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 while in office framed and carried through the Provincial Legislature an education ordinance providing for a non-sectarian system of education, which was worked with most successful results; and the Canterbury College, School of Agriculture, and other educational institutions were, on his proposals, established and endowed with over 300,000 acres of land. Amongst other offices which Mr. Kennaway held in the colony may be named Commissioner of Crown Lands, Governor of the Canterbury College, and member of the Board of Education. In 1874 he accepted the appointment of Secretary to the Department of the Agent-General in London, and this office he still holds. Mr. Kennaway was one of the commissioners for New Zealand for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886; and in 1889, for his services in connection with the International Exhibition at Paris, he received from the French Government the distinction of Officier d'Académie. On Jan. 1st, 1891, he was created C.M.G.

Kennedy, Sir Arthur Edward, G.C.M.G., C.B., fourth son of Hugh Kennedy, of Cultra, co. Down, by Grace Dorothea, only child of John Hughes, was born in 1809. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and entered the army as ensign in 1827. He became lieutenant in 1832, and captain in the 68th Light Infantry in 1840, retiring from the army in 1848. In 1846 he became County Inspector of the Board of Works, and served under Sir John Burgoyne in the Irish famine as Relief Inspector, and subsequently as Poor Law Inspector, until the office was abolished in 1851. In 1852 he was appointed Governor of the Gambia, and transferred in the same year to Sierra Leone, serving as Consul-General in the Sherboro' country in 1854. He was Governor of Western Australia from June 1855 to Feb. 1862, and in the next year became Governor of Vancouver's Island, and of the West African Settlements in Nov. 1867, in which year he was knighted. Concurrently he acted at Sierra Leone as Judge in the Courts of Mixed Commission, with special instructions and powers for the abolition of the slave trade. His next governorship was at Hong Kong in 1872, where he continued to act until 1877, when he was appointed Governor of Queensland, assuming office in April. Sir Arthur, who was created C.B. in 1862 and G.C.M.G. in 1871, resigned the Governorship of Queensland in 1883, and died at Aden on his passage home to England on June 3rd, 1883. In 1839 he married Georgina, daughter of J. Macartney.

Kennerley, Hon. Alfred, was Premier of Tasmania without office from August 1873 to July 1876. He is still a member of the Executive Council, of which he was sworn a member on August 4th, 1873.

Kennion, Right Rev. George Wyndham, D.D., Bishop of Adelaide, son of the late George Kennion, M.D., of Harrogate, Yorkshire, by his marriage with Catherine Elfrida, daughter of the late John Fordyce, of Ayton Castle, co. Berwick, N.B., was born at Harrogate on Sept. 5th, 1845, and educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1867, M.A. in 1871, and D.D. (honorary) in 1882. He was ordained deacon in 1869, priest in 1870, and was formerly domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Tuam. Dr. Kennion, who was for some time curate of Doncaster and Diocesan Inspector of Schools for the Archdiocese of York, was appointed vicar of St. Paul's, Hull, in 1873; vicar of All Saints', Bradford, in 1876; and was consecrated Bishop of Adelaide, in Westminster Abbey, in 1882. In the same year he married Henrietta Duncan, daughter of the late Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, Bart., and sister of the Right Hon., Bart, M.P., formerly Governor of South Australia. Dr. Kennion took part in the controversy arising out of a statement made by Judge of Adelaide as to an alleged assertion of Dr. Magee, then Bishop of Peterborough, on the fallibility of the Scriptures, which the latter warmly denied. He also published in the local press some interesting reminiscences of the late Archbishop Thomson of York. Bishop Kennion had the honorary degree of M.A. conferred on him by the University of Adelaide in 1883, and has been a member of the Council since Nov. 1887.

Kerferd, Hon. George BiscoeBriscoe [sic], late Puisne Judge, Victoria, was born in Liverpool in 1831, and in 1852 emigrated to Victoria, where he was appointed a territorial magistrate in 1856. Having engaged in business at Beechworth, he was four times mayor of the town, and was elected to 258