Premier of South Australia.
Son of the late Sir George S. Kingston, Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly. Born at Adelaide in 1850; studied Law, and is a Q.C. and Attorney-General for the Colony. Entered the Colonial Parliament in 1881, and has represented the same constituency (West Adelaide) ever since. He became Prime Minister in 1893, and is President of the Federal Convention.
From a Photograph] [by Elliott & Fry.
THE RIGHT HON. SIR WILLIAM V. WHITEWAY, Q.C.,
Premier of Newfoundland.
Younger son of the late Thomas Whiteway, of Buckyett, Devon; born 1828. He went as a boy to Newfoundland, and, studying law, became a barrister at St. John’s in 1852, and Q.C. in 1862. Appointed Speaker of the House of Assembly in 1864–69; he has since held every ministerial office in the gift of the Newfoundland Government, which he has also represented on numerous delegations and commissions. Attorney General and Premier of the Colony, 1878–84, 1889–94, and since 1895.
There was a great bonfire display in Scotland. For a fortnight ten Highland ponies had been carrying materials up Ben Nevis. The brush-wood came chiefly from the neighbouring deer forest in Glen Nevis, and many loads of peat from the Distillery mosses. A shower of “May” rockets gave the signal to the bonfires on the neighbouring hills to make ready, and a few seconds before 10.30 Mrs. Cameron Campbell of Monzie touched the wire at the foot of the hill, and on the stroke of time the huge beacon burst into a brilliant sheet of flame, and was answered from hill after hill throughout Scotland. At the same time the following telegrams were despatched:—
“To Big Ben, Westminster:—‘Our Highland hills in blazing bonfires join with London’s illuminations in honour of our Queen.’” “To the Lord Mayor, London:—‘O’er loch and glen our bonfires shine to greet with you our Queen.’”
In all two thousand five hundred bonfires that had been erected on as many eminences throughout the United Kingdom were set alight at about half-past ten o’clock at night, and as the fires of these great beacons died down there faded away into history the greatest day of rejoicing the Anglo-Saxon has known since the glad news arrived that the conqueror of Europe had been overthrown at Waterloo.