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SEPT. 14; 1895 THE COLONIES AND INDIA: Geer has received the appointment of Archdeacon of The Lachlan. The Rev. J. Young has been appointed Canon of All Saints' Cathedral, Bathurst (N.S.W.) Mr.

Justice Withers, of Ceylon, lately returned to Colombo from an enjoyable trip round the Australian Colonies, of which part of the world the learned judge speaks in the highest terms, having enjoyed his trip thoroughly, and met with hospitable treatment wherever he touched. Mr. Skertchly, of Hong Kong, has gone down to Queensland to take up the post of Government Geologist in that Colony. Mr. Skertchly's name is well known in geological and scientific circles generally, and the Queensland Government is to be congratulated on having secured his services.

Mr. Skertchley, during his stay in North Borneo, explored the Upper Segama, and on several occasions crossed from the Kinabatangan by the Etok Batu road to the Middle Segama. He is a man of great energy and ability. The Cape Government has appointed a Geological Commission, which is to spend some years in a thorough exploration, of the Colony. Colonel Wahis, Governor-General of the Congo Free State, embarked, on September 8, at Antwerp on board the steamer Edward Bohlen on his return to the Congo State.

The Philomel left Sierra Leone on September 10 for Accra, Oil Rivers, and Fernando Po, and is due to arrive at Loanda on September 30. The Hon. C. Bishop, J.P., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Sierra Leone, and Mr. J.

H. Thomas, J.P., are now in London on a holiday. Mr. Leslie, the Native Commissioner at Buluwayo, has left the service of the Chartered Company to go to Natal. He is to be succeeded at Buluwayo by Mr.

Lanning. The cruiser Blanche was commissioned at Devonport on September 10, by Commander P. Hoskyns, for special service. She will convey a new crew to the Cape of Good Hope for the Blonde, which will be recommissioned for further service at the Cape and West Coast Station. The vacant post of Chief Justice of Sierra Leone has been filled by the appointment of Mr.

Edward Bruce Hindle to that important office. Mr. Hindle was educated at Stockport Grammar School, and also at Owens College. He was called to the Bar in 1879, and nine years later was appointed District Commissioner of the Gold Coast Colony. In the following year he became Sheriff and Attorney-General.

The King of the Hellenes has cancelled the commission of Mr. Waldemar Ruge as Greek Consul at Kingston, Jamaica. Sir Henry Blake, Governor of Jamaica, has lately been making another extensive tour through that island, and making speeches as well. Ceylon is not for Sir Henry, after all the talk, and perhaps it will be that he will not fare so well at the hands of Mr. Chamberlain as his friends expected.

A story is going the rounds that the Jamaica Governor had an official snubbing the other day over the leave of absence which he applied for, in an off-hand manner, it is said. It was going about for some time in Jamaica that Sir Henry was coming home on leave, and, according to rumour, he deferred applying for permission till the day before the departure of the packet, when he wired over, evidently in the fullest confidence that he would have a satisfactory reply. The reply was not satisfactory, however. The Governor was reminded that he had already enjoyed some extra terms of leave, and that he could not get away at present unless on short pay. So he stopped.

The Hon. J. T. Orrett has resigned his position as a of the Jamaica Privy Council, and Colonel C. J.

Ward, Custom of Kingston, has been appointed in his place. LetterB reached the Admiralty on September 10 from the Commander-in-Chief on the North America and West Indies Station, dated up to August 31. The Hon. J. M.

Gibson, Provincial Secretary of the Central Prison at Toronto, has ordered an investigation into the management of that institution, in consequence of some serious charges having been made against several of the officials. The following gentlemen have been selected by the Canadian Government to attend the International Irrigation Convention at Albuquerque, New Mexico, on September 16 to 19 Messrs. A. M. Burgess, Deputy Minister of the Interior; William Pierce, Superintendent of Mines and John Dennis, General Inspector.

Mr. John Fletcher, M.A., of Queen's College, Kingston, has been appointed Professor of Classics at University College, Toronto. Mr. Eberts, Attorney-General of British Columbia, issued an order the other day for the arrest of Mr. J.

C. Prevost, Registrar of the Supreme Court of tLat Province. Mr. PrevoBt was missing at the time, and it was thought that he had left for Australia on the Warrimoo. He is a son of Sir James Prevost, Admiral of the Boyal Navy, and a grandson of Sir George Prevost, an early Canadian Governor, who took a prominent part in the war of 1812.

Mr. Juan Morphy Hermet has been appointed Spanish Consul at Gibraltar. Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, who has been appointed Governor of Ceylon in place of Sir Arthur Havelock, is the son of tho late Rev. Joseph Ridgeway, of Tunbridge Wells. Born in 1844, he entered the Indian Army as ensign in 1861, attaining the rank of colonel in 1885.

He served in the: Afghan war in 1879-80, his services being several times acknowledged in dispatches. He was Under-Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department between 1880 and 1884, and in the last-mentioned year he was appointed Assistant Commissioner for the demarcation of the North-Western boundary of Afghanistan. For his services in this undertaking he received the thanks of the Viceroy and of Her Majesty's Government. In the following year he was appointed Commissioner for the delimitation of the Afghan frontier between the Heri Rud and the Oxus. In 1887 Sir West Ridgeway filled the post of Under- Secretary at Dublin Castle, and in 1802 he was sent as Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary on a special mission to the Sultan of Morocco.

In the following year he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, a position which he still holds. The Leander sails from Colombo on September 12. The Officer Administering the Government at Penang has bad to exercise his discretionary power in regard to a peculiar application on the part of a Cadet in the Province Wellesley. The Cadet put in a voucher for C5c, which he disbursed in sampan and 'riksha hire in going to attend a garden party at the Residency on the Queen's Birthday. Mr.

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