troops and native allies on the Gold Coast against the Ashantees in 1863; also defended Lower Combo, Gambia, in February, 1864, in conjunction with Commodore Wilmot, against the hostile natives of Goongorn; in June, 1864, he successfully commanded an expedition 160 miles up the river Gambia, and received the thanks of the Colonial Government and the brevet of lieutenant-colonel. He served as brigadier-general in command of the expedition against the Indians of Yucatan in February and March, 1867; bombarded and destroyed four Indian towns, including the fortress of San Pedro, and recovered the northern and western districts of British Honduras, which had been temporarily overrun. For this service received C.B.; appointed lieutenant-governor of British Honduras, 1883; retired, 1884.

HARMER, HERBERT J.-Harbour master, Malacca, 21st April, 1884.

HARPER, JULIAN F.-Educated at Oriel College, Oxford; graduated 1875; called to the bar by the Inner Temple, April, 1877; clerk, governor's office, Western Australia, May, 1881; acting registrar of land titles and deeds, Oct. 1882; acting master in bankruptcy, taxing-master, and master supreme court, Feb., 1883; acting government resident, and chairman quarter sessions for the Northern District, May, 1883; justice of the peace for the colony. HARRAGIN, JOHN ARTHUR.-Entered the civil service of Trinidad in 1861, as supernumerary in the colonial secretary's office; in 1862, assistant clerk of the peace for Port of Spain; in 1864, to act as sixth clerk in the receiver general's office; in the same year, clerk to the inspector commandant of police; end of 1865, chief clerk of the colonial hospital; in 1867, landing waiter, customs department; in 1871, inspector of police, northern division; in 1873, acting inspector of police ⚫ southern division; in the same year, warder, &c., of the Couva Ward Union, and took over the duties on the 1st September, 1874; acting inspector of immigrants in 1875; and a justice of the peace for the district; commissioner Southern Province, 1 Oct., 1878.

HARRIMAN, B. C.-Secretary to the Law Department, Victoria, 5 Aug., 1872.

HARRIS, CHARLES ALEXANDER, B.A.—Scholar, prizeman, and Porteus medallist of Christ's College, Cambridge; Tancred student in common law at Lincoln's-inn, 1877; 12th in the classical tripos, 1878; appointed a second class clerk in the Colonial Office after open competition, 1st July, 1879; secretary to the West Indies Finance Commission, Dec., 1882.

HARRIS, JOHN.-Entered the English inland revenue service as 2nd class assistant of excise in April, 1862; 1st class assistant in 1864; 2nd clerk, Sheffield collection, in 1866; appointed chief clerk in the treasury, Jamaica, in Dec., 1870; acted as treasurer of the colony from Dec., 1873, till Dec., 1874; acting commissioner of stamps, July,

1877.

HART, ANTHONY DE LLANO. Storekeeper, Trinidad, October 4th, 1866; office of the court of intendant, 1868; office of stipendiary magistrate, Port of Spain, 1868; marshal's office, June, 1869; clerk at Government House, 21st Sept., 1869; promoted to the customs department in 1871; landing waiter, 1872, and inspector of Venezuelan vessels in addition to other duties, 1876.

HART, JOHN.-Employed in Jamaica as superintendent Kings Horse, Gardens, and Grounds during their formation, from Nov., 1875, to Oct., 1881; promoted superintendent government Cinchona Plantation s, Oct., 1881.

HART, LOVELACE FRED. EDWARD RALPH.Obtained a first-class certificate at I. C. College in Dec., 1875; articled law student, 3rd Jan., 1876; acting clerk of the peace the same year; on the remodelling of the customs of Trinidad, was gazetted 31st January, 1877, as a permanent clerk in that department; promoted, 18th Sep., 1878, to the treasury, and on the 21st of the same month was transferred to the audit office.

HARTLEY, E. B.-Surgeon - Major, Cap Mounted Riflemen; created .C. for gallantry in the operations against the stronghold of the Basuto chief Morosi.

HARTLEY, J. A., B.A., B.Sc.-Inspector of schools, South Australia, 11th December, 1879.

HARTWELL, CAPTAIN (Retired) E. H. B., R.N. -Entered the royal navy, July, 1851; served in Black Sea and Baltic during Crimean War; sub. sequently on the Pacific, Mediterranean, and East Indian stations; promoted to lieutenant, 1859, commander, 1868; retired, 1873, being then in command of a coast guard in Ireland; appointed inspector-general of police, Jamaica, Aug. 1878.

