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 liberal salary attached to the office—£1,500 a year—from July, 1853, to the end of the following year, when the assay department was abolished. He afterwards started farming near Malmesbury, combining it with the practice of his profession, but the farming enterprise proving pecuniarily unsuccessful, he removed to Malmesbury, and devoted himself exclusively to his medical practice and the education of his family. He also took an active part in local affairs, was for many years a member of the borough council, several times mayor, and for more than twenty years an active justice of the peace.  J. W. Jenkinson, A.M.I.C.E., HO died at Pernambuco, on March 10, 1885, was a young man of great engineering talent and for some years on the staff of the Hydraulic Engineer's Department in this colony, where he had charge of the outside works. He began his professional career in the establishment of Messrs. Simpson & Co., the celebrated makers of pumping machinery and waterworks appliances in London, and in 1879 came to South Australia, having, at the request of Mr. Oswald Brown, the late Hydraulic Engineer, been engaged by the Government as draftsman. Whilst here he made himself so useful in the department, and displayed such great practical knowledge of all the details of water supply, that his position was soon improved, and at the time of his leaving the colony he was in receipt of a salary of £525 per annum. By his aid the Adelaide water works were made a remunerative undertaking. He left the colony with a view to devote his time to more extensive works, in September 1884, and on arrival in Brazil was placed in charge of the construction of important reservoirs for the supply of water to Pernambuco. This under-