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 a lord-in-waiting to the Queen, in 1886 captain of the Yeomen of the Guard and a Privy Councillor, and in 1889 Governor of South Australia, in succession to Sir. In the latter year he was created G.C.M.G., and assumed the Governorship in April. Lord Kintore is an LL.D. of Aberdeen, and was made an Hon. LL.D. of Adelaide University in 1889. Early in 1891 Lord Kintore undertook the arduous journey from Port Darwin to Adelaide, across the continent, which he successfully achieved.

Knight, Godfrey C., J.P., was appointed Secretary of the Board of Education of Western Australia in 1878, Clerk of the Legislative Council in the same year, Clerk to the Registrar of the Supreme Court in 1879, Associate to Mr. Justice Stone in 1884, Acting Resident Magistrate at FreemantleFremantle [sic], in 1886, and Registrar-General, and Registrar of Patents in 1886. Mr. Knight was acting Police Magistrate at Perth, and Resident Magistrate at the Swan in 1888, as locum tenens for Mr. G. W. Leake. He died on Sept. 16th, 1890.

Knight, John George, Government Resident of the Northern Territory of South Australia, after a successful career as an architect in Melbourne, during which period he designed the Parliament Houses and the Public Library, entered the South Australian Government service in Sept 1873, and in April 1880 was appointed clerk of the Local Court, Government statist, clerk of the Licensing Bench and public trustee at Port Darwin. He was afterwards created a stipendiary magistrate, and represented the Territory at the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition in 1887. He was a member of the South Australian Commission for the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition in 1888. When Mr. Parsons retired from the position of Government Resident of the Territory, Mr. Knight was appointed to act until a successor was nominated. He was permanently appointed to the position on July 13th, 1890, and died in 1891.

Knight, Maggie, the popular colonial actress, was born in Auckland, N.Z., where her father, Mr. James Knight, managed the theatre. Migrating to Melbourne, Miss Knight soon took up a foremost position, and in Sydney, Adelaide, and Brisbane gave proofs that she is to be fairly ranked among the most useful and versatile of colonial stock actresses. She married Mr. H. R. Jewett, an actor, in 1885, in Tasmania. She travelled through the United States, and visited England, where she took Miss Kate Rorke's part in Held by the Enemy, supporting Mr. Charles Warner at the Grand Theatre. Returning to Australia, Miss Knight has since been "leading lady" in Mr. Bland Holt's company.

Knight, Thomas John, youngest son of William Young Knight and Elizabeth (née Claridge) his wife, was born at Birlingham, near Pershore, Worcestershire, Nov. 1st, 1804. He entered at the Middle Temple, and was called to the bar on Nov. 25th, 1831. In 1841 he was appointed Chairman of Quarter Sessions in Jamaica, and held that appointment and the office of Judge of Common Pleas until 1844, when he returned to England invalided. In 1845 he emigrated with his family to Tasmania, and practised at the bar in Hobart, being the first barrister in Tasmania appointed Queen's Counsel. On the introduction of responsible government he was elected to the House of Assembly, and held the office of Solicitor-General in the Ministry from 1857 to 1860, in which year, on Mr. Smith's elevation to the Bench, he became Attorney-General under Mr. as Premier, and held the office until Feb. 4th, 1861. Mr. Knight returned to England in 1865, and died at Richmond, Surrey, on April 26th, 1870. He married Margaret, daughter of the Rev. William Ward.

Krichauff, Hon. Friedrich Edouard Heinrich Wulf, M.L.C., J.P., son of Carl Krichauff and Julie von Bertouch his wife, a judge of the Supreme Court of the Duchy of Schleswig, was born at Schleswig on Dec. 15th, 1824. Having passed through the State colleges of Schleswig and Husum, he served three years as an apprentice at the botanic gardens in connection with the University of Kiel In 1846 he matriculated at the Berlin University, and passed first class at examinations in Kiel. As a result he was allowed a stipend by the Danish Government to travel as gardener and botanist; but the war of 1848 prevented him from enjoying this privilege. Mr. Krichauff went to South Australia in Dec. 1848, and settled at Bugle Ranges in the south. For many years he was the chairman of the Macclesfield District Council, as well 263