HARWOOD, JOHN AUGUSTUS.-Called to the bar, Middle Temple, June, 1871; private secretary to the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., 1873; police magistrate, St. Vincent, 1877; police magistrate, Grenada, 1879; acting attorney general, May, 1880), to Jan.. 1881; acting colonial secretary in Jan., 1881; registrar, supreme court. Penang, Aug., 1881; acting attorney general, Straits Settlements, April, 1882, to Sept., 1883.

HATHORN, JOHN WALTON.-2nd clerk in the colonial engineers' office, Natal, March, 1861; 3rp clerk in the audit office, May, 1864; 1st clerk in the general post office, Sep., 1865; 1st clerk in the treasury, June, 1874; 1st clerk and clerk c the court to the resident magistrate, Pietermaritzburg; and sub-distributor of stamps, Pietermaritz burg, March, 1876; acted as controller of arms and ammunition for eight months, from August, 1877; has acted frequently as resident magistrate and administrator of native law, both of the city of Pietermaritzburg and of Umgeni Division of Pietermaritzburg County, and as post-mastergeneral, and clerk of the peace; resident magistrate, Ixopo division, 1881; justice of peace for the colony, June, 1881.

HÁUGHTON, HANCOCK THOMAS -Cadet, Straits Settlements, 23rd Nov., 1881.

HAUGHTON, S.-Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, first honours in classics in Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, 1868, and in Hilary Term, 1869; writer, Ceylon civil service, Sept., 1870; acting police magistrate, Panadura, June, 1872: police magistrate, Haldummulla, and acting assistant government agent, Kandy, Sept., 1872; assistant government agent, Anuradhapura, Sept., 1873, to continue to act at Kandy; acting fiscal, central province, 1875; assistant agent, Batticaloa, 1875; acting police magistrate, Colombo, 1875; acting assistant agent, Negombo, 1876; assistant agent, Mullaittwa, 1877; ditto Mannar (acting), 1879; ditto Negombo, 1883.

HAVELOCK, SIR ARTHUR ELIBANK, K.C.M.G. (1884).—Entered the army, 32nd Light Infantry, Jan., 1862; captain, 1873; private secretary and aide-de-camp to the officer administering the government of Mauritius from July, 1873, to Jan., 1874; acting chief civil commissioner, Seychelles Islands, from April, 1874, until Feb., 1875; member of the executive and legislative councils of Fiji, May, 1875; appointed (provisionally) colonial secretary and receiver-general, Fiji, 1st September, 1875; president of Nevis, 1877; administered the Governmen

of St. Lucia from June, 1878, to Aug., 1879; chief civil commissioner, Seychelles, October, 1879; governor, West Africa Settlements, 1881; April, 1881, sent on a mission to Paris in conjunction with Mr. Hemming, of the Colonial Office, to assist in negotiating the settlement of certain questions at issue between Great Britain and France, with regard to territory on the West Coast of Africa; appointed Her Majesty's consul for Liberia, Dec., 1881; sent on a mission to Liberia to negotiate the settlement of a conterminous boundary between Sierra Leone and Liberia, and to inquire into the claims of British subjects against the Liberian Government, March, 1882; governor of Trinidad, Dec., 1884; governor of Natal, 1885.

HAWKER ERLE, C. S.-Supervisor of customs, Gold Coast Colony, 1884.

HAWKER, GEORGE C., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge.-Speaker of the house of assembly, South Australia, 1860; re-elected, ditto, 1863; treasurer, 1875; chief secretary, 1876; commissioner of public works, 26 October, 1877, to 24 June, 1881.

HAWKINS, A. CÆSAR.- Ensign in the 1st royals, Feb., 1836, and retired after 12 years' service; resident magistrate of the Weenen, Natal, Sept., 1952, and removed to resident magistracy of the Upper Umcomanzi division of that colony, Feb., 1855; was a major in the Natal carbineers.

HAWKER, HON. GEORGE CHARLES, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge.-A member of house of assembly, South Australia; elected speaker of house of assembly, 1860; re-elected ditto, 1863; treasurer, 23rd May, 1875 to 3rd June, 1875; chief secretary, 25th March, 1876. to 6th June, 1876; commissioner of public works during periods 26th October, 1877, to 24th June, 1881.

