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WHO'S WHO IN THE FAR EAST (June) 1986-7.

Inspector of Prisons, Singapore, and Senior District. Officer,

Province Wellesley, 196. Address:

Province Wellesley, Straits Settle-

ments.

HALL, John Carey (YOKOHA MA ),

M.A., I.S.O.; H.B.M. Consul

General; b. Jan. 22, 1844, at Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, 8. of

John Hall of Coleraine and Port-

rush, Co. Antrim; m. 1876, Agnes, d. of Charles Wyclif Goodwin,

Assistant Judge of H.B.M. Supreme Court for China and

Јаран. Educ. : Coleraine Aca- demical Institution; Queen's College, Belfast.

Belfast. Appointed

Student Interpreter in Japan, Dec. 24, 1867; employed in assisting Japanese Prisons Commission, 1871; acting Vice-Consul at Yedo (Tokyo) for some while; 1st class Assistant,

April 1, 1877; called to Bu at Middle Temple, June 29, 1881; Assistant Japanese Secretary at Tokyo, April 1, 1882; acting Consul at Nagasaki, 1882, 1883, 1884, and 1886; acting Japanese Secretary at Tokyo, 1884 to 1886; acting Registrar and Interpreter, Yoko- hama Court, 1886; acting Consul

at Yokohama, 1886 to 1888; acting Judge in Court for Japan at. Yokohama, 1888; acting assistant Judge in Supreme Court for China and Japan at Shanghai, 1888 to 1889; promoted Consul for Hakodate and Niigata, Oct. 1, 1888; acting Consul at Nagasaki, 1890 to 1892; at Yokohama, 1895 to 1896; transferred to Tamsui (For-

mosa), Feb. 4, 1896; Consul for Hiogo an Osaka, Aug. 21, 1896; Consul for Consular District of

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Hiogo and cities of Kyoto and

:

Osaka, July 28, 1897 Senior Member of Commission to prepare case in Arbitration proceeding before Hague Tribunal between Great Britain, France, and Ger-

many,

and Japan, respecting interpretation of an Article in their Treaties relating to leases in perpetuity in late Foreign Settle- ments in Japan, Sept. 20, 1902; promoted Consul-General for Con- sular District of Kanagawa, May 21, 1903. Publications: General

View of Chinese Civilization,

translated from the French of

Pierre Laffitte. Clubs Royal Societies; Yokohama United. Ad- dress: H.B.M. Consulate, Yoko-

hama, Japan.

HALLIFAX, Edwin Richard (HONG-

KONG), B.A., Oxon.; ('ivil Service; b. Feb. 17, 1874. Educ.: Blundell's School; Balliol's College, Oxford. Appointed Cadet in Hongkong Civil Service Oct., 1897; arrived in Colony, Jan., 1898; Police Magistrate, Hong- kong, Dec., 1899; Assistant Superin- tendent of Police and Police Magistrate, New Teritory, Sept., 1899 ; acting Registrar General, 1902; acting Captain Superintendent of Police, Superintendent of Gaol and Superintendent of Fire Brigade, March, 1904; seconded as Transvaal Emigration Agent at Chinwantao, March, 1905. Address: Hongkong.

HALLIFAX, F. J. (PENANG), Magistrate. Cadet, Straits Settlements, March, 1893; passed final examination in Malay, 'June, 1894; acting District Officer, Penang, April, 1896, and Malacca, Nov., 1896; Superinten-

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