Donald, Navarre, Redbank, Moonambel and Landsborough. Population 16,009. Karabeal, Vict. A village in a sheep farming district, 18 miles from Hamilton, and 214 miles W. from Melbourne. Karkarooc, Vict. One of the new counties; area, 5933 square miles; part of the Wimmera district; bounded on the N. by New South Wales, on the W. by Millewa and Weeah, on the S. by Borung, and on the E. by Tatchera; watered by the Murray and its ana branches, Lake Tyrrel, and the overflow of the Avoca, the Yarriamback creek and Lake Coorong. Population 3433. Karridale, W.A. The headquarters of Augusta timber station, and the terminus of the tram-lines which run into the bush, to Boranup, to Hamelin Harbour and Flinders Bay. The climate is amongst the finest in the colony. Karuah, N.S.W. A river rising in one of the peaks of the Liverpool range, and falling into the sea at Port Stephens. Katharine (Northern Territory), S.A. A station on the Overland Telegraph, 1765 miles from Adelaide. Katikati, N.Ζ. An agricultural settlement, 154 miles from city of Auckland. There is a large quantity of land under cultivation in the district, which is connected by coach with Tauranga on the one hand and Grahamstown and Te Aroha on the other. Katoomba, N.S.W. A township in a mining district, and railway station on the western line, 66 miles W. of Sydney; on one of the most elevated portions of the line, 3330 feet above sea-level, and being on eastern slope of the Blue Mountains, commands one of the most extensive views in New South Wales. Population 2000. Local newspapers, Katoomba Times and Blue Mountain Express. Kaukapakapa, N.Z. A township in an agricultural district, and railway station, 41 miles N.E. from Auckland and 6 miles from Helensville. Great quantities of kauri timber and gum are exported annually. Population 450. from Dunedin, N.W., and 3 miles from Cromwell, in a deep gloomy gorge of the river Kawarau, which presents scenes of awful and savage grandeur, and is much visited by tourists who wish to see the wild mountain scenery of Western Otago. A coal mine is near here. Kawau, N.Z. An island in the Hauraki Gulf, which for many years was the residence of Sir George Grey, and is now a charming place for yachting and picnics. Kawhia, N.Z. A county on the west coast of the North Island; intersected by the railway from Mokau towards Raglan. Population 308. Kawhia Harbour, N.Z. An inlet on the west coast of the North Island, S. of Aotea Harbour. Kayuga, N.S.W. A township in a farming district on the river Hunter, 4 miles N. of the Muswellbrook railway station and 164 miles N.W. by N. of Sydney. Population 200. Keerweer Cape, Qd., a cape on the E. shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria, was discovered and named by the crew of the Duyfhen in 1606, and was the place from which they left Australia on their return passage to Bantam. Keilli, S.A. A township in an agricultural and pastoral district at the foot of Ingram's Gap, Barunga Ranges, 145 miles N.W. of Adelaide. Nearest railway station, Saddleworth. Population 40. Keilor, Vict. A township on Saltwater River, 10 miles N.W. of Melbourne and 5 miles from Essendon railway station. Population, with district, 596. Kelly Gang. See BUSHRANGERS. Kelly's Point, Tas. A township in an agricultural district 16 miles from Hobart. Daily steamer communication. Kelso, N.S.W. A township in an agricultural and pastoral district and railway station on the eastern bank of Macquarie River, 1 mile from Bathurst, with which it is connected by a substantial bridge, and 143 miles W. of Sydney; 2154 feet above sea-level. Population 550. Kelso, N.Z. A township 99 miles W. from Dunedin and 72 miles from Invercargill; connected by rail with Invercargill and Dunedin by the branch line from Waipahi. Population 300. Kawakawa, N.Z. The centre of a coalmining district, 142 miles N. from Auckland and 14 miles from Russell, with which it is connected by railway to the opposite side of the harbour at Opua. Population 700. Newspaper, Luminary. Kawarau, N.Z. A township 143 miles Kempft, J. H., a Major in the 12th Regiment, administered the government of New South Wales from the departure