council of government, and is a member of executive council. He has also rendered the following special services: commissioned as surgeon to the Malta Artillery Militia, 4th February, 1854; at the time of the Crimean War served as surgeon to the 3rd Corps of Reserve of the British Army; from December, 1856, to April, 1857, discharged duties of British Vice-Consul at Naples; from September to December, 1858, acted as deputy-comptroller of contracts, Gozo; compiled the last census taken in April, 1881.

COWAN, JAMES.-Clerk to resident magistrate, York, Western Australia, 1864; clerk to police magistrate, 1870; clerk to legislative council, 1874; registrar and master supreme court, Nov. 1878.

COWAN, WALKINSHAW.- Resident magistrate of York district, Western Australia, 1863. For many years was guardian of aborigines in the colony.

COWARD, CAPT. GEORGE F.-Sub-agent of immigration, Jamaica, 1878; inspector of constabulary, 1st August, 1873; 2nd class inspector 9th Dec., 1881.

COWDERY, G.-Engineer of existing railways, New South Wales, 15th March, 1881.

COWPER, WILLIAM MACQUARIE, M.A., of Magdalen Hall (now Hertford College), Oxford.Dean of Sydney, New South Wales. Is son of the late Archdeacon Cowper, of Cumberland, New South Wales.

COX, CHARLES. -Appointed to the colonial office, 1829; was private secretary to the following under-secretaries of state :-to Mr. G. B. Hope, from 1841 to 1845, Lord Lyttleton, from 1845 to 1846, and Sir B. Hawes, from 1846 to 1851; was Her Majesty's commissioner for the New Zealand Company's affairs, 1848 to 1850; promoted to a senior clerkship, 1860, and a principal clerk and chief clerk, 30th September, 1872; was secretary and registrar of the Order of St. Michael and St. George from Sept., 1872, to May, 1877, when he was appointed chancellor of the Order; retired April, 1879, retaining the appointment of chancellor of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

COX, CHARLES T.-Third clerk, government secretary's office, British Guiana, 1st July, 1874; second clerk, 1st Jan., 1876; record clerk, 6th Dec., 1879; acted as chief clerk and secretary to the quarantine board from July, 1880, to May, 1881; and again from Aug., 1881, to Feb., 1882; was secretary to the commissioners appointed in Jan., 1882, to inquire into the state of the administrator-general's department of British Guiana; senior clerk, 1st Jan., 1883; acted again as chief clerk from 20th Oct., 1882, to Nov., 1884.

COX, CHARLES.-Wharfinger at bonded warehouse, British Guiana, 1873.

COX, NICHOLAS.-Inspector-general of police force, British Guiana, 17th January, 1861; has been acting stipendiary magistrate; superintendent of the fire brigade.

COX, WILLIAM HENRY LIONEL.-Substitute procureur, and advocate-general, Mauritius, Feb., 1880; puisne judge of the supreme court, Aug.,1880. COXE, K. H.-Superintending officer, public works department, Ceylon, 1866

CRACKNELL, E. C--Superintendent of telegraphs, New South Wales, 15th Jan., 1861.

CRANE, S. LEONARD, M.D., M.R.C.S., Eng., F.R.G.S.-Entered the colonial service, July 25, 1850, as assistant-surgeon "Tenedos" hospital ship, convict establishment, Bermuda; entered the service of Her Majesty's commissioners of emigration as surgeon superintendent of an emigrant ship. August, 185, and retired from this service, April,

1871; surgeon - general, Trinidad, consulting surgeon, colonial hospital, and medical attendant of the police force, Port of Spain, April, 1871; member of general board of heath, May, 1871; member of quarantine board, December, 1871; and medical officer of health for the colony, and secretary to the general board of health, Jan., 1872; one of the directors of the botanic gardens, July, 1874. CRAUFURD, CAPTAIN C. Q. G., R.N.-Harbour master, and superintendent of mercantile marine. Mauritius. 5th Nov., 1879.

CRAW, JAMES.--Secretary to the immigration board, and acting third clerk in the colonial office, Natal, 1863; and first clerk in the registry of deeds and stamp office of that colony, 1866.

CRAWFORD, MARCUS SYNNOT.-Educated at Exeter College, Oxford; open scholar; first class classical moderations, 1876; second class, final classical schools, 1878; a writer in the Ceylon civil service, July, 1877; police magistrate, Panadure, 1st January, 1885.

