in the appointment of Lord Tennyson to the Gorernorship of South Australia in succession to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton was not quite expected even by Mr. Cham-Derlain's warmest admirers, and makes the nomination all the more suggestive. If it was possible to criticise Earl Beauchamp's appointment on the score of youth, this is not the ease with Lord Tennyson who is in his forty-eighth year. Hitherto his life has been almost as retired as his father's, He has not the poet's expression of com: manding intellectuality especially in the eye features of Innguage, but the likeness to the Laureate in his hest portrait, that by Mrs, Cameron, the Indy amateur photozeapher who wasa neighbour at Farringford, is indisputable. He acted as his father's secretary during the later years of the first Lord Tennyson's life and brought out the life of the poet two years ago. In that_work the realisation of the ideal an Empire by the most intimate union of every part of our British Empire" was pointed out as one of the chief desires of the poet's life, The son has now an opportunity of aiding in the realisation of this aim and the cable message which arrived yesterday from Australia announeing that the Premiers' Conference had arrived at a federal agreement is a must spacious coincidence and a good omen for his success.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.