HAWTAYNE, GEORGE HAMMOND.-Was private secretary to Mr. Eyre, when lieutenantgovernor of St. Vincent, in 1854; police and stipendiary magistrate of the Leeward District of that colony, March, 1857; for several years a member of assembly; commanded, from 1863 to 1869, the Queen's volunteer corps which was raised by him; private secretary to the governorin-chief of the Windward Islands, from July, 1869, to December, 1871; police magistrate, Kingstown District, 1st Jan., 1872; acted as colonial secretary of St. Vincent, in 1871 and in 1874; stipendiary Justice of the peace, British Guiana, May, 1877; is a cor responding member of the Zoological Society of London; acting administrator-general of British Guiana, January, 1881; confirmed, Nov., 1883.

HAY, C. S.-Deputy Queen's advocate, Eastern Province, Ceylon, 1868; ditto, Northern Circuit, 1878; crown council, 1st January, 1884.

HAY, SIR JOHN, K.C.M.G. (1878).-Secretary for lands and works, New South Wales, 1856-7; speaker of legislative assembly, 1862-5; President of the legislative council, 8th July, 1873.

HAY, CAPTAIN J. S.-Joined 89th Princess Victoria's regiment in 1858, served with that regiment in India during the latter part of the Mutiny; served as adjutant for some time, and afterwards as instructor of musketry; was acting adjutant to the provisional depôt battalion at Dum Dum in 1859; appointed adjutant to the Glasgow Highland Volunteers in 1868 at their formation; assistant inspector Gold Coast armed native police, 1875; district commissioner of Accra, Oct., 1875, inspector-general, Gold Coast constabulary, April, 1877; assistant colonial secretary, Gold Coast Colony, 1878; had charge of several special missions to the tribes in the interior; acting colonial

secretary from 10th Oct., 1878, to 14th Jan., 1880, and again, 9th Aug., 1880; inspector general of police, Mauritius; administrator of the Gambia, 1885.

HAY, LORAINE G.-Educated at Cheltenham College and Sandhurst; entered the army as ensign, H.M.'s 105th regiment, June, 1865; served with that regiment in India; Lieutenant, 1868; retired from the army in 1873; appointed an assistant inspector Gold Coast Constabulary, July, 1876; adjutant and instructor of musketry, April, 1877; acted on several occasions as inspector-general of that force, and as sheriff of the Gold Coast Colony; acted for a short time as colonial secretary and auditor of Lagos; appointed treasurer of Tobago, Oct., 1879; is a member of the executive and legislative councils of that island, and comptroller of customs and navigation laws, and shipping master; represented Tobago at the Telegraphic Conference held at Barbados, May, 1882; administered the government of the island temporarily in 1885. HAYNES, H. H.-Inspector of police, Barbados, Aug., 1882.

HAYNES, ROBERT. — Registrar in chancery, clerk of the crown; prothonotary and clerk of common pleas, Barbados, Dec., 1864..

HAYNES, W. LINDSAY H.-Clerk to chief justice, Bardados, 1874-1878; clerk to commis. sioners appointed to investigate offences against rioters, 1876; inland revenue officer, district "B," 1878; acting senior police magistrate, Bridgetown, 1882-83; acting-coroner of district "B," 1882-83; acting prothonotary of the court of common pleas, registrar in chancery, and clerk of the crown and peace, May, 1883, to April, 1884; acting provost marshal, March, 1884, to October, 1884; acting coroner, district "B," 1884-85; acting coroner, districi A," June, 1885.