CRAWFORD, R. C.-Postmaster, Bahamas, 1876; also inspector of prisons in 1878; acting inspector of police, 19th January to 2nd March, 1883, and 12th April, 1884, to 26th April, 1885; is a J.P. for the Bahamas.

CREAGH, C. V.-Was assistant district superintendent of the first class in the Punjaub police; in 1866 passed the highest police examination, and the second standard in oriental languages; in 1867 raised the Sikh police for the Hong Kong government, and was appointed deputy superintendent of police; in 1868 was made a justice of the peace; sheriff in 1874; acted as captain superintendent of police in 1869-70 and 1877-78; acting aide-decamp in 1878; appointed superintendent of fire brigade, 1878; acted as police magistrate and coroner from 7th March, 1878, to 24th July. 1880; passed with credit the six examinations in Chinese colloquial prescribed by the Government; assistant resident, Perak. In 1879, was member of a committee appointed to suggest measures for the suppression of public gambling; was appointed arbitrator for the government under the Opium Ordinance (7 of 1879); assistant British resident and member of state council, Perak, March, 1883.

CREALOCK, LIEUT.-GENERAL HENRY H., C.B., C.M.G. (1879).-For services in South Africa.

CREASE, HON. HENRY P. PELLEW.-Graduated at Clare College, Cambridge, B.A., 1847; called to the bar at the Middle Temple, June, 1849; attorney-general of British Columbia, July, 1868 to 1870; a puisne judge of the court of Queen's Bench of that province, 1870.

CREASY, E.-Private secretary to his father Sir Edward Creasy, Chief Justice of Ceylon, in 1868. Assistant to the surveyor general, 1871; district surveyor, 1876. Acting police magistrate, commissioner of Court of Requests, and deputy Fiscal at Balapeta-Modera, 1878. Assistant superintendent in the Ceylon police force, 1879, and justice of the peace of the W.P.; passed the prescribed examination in the Singhalese language, 1882. Acting head-quarter superintendent, and superintendent of police of the northern, eastern, and north-western provinces, and justice of the peace for those provinces in 1882.

CRISSON, JOHN C.-Cashier of the public bankTurks Islands, in March, 1864; clerk of the crown and prothonotary, and clerk in colonial secretary's office, June, 1867; acting colonial secretary and clerk of the council, during the absence of colonial secretary; is a justice oft he peace.

CROFTON, FRANCIS BLAKE, B.A., Trinity

College, Dublin, 1862.-Provincial librarian, Nova Scotia, January, 1882; author of "The Mayor's By-Talk Stories," &c. CROPPER, JAMES BASSNETT. Assistant protector of immigrants, September, 1880; acting protector of immigrants, 1882; acting chief clerk, government office, and clerk o councils, September, 1884.

CROPPER, ROBERT P.-Superintendent of emigration, Barbados, 1873. Protector of immigrants, St. Lucia, 1878.

CROSBY, JAMES MICHAEL.-Was clerk to resident magistrate, Simon's Town, Cape Colony, 1857 to 1860; clerk to civil commissioner and resident magistrate, Prince Albert, 1860 to 1864; 2nd clerk, attorney-general's office, 1864 to 1869; master and registrar eastern districts court, 1869, to April, 1872; civil commissioner and resident magistrate, Humansdorp, April to December, 1872; chief clerk, attorney-general's office, and clerk of the peace for Cape Town, Dec., 1872, to Oct., 1877, when he was appointed high sheriff of the colony, resident magistrate, Cape Town, 1st May, 1884.

CROSS, J. W.-Clerk, Zulu interpreter, and sub-distributor of stamps in the resident magistrate's office, Ixopo, Natal, 23rd October, 1876; deputy clerk of the peace for Ixopo, 2nd March, 1877; and on 3rd March, 1879, appointed in command of the Ixopo Natal native foot contingent, 600 strong; and subsequently transferred to command of the mounted contingent during the Zulu war; acting resident magistrate, Ixopo, 16th January to 2nd May, 1881, and May and June,

1882.

CROSSKILL, HERBERT.--Deputy provincial secretary, Nova Scotia.

CROSSMAN, COL. SIR WILLIAM, R.E., K.C.M.G., (1884), C.M.G. (1877), M.P.-Commissioner to inquire into the resources, firances, and administration of Griqua and West, 1875; member of the West Indies Finance Commission, 1882; returned to Parliament for Portsmouth, Dec., 1885.