of Sir William Denison on Jan. 23rd, 1861, till the arrival of Sir John Young on March 21st, 1861. Kempsey, N.S.W. A township and port in a maize-growing district on Macleay River, 280 miles N.E. of Sydney; 30 miles from Macleay River Heads, and is the principal township in Macleay district. Burdekin, the Pioneer, and their tributaries. The coast district is well adapted for the growth of all tropical produce. The principal towns are the ports of Townsville, Mackay and Cardwell, Charters Towers, Milchester and Ravenswood. The extreme S. of the district is crossed by the Central railway from Antimony has been found at Corangala, Withersfield to Main range; and in the Kermadec Group. Area, 8144 acres. Population, with district, 8000. Local Were annexed by the British Govern- journals, Kiama Independent and Rement in 1887. They consist of three principal islands, Macaulay, Curtis and Sunday, in lat. 36° 16′ S., and long. 178° 32' W., and are distant about 500 miles N.E. of New Zealand. They were until recently uninhabited, but are now being settled from New Zealand, by the government of which colony they are ad-lation 200. ministered. 25 miles distant. Communication with Sydney is by steamer direct; nearest railway station, Hexham. Steamers ply daily between Pelican Island and Kempsey. Population 2000. Local newspapers, Macleay Chronicle and Argus. Kempton (or Green Ponds), Tas. A township in an agricultural and pastoral district on Green Ponds rivulet, and within 3 miles of river Jordan, 29 miles N. of Hobart, and 92 miles S. of Launceston. The new railway to Apsley has been opened. Quarter sessions are held here. Population, with district, 1300. Kendall, Thomas, was the first missionary in New Zealand, and was appointed in 1814 by Governor Macquarie to the post of first resident magistrate in New Zealand. Kennedy, Edmund B., an explorer; after being second in command of Mitchell's expedition in 1845, commanded one in 1848, which was sent to survey the country near Cape York, Qd., the colonial sloop Albion remaining at the Cape in order to provide them with provisions. The party landed at Rockingham Bay, and tried to make their way to Cape Cane York. All lost their lives near Weymouth Cape Bay with the exception of two men, who were rescued, and an aboriginal named Jacky Jacky, who made his way to Cape York, after being present at the death of Kennedy. Kennedy, N.S.W. A new county in the centre of the colony; bounded on the N. by the Upper Bogan river, and watered by the Bullock creek. Kennedy District, Qd., is divided into North and South Kennedy; is to the N. of the Leichhardt district; is nearly all inside the tropics; has an area of 53,221 square miles, and a frontage of about 400 miles to the Pacific; contains a large area of pastoral land, the principal sugar-producing districts in the colony, and the important goldfield of Charters Towers; is watered by the N. there is a short line from Mackay to Miramio and Eton, the Northern railway from Townsville to Springs, and the branch to Ravenswood. The geological formation includes almost every variety of rock. Kennedy River, Qd. Rises near the Palmer goldfields, flows in a northerly direction, and falls into Princess Charlotte Bay in Northern Queensland. Kensington, Vict. A suburb and railway station adjoining Flemington, 2 miles N. of Melbourne. Kent, Tas. A county on the south coast with an area of 816,000 acres ; watered by the Huon, Arve and Picton; produces large quantities of fruit and Huon pine. Towns, Folkestone, Franklin, Hythe and Bathurst. Kent, Vict. A mountain in the Divid. ing range, 5129 feet high. Kent, W.A. A county in the S. facing the Southern Ocean, and E. of King George's Sound. Kents Group, Tas. A cluster of islands at the E. entrance to Bass's Straits. Keppel Bay, Qd. A bay on the Pacific coast which receives the waters of the Fitzroy, the river which flows by Rockhampton. Kerang, Vict. A township and railway station on the line from Sandhurst to Swan Hill, on river Loddon, 179 miles N.N.W. of Melbourne, 30 miles from Swan Hill and 14 miles from Koondrook. Irrigation trusts are being formed throughout the district, and