SIR GEORGE GREY'S SUCCESSOR.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3178, 24 September 1867, Page 3

SIR GEORGE GREY'S SUCCESSOR.

Who w to be Sir George Grey'a succeisor ? This question has been answered by the Sc-TiTflBN Cross, which says that the late Governor «f Vancouver leland, Mr. Kennedy, will succeed Sir George Greyin the Gove-norship of New Zealand. Supposing the Cross to be correctly informed, the ieply suggests another question : —Who is Mr. Kennedy? There was a Mr. Kennedy who accompanied the late Earl Durham on his mission to Canada in 1838, along with, the late Mr. Charles-'Buller and Mr. Gibbon Wakefield ; and if this is the »me gentleman, though, he has not yet had the Governorship of any important colony, he is conversant with those principles of colonial government and colonisation which Earl Durham's report and Mr. Wakefield's works were the means of establishing. He was al. o connected with the writers in the Westminster Review, and, before he went to Canada, was the author of some small poems which attracted attention at the time they were pubb'shcd. Mr. Kennedy did not return with Lord Durhr *n to England, but instead made a tour of a portion of the "United States, and, though a fearful bank prnic was raging at the time, he could not withold hifl admiration of the result! of democratic institutions. He left Now York for Liverpool in the summer of 1839, and shortly after his return to England was married to a lady to whom he had been lon* engaged. If this is the Mr. Kennedy who is to succesd Sir George Grey, he must be verging on sixty, and his slow promotion may be owing to the fact that he is neither a naval nor a military officer, nor yet a member of Parliament, but a literary man, and perhaps one of the first of the class who has ever found favour in Downing-stretst. — Jfiairarapa Mercury.