CROWLY, THEODORE G.-Controller of arms, Natal; appointed clerk to auditors, Feb., 1849; clerk to resident magistrate, Pietermaritzburg, July, 1849; clerk and accountant, treasury, Dec., 1852; finance and second clerk, colonial secretary's office, Sept., 1853; acting auditor, Dec., 1855; acting postmaster general, Mar., 1857; registrar, supreme court, Feb., 1859; finance and first clerk, colonial secretary's office, Oct., 1859; chief clerk, colonial secretary's office, and clerk to the executive council, Aug., 1860; chief clerk, colonial secretary's office, Aug., 1862; controller of arms and ammunition, Jan., 1875; justice of the peace in and for the colony of Natal, Jan., 1875; member of the fire arms board, under Law No. 6 of 1876; proceded on a special mission to the Transvaal for the purpose of inspecting and re-organizing sundry of the government offices, Aug., 1877; auditor of Natal, 1884.

CROZIER, R. J.-Resident magistrate, Mossel Bay division, Cape Colony, 1st January, 1880. CULBERT, JOHN ALEXANDER. - Tidewaiter, port of Nassau, October, 1853; acted as warehouse keeper, February, 1856; second clerk, receivergeneral and treasurer's department, December, 1856; acting market clerk, October, 1859; warehouse keeper from August, 1863, to December, 1869, when he discharged the combined duties of warehouse keeper and examining officer, until his promotion to the office of collector, March, 1870; acted as president justice, Inagua, from December, 1873, to June, 1874; returned as a member of the House of Assembly, for the district of Harbour

Island, in May, 1875; acting registrar of records, June to December, 1883, and January to February,

1884.

CULL, J. B.-Principal of the Royal College, Colombo, Ceylon, 1st December, 1878. CULLEN, E. B.-Under secretary to the treasury, Queensland, 1st October, 1877.

CUMMINS, REGINALD LEE.-As supernume rary, colonial secretary's office, Barbados, Feb, 1876; third clerk correspondence branch, March, 1879; second clerk, audit office, January, 1881; acting chief clerk, audit office, November, 1881, to December, 1882; second clerk correspondence, branch colonial secretary's office, January, 1883; chief clerk and treasurer, petty debt court, Bridgetown, July, 1884.

CUNNINGHAM, JOHN.-Fourth clerk in colonial secretary's office, Trinidad, January, 1875; 3rd clerk, 1st February, 1877; acted as secretary to the board of education and council for the management of the Queen's royal college from August, 1878, to December, 1879; appointed second clerk, colonial secretary's department, 15th March, 1880; and acted as secretary to the commissioner appointed by the secretary of state to enquire into the disturbances at Port of Spain in connection with the carnival of 1881.

CUNNINGHAM, SAMUEL.-Appointed clerk of the peace for district No. 4, and registrar of births, &c., for district No. 3, Island of Tobago, October, 1875; clerk of petty sessions, July, 1876; inland revenue officer, Windward district, July, 1878; acting second revenue officer, August, 1879; acted as inspector of inlandro-venue officers in latter portion of 1879; appointed acting first revenue officer in March, 1880, and in January, 1881, acting revenue officer for Plymouth, and also health officer of the port and sub-collector of taxes. He holds a com mission as lieutenant in the Tobago rifle volunteris, for which corps he is adjutant and quartermaster.

CURRAN, C. R.-Puisne judge, supreme court, Jamaica, June, 1879.

CURRIE, SIR DONALD, K.C.M.G. (1881), C.M.G. (1877).-Member of a firm owning a line of mail steamers running between England and South Africa. In July, 1876, at the time of the negotiations between the Earl of Carnarvon and President Brand, he assisted by his good offices in bringing about the success of these negotiations, and thus ending the long dispute between the British Government and the Orange Free State in reference to the Diamond Fields; has been M.P. for Perthshire since 1880.

CURTIS, ALFRED P.-Third class clerk, June, 1864, in public works department, Western Australia; removed to survey office, 1865; second class clerk, post office, 1872.

CUSCADEN, W. A.-Appointed assistant inspector of constabulary, Gold Coast, March, 1879; civil commissioner, Tacquah district, 1881; superintendent of police, Singapore, 1883.