HAYTER, HENRY HEYLYN, C.M.G. (1882)— Government statist of Victoria; was educated at the Charterhouse; entered the service of the government of Victoria in the census office, May, 1857; promoted to the registrar-general's office, Sept., 1859; placed at the head of the statistic branch of that department, Jan., 1862; was secretary to the Victorian civil service commission from 1870, until it closed its labours in 1872; during the same period, devised, superintended, and conducted to a successful issue, all operations in connection with the Victorian census of 1871; in 1872, during a short holiday spent in New Zealand, investigated, at the request of the government, the working of the registrar-general's department of that colony, and made suggestions for its improvement, for the better compilation of the statistics, and for the taking and compilation of the census, the whole of which were adopted; in May, 1874, the statistic branch of the registrargeneral's office in Victoria having been erected into a separate department, was placed at its head, with the title of government statist; immediately afterwards originated the "Victorian Year Book," which he still edits; was deputed by the government of Victoria to represent that colony at a statistical conference of the Australasian colonies held in Tasmania, 1875; edited and wrote the greater part of a "Précis of Information on the Colony of Victoria, and its capabilities for Defence," for the Intelligence Department of the War Office, 1877; visited England as secretary to a deputation from the Victorian to the Imperial government, 1879; whilst in London on that occasion was twice submitted to a lengthened examination by the official statistics committee on the subject of the statistical system he had originated in Victoria; made pre

ried out all the operations connected with the census of Victoria, 1881; was a juror at the Melbourne inter-colonial exhibition, 1875, and the Melbourne inter-national exhibition. 1881; received a silver medal from both these exhibitions for contributing a statistical sketch of the colony for the exhibition catalogue and official record of each; was a member of the social science congress held in Melbourne, 1880-81; is author of "Notes of a Tour in New Zealand," "Notes on the Colony of Victoria," of a short history and a short geography of Victoria for use in Victorian state schools; of a "Nosological Index," used throughout the Australasian colonies for classifying the causes of death; of a "Handbook to the Colony of Victoria," which has been largely distributed in the United Kingdom and elsewhere by the Victorian Government; of many papers read before scientific societies in various parts of the world; and of a great number of statistical reports and other official documents; was awarded a gold medal from the international exhibition of Amsterdam, 1883, and a silver medal from the international exhibition at Calcutta, 1884, for his statistical publications; is an officier de l'instruct on publique of France; a cavaliere dell'ordine della Corona of Italy; an honorary member of the statistical societies of London, Manchester, Paris, and Tokio; of the statistical and social inquiry society of Ireland; of the commercio-geographical society of Berlin; of the geographical society of Bremen; of the royal societies of South Australia and Tasmania; and is a fellow and the honorary corresponding secretary for Victoria of the royal colonial institute, &c.

HEAGAN, ROBERT S.-Inspector of weights and measures, Antigua, 1858; clerk to road commissioners, and secretary of the board of health, 1861; excise officer, 1864; clerk of vestries, 1871; clerk of parochial boards, 1874; is an elected member of the legislative council.

HEATH, COMMANDER G. P., R.N.-Portmaster, Queensland, 13th Jan., 1862.

HECTOR, JAMES, M.D., F.R.S., C.M.G.(1875) — Director of geological surveys and curator of the colonial museum, New Zealand.

HEIDENSTAM, DR. F. C., C.M.G. (1884).Chief medical officer, Cyprus, 1882.

HEFFERNAN, E. O.'B.-Assistant to native commissioner, Colo, Fiji, Jan., 1878; acting stipendiary magistrate, Colo, June, 1878; investigator of native titles, land claims commission, Nov., 1879.

HELMICH, A.-Postmaster-general, Western Australia; appointed 1847; was clerk to the auditor-general of the colony from 1843 to 1847, HELY HUTCHINSON, THE HONOURABLE WALTER FRANCIS, C, M.G. (1883).-Is a B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and has been called to the bar by the society of the Inner Temple. Accompanied Sir Hercules Robinson to Fiji as special attaché on the occasion of the cession of the islands to Great Britain in Sept.-Oct., 1874; private secretary to Sir Hercules Robinson, 10th Oct., 1874, for Fiji affairs; private secretary for New South Wales affairs, Jan., 1875; colonial secretary of Barbados, Nov., 1877; chief secretary to the government of Malta, 1883; and lieut.governor and chief secretary to the government, 1884.

HEMMING, A.W.L, C.M.G. (1885). Appointed after competitive examination a clerk in the office of the secretary of state for the colonies, Feb. 1860; promoted Oct. 1864, 1st junior class; private secretary to Sir F. Rogers (now Lord Blachford), 20th May, 1867, till 20th May, 1871; private

29th September, 1872; appointed a 2nd class clerk, 30th September, 1872; 1st class clerk November. 1874; private secretary to the Earl of Cadogan, 2nd March, 1878, to 30th June, 1879; sent on a special mission to Paris., April, 1879; principal clerk, ist July, 1879; again proceeded on special service to Paris, May, 1881; British delegate to the West African conference at Berlin, 1884.

