Government