CUSTANCE, J. D. -Professor of Agriculture and Principal of Agricultural College, South Australia, 1st June, 1881.

CUTHBERT. SYDNEY.-Entered the service as 2nd clerk in the treasury and post office department, British Honduras, 3rd Dec., 1880; appointed adjutant, Belize volunteer corps, 1st April, 1880; promoted 2nd clerk colonial secretary's office, 1st February, 1883; acted as inspector of police from 28th March to 6th Sept., 1883; chief clerk, colonial secretary's office, 1884.

DADSON, CAPTAIN WILL'AM FREDERICK PORTLOCK. Entered the Royal Marines, 6th

Aug., 1849; promoted 2nd lieutenant, 30th Dec., 150; 1st lieutenant, 24th Feb., 1854; quartermaster, 2nd division, 23rd Dec., 1859; captain, 27th March, 1862; retired on half-pay, 25th Aug., 1862; sold out of the service, 21st July, 1870; served with the combined expedition to the Baltic, from 11th March to 10th Dec., 1854, being present at the blockade of all the Russian ports (medal); served before Sebastopol 30th January, 1855, and until its fall on 8th September; present during the bombardment and taking of fort Kinburn, in the advance to Pattowffka (medal with clasp, and Turkish medal); served in the Piræus in Dec., also in Jan. and March, 1856; and from the 28th of July to the 17th of Oct., was employed on special service at St. Petersburg, on the occasion of the coronation of the Emperor Alexander II; was present at the blockade of the Canton River, the occupation of Hainan Island, the landing before and storming of Canton, 29th Dec.; was recommended for the Cross of the Legion of Honour, and granted a pension for wounds of 701. a year, 13th May, 1859; commanded the 7.h Kent rifle volunteers from 1st July, 1863, to 9th Jan., 1869; served as captain west Kent militia light infantry, from 22nd March, 1869, to 22nd Dec., 1872; and in Her Majesty's royal body guard, honourable corps of gentlemen-at-arms, from 25th Oct., 1865, to 9th Nov., 1877, when he resigned on appointment, 5th Oct., 1877, as superintendent of the government reformatory in Jamaica; superintendent of the penal settlement at Massaruni, British Guiana, 12th November, 1881; justice of the peace for the colony of British Guiana, 10 Jan., 1882; acted as inspector of prisons from 26th April to 20th Nov., 1882.

DALE, AUGUSTUS CHARLES.-Entered the Cape service 1st Aug., 1880, promoted to 2nd class, 1st Jan., 1873, and to 1st class, 1st April, 1881; principal clerk, colonial secretary's office, 1st Nov., 1881.

DALE, LANGHAM.-Graduated in honours, B.A. of Queen's College, Oxford, 1847, selected by Sir John Herschel to be professor of classics, S. A. college, Capetown, 1848; superintendent-general of education for the Cape Colony, 1859; vice-chancellor of the university of the Cape of Good Hope, 1873 M.A., Oxford, 1873; Hon. LL.D., Glasgow.

DALE, WILLIAM.-Served in the police department, Western Australia, from 1859 to 1873; immigration agent and officer in charge of poor houses. 1874.

DALGARNO, JAMES.-Clerk in the general post-office at Sydney, New South Wales, 1860; chief clerk, 1869; subsequently visited England, America, and New Zealand, as secretary to the Hon. Saul Samuel, who was specially commissioned by the New South Wales government to organise a mail service between the United Kingdom and the Australasian colonies by way of the United States.

DALLEY, HON. W. B., Q.C.-Solicitor-general, N.S. Wales, 15 Nov., 1858, to 11 Feb., 1859; attorney-general, 9 Feb., 1875, to 21 March, 1877, 17 Aug. to 9 Nov., 1877, and 5 Jan., 1883, to Oct., 1885.

DALTON, E. H. G.-Entered the registrar's office, Demerary and Essequibo, as sworn clerk, in 1860; passed as notary public for that office by the judges in 1862; became first clerk in the office in 1864; acted as registrar in 1867, again in 1868 and 1872; assistant government secretary, and assistant receiver general for Berbice, May, 1874; colonial postmaster for British Guiana, 1875; justice of the

peace, and commissioner of affidavits; registrar of the supreme court, May, 1876.