HEMMING, JOHN.-Civil commissioner and resident magistrate of Albert division, Cape Colony, appointed 30th May, 1868; was clerk to C. C. and R. M., Queenstown, from 1860 to 1868; ditto at Bathurst, 1858 to 1860; ditto at Oudtshoorn, 1858; clerk to R. M. Oudtshoorn, 1857; C. C. and R. M., King William's Town, 1873; C. C. and registrar of deeds, Kimberley, till 1883; now C.C. and R.M. and registrar of deeds, King William's Town.

HENDERSON, J. T.-Shorthand reporter of debates, legislative council, Natal, 1883.

HENDERSON, JOSEPH, C.M.G. (1879), of Natal. -Was commissioner to inquire into the finances of the Transvaal.

HENDRICK, THOMAS.-Appointed clerk, Kingston circuit court, 8th June, 1871; notary public for Kingston, 7th Dec., 1872; registrar in chancery, and clerk of the patents, and clerk of the supreme court and crown, 20th Dec., 1875. The last named office is now under the Judicature Law, 1879. "Registrar of the supreme court;" is an attorney-at-law, and solicitor of the supreme court, and surrogate of the vice-admiralty court.

HENNESSY, SIR JOHN POPE, K.C.M.G. (1880), (C.M.G. 1872).-Sat in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1865, as M.P. for the King's County; was called to the bar at the Inner Temple; is a county magistrate for Ireland; governor of Labuan, April, 1867; of the West Africa Settlements, Jan., 1872; of the Bahamas, May, 1873; of the Windward Islands, 1875; of Hong Kong, 1877; of Mauritius, 1882; is a Knight of Malta. HENRY, R.Superintendent of telegraphs, Tasmania, 1 July, 1878.

HENRY, W. A.-Called to the bar, Nova Scotia, 1841; Q.C., 1849; member of executive council, 1845, subsequently solicitor-general, attorney-general, and financial secretary; a puisne judge of the supreme court of the Dominion of Canada, 8th October, 1875.

HENSLEY, J.-Vice-chancellor and assistant judge of the supreme court, Prince Edward Island, 1869.

HENSMAN, ALFRED PEACH.-Educated at University College, London; graduated as B.A. at the University of London, 1853: called to the bar at the Middle Temple, 1858; joined the midland circuit, 1860; counsel for the treasury at Leicester assizes, 1865; revising barrister, 1876; leader of the Leicestershire and Northamptonshire sessions, 1877; attorney-general of Western Australia, 1883; member of the executive councils of that colony; author of a hand-book of the English Constitution.

HEPBURN, ST. JOHN G. B.-Sub-inspector of police in the Jamaica constabulary force, 15th July, 1867; third class inspector, 1st Oct., 1870; second class inspector, 1st Oct., 1874; first class inspector 23rd April, 1878.

HERBERT, A. O.-Commissioner of railways, Queensland 28 Oct. 1864.

HERBERT, C. ST. J. S., C.B. (1863).-Some time in command of militia and volunteers in New Zealand.

HERBERT, SIR ROBERT G. W., K.C.B. (1882),

D.C.L. (Oxon.)-Educated at Eton, and at Balliol College, Oxford, of which he was elected Scholar in 1849; Hertford Scholar, 1851; Ireland Scholar, 1852; Latin Verse Prize, 1852; Eldon Scholar, 1854; elected Fellow of All Souls, 1854; private secretary to the chancellor of the exchequer (the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone), 1855; called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1858; colonial secretary of Queensland, 1859; premier of Queensland and member of legislative assembly from 1860 to 1865; One of the assistant secretaries to the Board of Trade from 1868 to Feb., 1870, when he was appointed assistant under-secretary of state for the colonies; appointed under-secretary of state for the colonies, 21 May, 1871; is a magistrate and deputy lieutenant of the county of Cambridge; appointed secretary of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, May, 1877.

HEROLD, F. W.-C.C. and resident magistrate, Bredasdorp Division, Cape Colony, 1st Sept., 1878.

HERON, DR. A.

WOODBURN.-Assistant

colonial surgeon, Gold Coast, Oct., 1885.

