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1883-1890; Special

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Service

Work in Krian, 1893; assistant Engineer and Town Surveyor, Ipoh, Lower Perak, and Batang Padang, 1894-1899; Executive Engineer, Lower Perak, 1901; assistaut an Executive En- gineer, Lower Perak and Klang, 1903-1904. Address: Lower Perak, Federated Malay States.

WARNER, William Hamilton Lee (KINTA), B. A., Oxon.; Federat- ed Malay States Civil Service; b. Oct. 14, 1880. Passed in Law and Malay; acting assist- ant District Officer, Ulu Langat, and acting assistant Collector of Land Revenue, Kuala Lumpur, 1904-1905; Inspector of Schools and Secretaryto Sanitary Beard, Seremban, April, 1905; Land Office, Kinta, Perak, 1906. Address: Kinta,Perak, Federat- ed Malay States.

WATANABE, Viscount Noboru (Tokyo); b. April, 1838. Held posts as local Governor in civil service; Chief of Board of Audit, 1884-1900; is famous as master of swordsmanship; created Viscount, 1887. Ad- dress: Tokyo, Japan.

WATASE, Torajiro (Tokyo), Agriculturist; b. 1860, at Nu- mazu. Educ.: Sapporo Agric. Coll. Was connected with educational work at Tokyo and in provinces; started business as sced-grower and importer

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quisites; its in Muni ipal Council of Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan.

WAWN, John Twizell (Tokyo), Asst. Japanese Sec. . B. M. Embassy. Appointed Student Interpreter in Japan, June 3, 1896 ; Ag. Consul at Tamsui 1901 to 1902; promoted 1st Asst.. May 2, 1903; Asst. Jap. Sec., II. B. M. Embassy, Tokyo, 1996. Address: H. B. M. Embassy, Tokyo, Japan.

WEI KUANG-TAO (FUkien), ex-Governor-General; native of Hunan. Judge, Kansu, Feb., 1881; Treasurer, Karsu, April, 1883; do., New Dominion, Nov., 1884; has acted as Gover- nor of Turkestan; permitted to retire, June, 1891; Trea- surer, Kwangsi, June, 1895; Governor, Yunnan, August, 1895; Governor, Shensi, Oct., 1895; Governor-General, Shen- Kan. Sept., 1900; do., Yun- Kuei, (Viceroy at Yunnan), Dec., 1900; do., Liang-Kiang, Dec., 1902; do., Fukien, Min- Che provinces, October, 1904; removed from office, 1904.

WEN-HAI

(PEKING), (PEKING), Sub- Chancellor, Grand Secretariat ; native of Manchuria; metrop.. graduate, 1889. Reader, Han- lin, May, 1896; Asst. Super- viser of Instruction, December, 1896; Chief, do., March, 1900; Sub-Chancellor, Grand Secret- ariat, Summer, 1901.