DALTON, REV. J. N., M.A., C.M.G. (1882).— Was Governor to their Royal Highnesses the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales, and acting chaplain to H.M.'s Ship "Bacchante; honorary chaplain to Her Majesty, 9th Aug., 1882. DAMPIER, FREDERICK ELLIOT.-Superintendent of rivers and creeks, Essequibo, British Guiana, 1860; stipendiary magistrate of the north coast district, Essequibo, 1866; magistrate of the Essequibo island district, 1868; magistrate of the west coast district, 1869; magistrate of combined district east and west bank, Demerara river,

1879.

DANIEL, ALFRED NORTH.- Captain, late 4th Battalion the Buffs (East Kent Regiment); served on temporary staff of the department of the secretary of the admiralty from August, 1867, to August, 1872; assistant-inspector Gold Coast constabulary, 17th September, 1880; commissioner for the district of Accra, and deputy-sheriff of the central province, December, 1880; commissioner for the district of Cape Coast, September, 1882; of inspector mounted police, Basutoland, and acting assistant commissioner. Maseru district, May, 1884; assistant colonial secretary and treasurer, Sierra Leone, 1885.

DANSEY, G. F.-Principal medical officer, New South Wales, 23 June, 1871.

D'ARCY, EDWARD STUCLEY.-Clerk in the office of the secretary to government, and auditor of British Kaffraria, Sept., 1861; 2nd class clerk, customs department, Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope, June, 1866; first clerk, principal controller's office, June, 1870; acting resident magistrate and sub-collector of customs, Simon's Town, 1874; chief clerk, port off Cape Town, Jan., 1875; upon active service as lieutenant, Duke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles in the Trans-keian Territory, 1879; extra aide-de-camp to H.E. the Governor, 17th July, 1879.

DARRELL, JOHN H., C.M.G. (1871). — Chief justice of Bermuda, 1856; retired 1871. Formerly Lincoln's Inn. Was a member of the executive of Trinity College, Cambridge; a barrister of and legislative councils; entered the colonial service in 1819; was attorney-general from 1834 to 1856. Published an edition of the laws of Bermuda in 1861.

DARTNELL, MAJOR J. G., C.M.G. (1881.)— Late of the 27th and 86th regiments; commandant of the volunteer and mounted police. Natal, 1874.

DAVENPORT, SIR SAMUEL, KNIGHT BACH. (1884).—Represented South Australia at the international exhibitions at Philadelphia, Sydney, and Melbourne, and has rendered other valuable services to the colony.

DAVEY, WILLIAM B.-Second clerk, Antigua treasury. Dec., 1878; landing waiter, Sept., 1879.

DAVIDSON, ANDREW, F.R.C.P., Edinburgh; M.R.C.S., England; Fellow of the Royal Physical Society.-Formerly physician to the court of Madagascar: appointed visiting and superintending surgeon of the civil hospital, Mauritius, February, 1877, and government analyst. December of the same year; acted as police and prison surgeon in 1878; appointed professor of chemistry in the royal college, April, 1879; superintendent of the lunatic asylum, November, 1879; author of numerous medical works; secretary to the cattle plague commission, &c., &c.

DAVIE, HON. A. E. B., Q.C.-Attorneygeneral, British Columbia, 1877.

DAVIES, JAMES BRIGHT.-Educated at the

church missionary society's grammar school, Sierra Leone, 1864-1867; supernumerary in the colonial treasury, Sierra Leone, 1st Mar., 1870; permanent extra clerk in the same department, 18th March, 1871, to 16th April, 1878, when he resigned; served during this period in various capacities in the finance departments in Sierra Leone; acted as joint chief clerk and cashier, 1st Nov. to 31st Dec., 1872; acted as chief clerk, auditor-general's office,'from June, 1874, to April, 1875; acted as second clerk and examining officer, Treasury (@) Sept., 1873, to Feb., 1874; (b) Nov., 1875, to Feb., 1876; was financial clerk throughout Governor Rowe's several expeditions to the Sherbro, Scarcies, and Moriah countries, between Oct., 1875, and Mar., 1878; appointed chief clerk in the secretariat Gold Coast Colony, 13th July, 1880.

DAVIES, JOHN, C.M.G. (1880). Commissioner at the International Exhibition held in Sydney in 1879-80.