HERVEY, DUDLEY FRANCIS AMBLIUS.-Educated at Marlborough College; appointed to the civil service of the Straits Settlements, May, 1867; passed in Malay in November, 1868; acting private secretary to governor in March, 1869; chief clerk and interpreter to the lieut.-governor, Penang, Jan., to April, 1870; senior sworn clerk, supreme court, Singapore, Jan., 1871, also clerk in bankruptcy; justice of the peace, and to act temporarily as magistrate concurrently with his permanent appointment, Sept., 1871; appointed acting police magistrate, Malacca, Aug., 1872; re-assumed senior sworn clerkship, March, 1873, which was abolished in 1874; December, 1875, appointed acting 2nd police magistrate, Singapore; January, 1878, acting police magistrate, Province Wellesley; August, 1878, police magistrate, Malacca, but continued to act in the province; October, 1878, resumed acting 2nd magistracy, Singapore; has accompanied various expeditions to the different native states of the peninsula in the capacity of interpreter ; J.P. and magistrate for the Straits Settlements; acting resident councillor, Malacca, Feb. to Nov., 1881; resident councillor, Malacca, 19th Aug., 1882; HETHERSETT, ANDREW LANIYONU.-Outdoor officer, Lagos, in May, 1871; harbour master's clerk, 8th May, 1871; served as clerk and interpreter to a mission, under Mr. Goldsworthy, to open up the Oudo Road to the east of Lagos, and to bring home to his kingdom from exile Ode Ondo, the Ondo king, in April, 1872; headman, harbour police, 1873; harbour master's clerk, 1st May, 1875; second clerk and interpreter, administrator's office, 1st Jan., 1876; first clerk and interpreter in the same office, 1st Jan., 1879.

HEWETT, COL. EDWARD OSBORNE, R.E., C.M.G. (1883).-Commandant of the Royal Military College, Canada.

HEWETT, ROBERT D.-Appointed to the municipal department, Penang, as assessor and collector, Province Wellesley, 1874; secretary to H.M.'s resident at Perak, native states, 1879; acted as magistrate and collector at Selama and Krian, 1880; also for a short time in 1881 as police magistrate and commissioner, court of requests, Larut; and acted as superintendent, Lower Perak, June to Sept., 1881; magistrate and collector, Kinta, Oct., 1881; acting superintendent, Lower Perak, Mar., 1884; J.P. for the Straits Settlements, 1884.

HIGGINS, H.-Assistant inspector Gold Coast Constabulary, 18 Oct., 1881.

HIGGINSON, K.C.B. (Civil; creat. 1857.)--SIR JAMES MACAULAY.-Was for some years private secretary to Lord Metcalfe, in Jamaica and Canada; was governor of Antigua and the Leeward Islands, 1846 to 1850, also governor of Mauritius, 1851 to 1857.

HIGGINSON, W.-Assistant Inspector Gold Coast Constabulary, 18 Aug., 1881.

HIGINBOTHAM, G.-Puisne judge, Victoria, 19 July, 1880.

HILL, DAVID Young CAMPBELL.-Entered the service on 1st July, 1874, as sixth clerk in the Treasury, British Guiana; appointed to act as fourth clerk from 1st April, 1875, to 6th Feb., 1876; acted as first clerk from 6th Oct., 1877, to 19th May, 1878; provisionally appointed third clerk in the audit office, 20th May, 1878; acted as colonial bookkeeper from 26th Sept., 1880, to 25th March, 1881; appointed second clerk in the Treasury, 29th Sept., 1880; and chief clerk 10th Sept., 1881; reappointed to act as colonial bookkeeper, 11th Aug., 1888.

HILL, E. C. H.-Appointed a cadet in the service of the Straits Settlements, March, 1875; acting treasurer, Malacca, March to July, 1876; acting inspector of schools, June to October, 1877; acting collector of land revenue, Penang and Province Wellesley, October to December, 1877; appointed justice of the peace for the Settlements, and a magistrate for Singapore, 16th Jan., 1879; inspector of schools, 28th Mar., 1883,

HILL, P. H. R.-Appointed 16th Jan., 1867, clerk and book-keeper to the police establishment, British Guiana; senior inspector of police, 1st July, 1868; acting inspector-general of police from 26th July, 1872, to 26th April, 1873; acting stipendiary magistrate, 14th April, 1875, to Nov, 1876, and on other occasions; appointed assistant police magistrate for Georgetown, 3rd August, 1880; acting sheriff of Essequebo and stipendiary magistrate, 8th December, 1880, to 30th November, 1881; acting police magistrate of Georgetown and sheriff of Demerara, 1st December, 1881, to June, 1882.

