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  post rank in Feb. 1830, and, retiring from the navy, settled permanently in New South Wales, where he had been appointed in his absence in 1829 a member of the Legislative Council, and where he acted as manager of the Australian Agricultural Company. He was gazetted to the rank of rear-admiral in 1855, and died in February of the following year. In 1817 he married Harriet, second daughter of Christopher Lethbridge, of Madford, Launceston, England.  King, Thomas, son of William King of Adelaide, was for many years a member of the firm of Barrow & King, proprietors of the South Australian Advertiser, Chronicle, and Express. He represented Sturt in the Assembly from 1876 to 1881, and from 1881 to 1884, and was Minister of Education in the Ministry from Oct. 1878 to March 1881. Having come to England as one of the South Australian commissioners to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition held at South Kensington in 1886, he died at Bayswater on Nov. 20th of that year.  King, Thomas Mulhall, was born in London on August 4th, 1842, and arrived in Melbourne in Oct. 1859. In Oct. 1862 be came to Queensland, and in Sept. 1863 entered the Customs service of that colony. After various promotions he was appointed in Sept. 1882 Collector of Customs, and in August 1888 became, in addition, Chief Inspector of Distilleries. Since August 1884 he has been a member of the Immigration Board, Brisbane.  Kingsley, Henry, son of the Rev. Charles Kingsley, rector of Chelsea, and a brother of Charles Kingsley, the author of "Westward Ho!" was born in 1830, and educated at King's College, London, and Worcester College, Oxford, which he left without taking a degree to go to Australia in 1853. He remained five years in the colonies, and as the outcome of his experiences produced what is considered the best novel of Australian life, "Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn," published in 1859. In "The Hillyars and the Burtons," too, he drew on the same sources of inspiration. The latter was published in 1865. Mr. Kingsley was present as a war correspondent at the battle of Sedan, and died in 1876.  Kingston, Hon. Charles Cameron, M.P., Q.C., son of the late Sir George Strickland Kingston, sometime Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of South Australia, by his marriage with Ludovina Catherine da Silva, daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Charles G. Cameron, is a member of the legal firm of Kingston & Hall, of Adelaide, and has represented West Adelaide in the Assembly since 1881. Mr. Kingston was born at Adelaide on Oct. 22nd, 1850, and educated at the Adelaide Educational Institution, where he highly distinguished himself. On leaving school he was articled to Mr., and was admitted to the Bar in 1873. He remained with Mr. Way till that gentleman became Chief Justice in 1876, when he commenced practice on his own account as a barrister and solicitor, and in 1889 became Q.C. As a politician Mr. Kingston has consistently advocated Protection and payment of members, and has closely identified himself with all social reforms having for their object the amelioration of the condition of the working classes. He held office as Attorney-General in Mr. 's Ministry from June 1884 to June 1885, and in Mr. 's first Government from June 1887 to June 1889. Whilst a member of the Government he drafted the bill for the imposition of land and income taxes which was passed by Parliament, and is still the taw of the land. As Attorney-General in the same Government he introduced and carried an Employers' Liability Bill, which is equal in liberality to any similar measure in force in Australia. He also prepared and succeeded in carrying a bill to amend the laws of inheritance securing to the children of married women dying intestate a share in the estate of their mother. Whilst a member of the Playford Government he rendered valuable assistance in securing the adoption of a protective tariff and payment of members. He is a strong opponent of Chinese immigration, and with Mr. Playford he represented South Australia at the Australasian conference on the subject held at the instance of South Australia in Sydney in 1888, when he drafted the bill for the regulation of the matter which was agreed to by all the colonies represented, with the exception only of Tasmania. He subsequently took a leading part in securing the adoption of the bill by the South Australian  261