DAVIS, BART., K.C.B. (Civil) 1854.-SIR JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS.-Was for some years British plenipotentiary and chief superintendent of British trade in China, governor and commander-in-chief of the colony of Hong Kong; received his baronetcy in 1845 for services in China; is author of a general description of China and its inhabitants; was appointed a deputy-lieutenant of Gloucestershire, 1852. DAVIS, NICHOLAS DARNELL.--Was for some years in Grenada, in the private secretary's office of Lieut.-Governor Kortright, Lieut.-Governor Mundy, and Administrator Baynes, and private secretary to the last for a short time. In British Guiana served as a clerk in several departments; from the 25th of August, 1870, to the 23rd of February, 1871, was secretary to the commissioners of inquiry into the treatment of immigrants; was appointed on the 17th of February, 1872, secretary to the royal commissioners of inquiry into the treatment of immigrants in Mauritius; commandant, British Sherbro, Sierra Leone, 1874; postmaster-general, British Guiana, 1876; acted as receiver-general of British Guiana, from Dec., 1880, to 30th Sept., 1881; appointed comptroller of customs, 1st Oct., 1881; acting auditor-general, a member of the court of policy, and senior commissioner of the Vlissengen Estate, 6th June, 1882, to Jan., 1883.

DAVIS, SOLOMON S.-Third clerk, customs, Lagos, Oct., 1871; acting clerk of the powder magazine Oct., 1873; acting second clerk of customs, Feb., 1874; acting chief clerk and warehouse keeper, Sept., 1875.

DAWSON, A. R.-Writer, Ceylon civil service 1866; acting assistant government agent, Colombo Sept. 1866; acting police magistrate, &c., Pánaduré Dec. 1866; acting assistant government agent Colombo, Jan. 1867; police magistrate, &c., Point Pedro (to continue to act at Colombo), May 1867; assistant government agent, Colombo, June 1868; police magistrate, &c., Jaffna, Jan. 1869; acting assistant government agent, Mátara, Aug. 1869; acting district judge, &c., Badulla, 1870; resumed duties as police magistrate, Jaffna, 1871; acting landing surveyor, Colombo, March, 1872; acting district judge, Negombo, June, 1872; district judge, Kégalla, June, 1873, to continue to act at Negombo; acting assistant government agent, Kégalla, Oct, 1873; confirmed, 1875; acting assistant government agent, Ratnapura, 1876; assistant agent Mannár, 1878; grain commissioner, 1879.

chancellor of the McGill University, Montreal Canada.

DEAKIN, HON. A.-Commissioner of public works, and minister of water supply, Victoria. Mar. 8, 1883; also vice-president board of land and works and solicitor general, Nov. 13, 1883. DEALTRY, W., C.M.G. (1881.).—Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; clerk in the office of the secretary of state for the colonies, April, 1837; assistant clerk, April, 1854; senior clerk, May, 1867; principal clerk, 30th September, 1872; chief clerk, 2nd April, 1879; retired, 30th June, 1879.

DEALY, THOMAS KIRKMAN.-Educated at St. Mary's College, Hammersmith, London, W. taking Marquis of Ripon's first prize and a double first (head of each list), 1880; matriculated (first division) at London University, 1883; first B.A. (first division) at same university, 1884; headmaster St. Mary's, Derby, 1881-84; appointed assistant master at the government central school, Hong Kong, 1884.

DEANE, W. M.-Graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1862; M.A. 1866; elected student interpreter, Hong Kong, March 28, 1862; extra A.D.C. to Sir Hercules Robinson, 1864; passed as interpreter, 1865; private secretary to the administrator Hon. T. Mercer, 1865; justice of the peace, 1865; acting registrar-general, June, 1865; acting captain superintendent of police, Oct., 1866; confirmed, July, 1868; wounded severely on duty, 1878; acting colonial treasurer, 1881. librarian of Parliament, Canada, 6th August, DE CELLES, ALFRED DUCLOS. General

1885.

DE CHARMOY, O. D'EMMEREZ-Registrar of supreme court, Mauritius, 20 Feb., 1873. DE CHARMOY, L. G. J. D'EMMEREZ,— Admitted an attorney-at-law, supreme court, Mauritius, May, 1879; clerk to the puisne judge of the supreme court, April, 1884; is also interpreter procureur general's department.

DEERING, JOHN W.-Entered survey department, South Australia, 1855; survey department, New South Wales, 1860; district surveyor, New Metropolitan District, New South Wales, 1884.