HILL, COL. SIR STEPHEN JOHN, K.C.M.G. (1874), C.B. (1860)-Entered the army, Nov. 10, 1825; lieut. Feb. 13, 1828; captain, April 15, 1842; governor of the settlements on the Gold Coast, April 1, 1851; was promoted to a lieut.colonelcy, Feb. 3, 1854; captain-general and governor-in-chief of Sierra Leone, November 6, 1854; and consul-general in the Sherbro country, on the west coast of Africa, November 11, 1854, till Sept., 1862, when he was appointed governorin-chief of Antigua, and the Leeward Islands, Nov. 1862; became a colonel, April 6, 1857; was acting judge in the mixed commission court at Sierra Leone from Aug. 8, 1858, till Jan. 12, 1859; governor of Newfoundland, 1869; retired on pension, 1876.

HILLMAN, Jos.-Third class clerk in colonial secretary's office, Western Australia, 1867; transferred to audit office, 1868; to treasury, 1871; clerk and keeper of records in public works department, 1874.

HIME, LT.-COL. A. H. (late R.E.)-Entered the royal engineers in 1861; became captain in 1874; was employed in Bermuda under the colonial govern. ment from 1869 to 1871 in the construction of a causeway and iron swing bridge connecting the island of St. George with the main island, for the successful completion of which works received the thanks of the legislature, and also received the acknowledgments of the secretary of state for the colonies; colonial engineer of Natal, May, 1875; member of executive and legislative councils, 1876

HOBSON, HENRY PEMBERTON.-Clerk of the peace of Victoria county, Trinidad, Nov. 1860; acting clerk of the peace of Port of Spain, May, 1864; acting clerk of the income tax office, April, 1865; clerk of the peace of Port of Spain, October, 1867; acting stipendiary justice for the western district of the county of St. George, Jan., 1869: stipendiary justice of Oropouche and Moruga wards, June, 1869; has acted on several occasions as stipendiary justice of San Fernando; was for some yers warden of Moruga; is a commissioner of affidavits.

HOCKING, HENRY HICKS.-Educated at St. John's College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1864 and B.C.L. in 1867; called to the bar at the Inner Temple, Nov. 1867, and joined the Home circuit; attorney-general for Western Australia, Dec., 1872; acting chief justice, Western Australia, Aug., 1873 to Dec., 1874; and acting chief justice, Gibraltar, July to Nov., 1879; attorney-general, Jamaica, 1880.

HODGES, FREDERICK JAMES.--Civil Commissioner and resident magistrate of Peddie division, Cape Colony, 1881; was a clerk in the colonial office at the Cape, from August, 1859.

HODGSON, ARTHUR, C.M.G. (1878).-Was executive commissioner for the colony of Queensland at the Paris Exhibition, 1878; deputy-lieutenant for the county of Warwick, 13th March, 1879.

HODGSON, F.-Stipendiary magistrate, Port Louis and Moka, Mauritius, 21 Aug., 1873.

HODGSON, FREDERIC MITCHELL.-Entered the imperial post office (savings bank department) after competitive examination, Feb., 1869; was employed in the secretary's office in connection with the transfer of the telegraphs to the state, and appointed clerk in that office, 1870; appointed, after further examination, to the 3rd class (grade I) of the secretary's office, Aug., 1876; promoted to 2nd class, Aug., 1880; appointed post-mastergeneral and head of the government telegraphs, British Guiana, Jan., 1882; was senior captain of the 24th Middlesex (Post Office); captain, 1872.

HOEY, JOHN CASHEL, C.M.G. (1881).-Secretary to the London committee of the international exhibition held at Melbourne, 1880; secretary to the Victoria Government Agency in London.

HOFFMEYER, J. Master of the supreme court and guardian of orphans, Cape Colony, 1876. HOGGE, EDWARD.-Appointed inspector in the Straits Settlements police force, 1st Sept., 1871; chief inspector and acting assistant superintendent, 1st June, 1880; assistant superintendent, 1st Oct., 1882; acting superintendent, 1st April, 1883; justice of the peace for the Straits Settlements.