when the schemes are completed the farmers will be more independent of the uncertain rainfall. Population 1100. Newspapers, Kerang Times and Observer. Kermadec, Huon de, commanded the Esperance, one of the fleet commanded by D'Entrecasteaux, who was sent out to find traces of La Perouse, and made a survey of Van Diemen's Land in 1792. The river Huon in Tasmania was named after him. porter. Kersbrook, S.A. A small township in an agricultural district, on the Chain of Pond's Creek, 3 miles from the main road, where the coach passes daily to Adelaide, from which it is distant 22 miles N.E. Population 300. Kew, Vict. A prettily situated township 44 miles E. from Melbourne. The Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, supplementing the establishment at Yarra Bend, is here, having 884 beds; also a Roman Catholic college; and Studley Park, 200 acres, is situated W. of the borough. Horse tram connects with tramway at Victoria Bridge. Railway communication with Melbourne. Population 8462. Local newspapers, Kew Express and Ken Mercury. Kewell, Vict. A township in a farming and pastoral district, on Yarriambiac Creek, 21 miles N.E. of Horsham, and 224 miles N.W. of Melbourne. Nearest railway station, Jung Jung, 8 miles. Keyneton, S.A. A township in a wine growing and farming district, on Evandale Creek, a tributary of the North Rhine 60 miles N. of Adelaide. Keys Inlet (Northern Territory), S.A., the estuary of the Fitzmaurice river, runs into the Indian Ocean near the boundary line between the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Kialla, Vict. An agricultural and farming district, 120 miles N.E. of Melbourne. The Broken river forms its northern, and the Goulburn river its western boundary. Nearest railway station, Shepparton. Kiandra, N.S.W. Once an important goldfields township on Eucumbene Creek, a tributary of Snowy River; 4640 feet above sea-level; 313 miles S. W. of Sydney. Communication with Sydney is via Tumut to Cootamundra station. Popu Kiata, Vict. A township in a wheatgrowing district, and a station on the railway from Dimboola to Adelaide. Kidnappers Cape, N.Z. A cape on the E. coast of the Northern Island, at the S. point of Hawkes Bay. of a Kiewa, Vict. A A township township in the centre pastoral, agricultural and mining district on Kiewa Creek, 201 miles N.E. of Melbourne. Nearest railway station, Wodonga, 15 miles distant. Population 160. Kihikihi, N.Z. A township in an agricultural district, 106 miles S. from Auckland city, and 3 miles from Te Awamutu railway station. The house built by Government for Rewi (Maori chief) is here. Population 300. Kilfera, N.S.W. A new county between the Lower Lachlan and the Darling. Kilkivan, Qd. A mining township and railway station on Wide Bay Creek, 65 miles (by rail) S.S.W. of Maryborough, 26 miles W. of Gympie and 135 miles N.W. of Brisbane. Gold, copper, cinnabar, silver, antimony, coal, iron, cobalt, and other minerals, are found in payable quantities. The Kilkivan branch line, opened in 1886, has given impetus to the mining industry by the facilities for getting machinery on the field. Population 110. Killara, N.S.W. A new county N. of the Darling river, S.W. of Landsborough county, and containing Mount McPherson. Killarney, Qd. An agricultural township and railway station on the river Condamine, 1691 feet above sea-level, 28 miles from Warwick, 195 miles N.E. by rail from Brisbane, and 90 miles in a direct line. Kiama, N.S.W. A seaport town in a coal mining, dairy farming and grazing district, and railway station on the Illawarra line, 92 miles S. of Sydney, with which it has daily communication by steamer. The town is lighted with gas, pleasantly situated, and is becoming being an important industry, and a a place of importance. Blue metal is railway station on the Kilmore branch shipped from this port in great quantities. line. The town can also be reached from Kilmore, Vict. A town in an agricultural and pastoral district, dairying Kilmore East, a station on the NorthEast railway line, 24 miles distant, 1213 feet above sea-level, on Kilmore Creek, 43 miles N. of Melbourne. General sessions are held here, and