DEERING, SAMUEL.-Clerk in the census office, London, 1851; clerk in audit office, South Australia, 1855; chef clerk, 1859; clerk of executive council, chief, 1867; captain volunteer military staff, 1867 ; 1863; aide-de-camp to Sir D, Daly, governor-inaide-de-camp to the Right Hon. Sir James Ferappeals, Jan., 1869; resigned the foregoing apgusson, Bart., 1869; also clerk to the court of pointments on being made secretary to the attorneygeneral, July, 1869; secretary to the commissioner of crown lands, Nov., 1870; a magistrate of the province, February, 1874; a commissioner in London for taking affidavits in the supreme court of South Australia, August, 1874; assistant agentgeneral and assistant emigration agent in London, August, 1874.

DEFFELL, GEORGE HIBBERT.- Educated at Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge; graduated B.A. 1842; called to the bar, Inner Temple, Nov. 1846; a commissioner of the court of claims in New South Wales, Aug. 25, 1856; and the master in equity of the supreme court of New South Wales, April 1, 1857; chief commissioner of insolvent estates, July 1, 1865.

DEIGHTON. E.-Under secretary for public works and mines, Queensland, 1 Jan., 1877.

DE JOUX, C. M.-Clerk in the government schools office, Mauritius, May, 1854; head clerk in D. Branch, colonial secretary's office, August, 1857; and secretary to council of that Island, January, 1862: storekeeper-general and commissioner of stamps, November, 1867; acting auditorgeneral, May, 1877; collector of customs, and registrar of shipping.

DELAKONNY, ALBERT. Volunteer Engineers' Railway Workshops, Mauritius, 1st April, 1866; goods clerk, August, 1873.

DE LA MARE, FRANCIS.-Appointed inspector of police, Mauritius, August, 1864; poor law guardian, and acting sanitary warden, Plain Wrahem District in addition to police, duties, Jan., 1874; appointed inspector of immigrants, Jan., 1875; acting British consul for the island of Réunion, Nov., 1877-June, 1879; resumed duty in Mauritius as inspector of immigrants, July, 1879; emigration agent, Calcutta, for Mauritius and Fiji, April, 1883; emigration agent for Mauritius, 1884. DE LAPEYRE, EDMOND.-Police and additional district magistrate, Port Louis; was called to the bar at the Middle Temple on 14th May, 1866; 1st Mar., 1872, acting district and stipendiary magistrate, Flacq; Mar., 1873, acting district and stipendiary magistrate, Rivière du Rempart; 4th Aug., 1873, acting district and stipendiary magistrate. Savanne; 19th Nov., 1873, acting additional district magistrate, Port Louis; 1st Jan., 1874, acting district and stipendiary magistrate, Savanne; Oct., 1875, district judge, Seychelles; 18th Oct., 1879, acting chief civil commissioner, Seychelles; 1st Jan., 1880, acting stipendiary magistrate, Flacq; 1st April, 1880, acting junior district magistrate, Pamplemousses; 29th May, 1880, acting district magistrate, Port Louis; 17th Aug., 1880, acting senior district magistrate, Port Louis; 28th Jan., 1881, police and additional district magistrate, Port Louis; 3rd Feb., 1881, visiting magistrate, vagrant depôt; 17th Sept., 1881, member of the Wood and Forest Land Purchase Commission, and of the commission for drafting civil procedure rules for district courts; police magistrate, Moka, 1882.

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DE LIVERA, F. J.-Writer, Ceylon civil service, 1868; acting magistrate, Panadure, 1869; police magistrate, Balapitimodara, 1870; acting police magistrate, Jaffna, March, 1873; acting commissioner of requests, Colombo, May, 1873; police magistrate, Jaffna, June, 1873, to continue to act at Colombo; acting district judge, Ratnapura, 1875; acting police magistrate, Colombo, 1878; firmed, 1879; district judge, Negombo, 1880. DEMPSTER, T. ERSKINE. - Educated at Adelaide House Academy, Jersey, and Hartley the Institute, Southampton; entered 66 nonregulation commission," Bengal, 1872, as extra assistant commissioner, Hayaribagh; in 1874, special duty during Bengal famine, deputy magistrate and deputy collector, Durbhunga, Tirboot; in charge treasury judicial and revenue work, 1875, extra assistant commissioner, Nya. Dumka, Sonthal, Pergunnahs; the same year special duty as assistant settlement officer during Sonthal settlement, determining measurements and adjudicating land disputes; 1876, appointed subdivisional officer in charge Jamtara, Sonthal, Pergunnahs; nominated by government as stipendiary magistrate, Mauritius, in 1877.

