SIR GEORGE GREY’S SUCCESSOR.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 37, 16 September 1867, Page 3

SIR GEORGE GREY’S SUCCESSOR.

M ho is to be Sir George Grey's successor ? This question has been answered by the “ Southern Cross” which says that the late Governor of Vancouver Island, Mr Kennedy, will succeed Sir George Grey in the Govership of New Zealand. Supposing the “ Cross” to be correctly informed, the reply 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 Buffer and Mr Gibbon Wakefield, .and if this is the same gentleman, though he has not yet had the Governorship of any important colony, he is conversant with those principles of colonial government and colonization which Earl Durham’s report and Mr Wakefield’s works were the TOeansjof establishing. He was also connected with the writers in the “"Westminister Review,” and before he went to Canada, was the author of some small poems which attracted attention at the time they were published, Mr Kennedy did not return with Lord Durham to England, but instead made a tour of a portion of the United States, and, though a fearful bank panic was raging at the time, he could not withold his admiration of the results of democratic institutions. He left New 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 long engaged. If this is the Mr Kennedy who is to succeed 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 or 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 favor in Downing-street.