HOLDER, CECIL FREDERIC.- Ensign, 62nd foot, May, 1855; lieutenant by purchase, 1855; exchanged to 1st royal dragoons, 1857; captain by purchase, 1859; exchanged to the carabiniers, 1860; transferred to 14th hussars, 1865; served in India and Canada; private secretary and aide-de-camp to the governor of the Leeward Islands, 1873, with rank of lieut.-colonel; clerk to the executive council; private secretary to the governor of Trinidad, 1875 to 1880; private secretary to governor of Bardados from August to November. 1880; private secretary and aide-de-camp to governor-in-chief of the Windward Islands, June,

1885.

HOLLAND, B. H.-Passed civil service examination and appointed clerk to resident magis. trate, Bathurst, 16th Aug., 1857; clerk to resident

resident magistrate, Grahamstown, 4th Oct., 1859; chief clerk to Civil Commissioner Swellendam. 17th Aug., 1864; clerk of the peace, Grahamstown, 4th Dec., 1865; master and registrar eastern districts court, 18th April, 1872; civil commissioner and resident magistrate, Alexandria, 1st Feb., 1875, and civil commissioner and resident magistrate, Fort Beaufort, 1st Dec., 1877.

HOLLAND, RT. HON. SIR HENRY THURSTAN. BART.,M.P., K.C.M.G. (1877). (C.M.G. 1875.)—Sueceeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in Oct., 1873. Educated at Harrow and Trinity Coll.. Cambridge; was called to the bar of the Inner Temple, 16th Nov., 1849, and went the Northern Circuit; legal adviser to the office of secretary of state for the colonies, January, 1867, and assistant under-secretary of state, March, 1870. Resigned, 3rd August, 1874, and elected member for Midhurst, 22nd Sept., 1874; served as a member of the royal commission on the treatment of fugitive slaves, 1876; one of the royal commissioners on the defence of British possessions and commerce abroad, 8th Sept., 1879; secretary to the treasury, June, 1885; and vice-president of the council, Sept., 1885; returned to Parliament as member for the Hampstead division of Middlesex, 1885.

HOLLINGS, JAMES SPENCER, A.M.I.C.E.— Surveyor of roads, Montserrat, 1867; provisional member of legislative council, 1867; justice of the peace, 1868; commissioner of census, 1871; engineer of government water works, 1880; visiting justice of common gaol, 1880; member of legislative council, 1880; commissioner of valuation (under the Land Act), 1880; member of the executive council, 1884; is on the commission of inquiry into the working of the Education Acts now being held (1885).

HOLMES, HON. S. H., Q.C.-Provincial secretary and premier of Nova Scotia ; retired, 1882, and appointed prothonotary at Halifax.

HOLROYD, A. T.-called to the bar, Lincoln'sinn, 1841; minister for works in Sir J. Martin's ministry, 1863-4; master in equity, New South Wales, 1866.

HOLROYD, E. D.-Puisne judge, Victoria. HOMAGEE, JAMES FRANCIS.-Joined the judicial establishment of Saint Helena in April, 1859; has been clerk of the peace and registrar of the supreme court since 1867; in 1870 crown prosecutor and registrar of the vice-admiralty court; and in 1875 judge of the summary court and police magistrate; appointed police magistrate and collector of customs, 1883.

HONEY, J. W.-Civil commissioner and resident magistrate, Carnarvon, Cape Colony, 1 Jan., 1882.

HONG-KONG (Victoria), BISHOP OF, The Right Rev. John Shaw Burdon, D.D., 1874.

HONIBALL, OSCAR DUNSCOMBE, M.D., M.Ch., Queen's University, Ireland (Scholar in mathematics and honourman in natural philosophy).— Government medical officer, Antigua, 1868; junior and senior medical officer, public hospital, Kingston, Jamaica, 1869-1870; government medical officer, 1870-1872; medical superintendent, Immigrants' Union Hospital, St. Thomas-in-the-East, Jamaica, 1872; acted as sub-agent of immigration, 1876-1878; district medical officer, immigration department, British Guiana, in 1879; acted as medical superintendent, general leper asylum, Mahaica, 1880-1881; and medical superintendent, public hospital, Bernice, 1881-1883; is a fellow of the Obstetrical Society of Great Britain and Ireland; and a J.P. and corouer for British Guiana