there is a good water supply derived from a reservoir holding 14,466,000 gallons. Population, with district, 2593. Local newspapers, Kilmore Free Press and Kilmore Advertiser. Kimberley (or Karumba), Qd. A pilot station at the mouth of Norman River (on North Head) 38 miles N.W. of Normanton by land, 60 miles by river; is the terminus of the Queensland system of telegraphs, which extends in an unbroken line to Brisbane, 1425 miles. Kimberley, S.A. A county with an area of 1388 square miles, in the centre of the colony, intersected by the railway from Petersburg towards Cockburn (Broken Hills). Kimberley, W.A. A division which covers the whole northern portion of the colony. Population 1109. Kimberley Goldfields, W.A., lie about 350 miles inland from the port of Derby, and were discovered in 1884. In 1886 a thousand men were on the ground. Several rich quartz veins have been discovered, and there are now eight crushing plants on the field, but the number of miners is now not so large as in 1886, owing to the difficulty of access from the coast, which makes supplies dear and the cartage of machinery high; the climate is tropical and not well suited to European miners, the latitude being 18° S. Population 180. Kinared, Tas. A township in an agricultural and potato-growing district, and railway station on Western line, 12 miles from Devonport. King, Philip Godley. Third Governor of New South Wales; born at Launceston, Cornwall, 1758; entered the navy as midshipman at twelve on board the Swallow frigate; served in India and the United States; wrecked at Delaware Bay in 1777. Made lieutenant in 1778, and appointed to the Renown. Served on board the Kite and Ariadne, and in 1783 went with Captain Arthur Phillip to the East Indies in the Europe. In 1786 joined the Sirius, and came to New South Wales with first fleet; appointed Superintendent and Commandant of Norfolk Island, whither he sailed in 1788, and formed the first British settlement there. Sailed for England in 1790; returned in 1791 on board the Gorgon, with the rank of commander in the navy and Lieut.-Governor of Norfolk Island; was appointed Governor of New South Wales, and acted in that capacity from Sept. 28th, 1800, till August 12th, 1806; married in 1790 Anna Josepha, daughter of Mr. Coombes, of Bedford, England, and had several children. Died at Tooting, Surrey, 1808. King, Rear-Admiral Philip Parker, F.R.S., F.L.S., navigator and explorer, son of Governor King, was born at Norfolk Island, Dec. 13th, 1791; entered the navy in 1807, took part in several engagements, and in 1817 after the close of the war was sent in command of an expedition consisting of the Mermaid, a cutter of 84 tons, and the Bathurst, to survey the coasts of Australia; was made commander in 1821, returned to England in 1823 and compiled a narrative of his voyages. In his first he sailed from Sydney on Dec. 22nd, 1817, accompanied by Roe and Beddome, and Allan Cunningham, botanist, sailed westerly round Cape Leeuwin, and reached the north-west cape of Western Australia Feb. 10th, 1818, anchored at Nicol Bay March 4th, and surveyed a large portion of the coast of Western Australia and the Northern Territory as far as Van Diemen Gulf. Surveyed the Alligator river for 40 miles, refitted at Timor, returned to Sydney, from which he was sent to survey Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania, and the Hastings river and Port Macquarie in New South Wales. His second voyage in the Mermaid was in 1819; he sailed from Sydney in May, passed through Torres Straits, and took up the survey at Wessell's Head, examined the coast from Clarence Straits to Cambridge Gulf, overran the work of the French navigator Baudin on the coast of Western Australia, and returned to Sydney Jan. 12th, 1820. In the third voyage he resumed the survey at Cambridge Gulf, but only went as far as Prince Regent river in the present Kimberley division of Western Australia. In the fourth voyage, accompanied by Roe and Cunningham in the Bathurst, he left Sydney 1821, discovered some remarkable caverns, and sailed 50 miles up the Prince Regent river; refitted at Mauritius, returned to Swan river