DENNEHY, CHARLES, M.R.C.S.I., L.A.R.C.S.I., L.A., Rotunda, Dublin, F.R.C.S. (Edin., 1883.-Medical officer, St. Mary's District, Antigua, January, 1871; medical officer, St. Philips, August, 1875; registrar, St. Philips, August, 1875; acting colonial

surgeon, St. Lucia, July, 1876: colonial surgeon, St. Lucia, May, 1877; health officer, Castries, St. Lucia, September, 1877.

DENNISON, LIEUT.-COL. FREDERICK CHARLFS, C.M.G. (1885); in command of Canadian voyageurs in the Soudan expedition, 1884-5.

DENISON, N., Superintendent of the Lower

Perak.

DENNYS, NICHOLAS BELFIELD, Ph. D. (Germany), F.R.G.S., &c.-Entered the civil department of the Navy in 1855, and was present at the bombardment of Sveaborg. Resigned on 30th Sept., 1862, and passed a competitive examination before the Civil Service Commissioners, and obtained an honorary certificate, 27th Jan., 1863; was appointed student interpreter in China, 14th Feb., 1863. Resigned, 31st December, 1865, and edited the Hong Kong "China Mail" from 1866 to 1876. On 23rd April, 1877, assistant protector of Chinese emigrants at Singapore. Is the author of several works on the topography, language, and customs of China. Gazetted J.P. for Straits Settlements, 22nd June, 1877. Appointed secretary, librarian, and curator of the Raffles (Public) Library and Museum, 1st Aug., 1877; 18th March, 1878, gazetted a police magistrate for Singapore; April, 1878, received the Chinese order, Pao Sing, conferred by Imperial edict of 12th February, 1878, for services rendered in 1867-70 towards the suppression of the Macao coolie trade; April, 1881, appointed extra coroner for Singapore; 20th May, 1881, permanent magistrate and commissioner of court of requests.

DENTON, GEORGE CHARDIN.-Ensign, 57th Regiment, Oct., 1869; lieutenant, May, 1871, adjutant, Aug., 1876; Captain, Jan., 1878; chief of police, St. Vincent, April, 1880; appointed one of the commissioners to enquire into the condition of the police force in Barbados, Oct., 1880; member of executive council, Oct., 1881; represented St. Vincent at the telegraphic conference at Barbados, May, 1882; administered the government of St. Vincent, 9th May to 30th July, 1885.

DE PIRO, COL. SAVERIO MARCHESE (C.M.G., 1882).--Of the Royal Malta Fencible Artillery.

DERBY, 15th EARL of (England, created 1485); BARON STANLEY, 1832 (United Kingdom); BART. 1627 (England); Privy councillor, 1858.-EDWARD STANLEY.-Succeeded his father in 1869, was educated at Rugby, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was 1st class in classics, 1848. taking also mathematical honours; elected M.P. for Lynn Regis, Dec. 1848; appointed a deputy-lieut. of Lancashire, 1848; was under-secretary of state for foreign affairs from March to Dec. 1852; appointed secretary of state for the colonies, Feb. 1858, and "Her Majesty's commissioner for the affairs of India," May, 1858; secretary of state for India and president of the council of India, August, 1858, to June, 1859; foreign secretary in Lord Derby's administration, and also in Mr. Disraeli's first administration from 6th July, 1866, to Dec., 1868, and in Mr. Disraeli's second administration from Feb., 1874 to 1st April, 1878; again secretary of state for the Colonies, 16th Dec., 1882, to 24th June, 1885.

DE ROBECK, G. W. B., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge.-Appointed, after a competitive examination, a clerk in the office of the secretary of state for the colonies, August, 1860; private secretary to Mr. Chichester Fortescue, 16th February, 1864; to Mr. Adderley, October, 1866; junior clerk, 1st class, 20th May, 1867; private secretary to Rt. Hon. W. Monsell, 9th December, 1868, to January, 1871, and private secretary to Right Hon. E. Knatchbull - Hugessen, January, 1871, till 29th