and surveyed the coast northward as far as the Buccaneer here. Fortifications have been erected Archipelago; returned to Sydney April 1822. Was subsequently employed in command of the Beagle in the survey of the coasts of South America, and obtained post rank in 1830. Returned to England in 1831, and obtained permission to settle in Australia, whither he proceeded in 1831 as manager of the Australia Agricultural Society. Was made member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, and in 1851 was returned to the Legislative Assembly for the counties of Gloucester and Macquarie. Became Rear-Admiral in 1855, and died in Feb. 1856. Married, in 1817, Harriet, second daughter of Christopher Lethbridge, of Madford, Launceston, Cornwall. King, William Francis (better known as "The Flying Pieman"). Born at London in 1807; was the first pedestrian of any fame in New South Wales. He was of respectable parentage, being the son of a gentleman who was at one time Paymaster of Accounts in the Treasury at Whitehall. He was intended originally for the Church, became a stockbroker, then a clerk in the Treasury, and he left England in 1839 with the hope of getting an appointment under the government of New South Wales. He was not successful; became first a schoolmaster, then a barman, and finally a professional pedestrian, in which capacity he performed many extraordinary feats. King died in the Liverpool Asylum, N.S.W., in 1874. King, N.S.W. One of the old counties W. of Argyle; intersected by the Southern railway, and contains the town of Yass. King, Vict. A lake in the Gippsland district, counties of Tangil, Dargo and Tambo; navigable; brackish water; is connected by a navigable channel with Lake Victoria, has an entrance to the ocean, and receives the waters of the rivers Tambo and Mitchell; area, 15,000 acres. King George's Sound, W.A., was first settled from Sydney by Major Lockyer in 1826, and is now the Western Australian port of call for the mail steamers between Suez and Adelaide. A railway connects the town of Albany with Beverley and Perth; the climate is excellent, the average rainfall 39 inches. The harbour is one of the finest in Australia, and it is proposed to form an imperial coal depôt and maintained at the cost of all the Australasian colonies at the entrance to Princess Royal Harbour, and they have been mounted with three 6-in. breechloaders, and six 9-pounder rifle muzzleloaders. The entrance to the outer Sound, which is 5 miles long and 5 miles broad, is between Bald Head and Herald Point, and is divided into three channels by Breaksea and Michaelmas Islands. There is good anchorage, with from 17 to 20 fathoms. The inner, or Princess Royal Harbour, is at its entrance about a quarter of a mile wide, and opens out to a fine sheet of water 44 miles long and about 2 miles wide. A jetty of some length, about 14 mile inside the lighthouse, affords accommodation for small craft, and there is a good ocean light at Breaksea Island. King River, Tas. Rises in the west coast range and falls into Macquarie Harbour on the west coast. King Sound, W.A. A deep inlet into which the Fitzroy and Mealey rivers debouch and which falls into the Indian Ocean near the Buccaneer Archipelago. Kingower, Vict. A township in the centre of a gold-mining district on " Blanche Kingower Creek, 138 miles N.N.W. of Kingsborough, Qd. A mining centre on Hodgkinson Hodgk goldfield, 24 miles from Thornborough, and 66 miles W. from Cairns. There are numerous reefs in the vicinity, but mining matters are depressed. Population 50. Kingscote, S.A. See KANGAROO ISLAND. King's Island, Tas. The largest island in Bass's Straits, and at the W. entrance, was discovered and named by Captain Black, of the Harbinger, in 1801, is 35 miles long from N. to S., with a width of from 5 to 15 miles. The soil is generally good, but is covered with scrub, and some of the vegetation is injurious to stock. A lighthouse has been erected at Cape Wickham, on the N. of the island. A few people get their living by hunting kangaroo and wallabies, and there are some cattle on the island. Since 1835, and before the erection of the lighthouse, |