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 where he obtained an exhibition to Queen's College, Oxford, of which he was Michel Exhibitioner from 1841 to 1845, Scholar 1845 to 1848, and Fellow 1848 to 1851. He proceeded B.A. (first class Lit. Hum.) in 1845, M.A. in 1848, and was ordained deacon in 1847 and priest in 1848. From 1847 to 1848 he was curate of Bussage, Gloucestershire, and in 1848-9 headmaster of St. Nicholas' College, Shoreham. In 184950 he was curate of All Saints', Poplar, and in Dec. 1850 arrived at Lyttelton, N.Z., as classical professor of the college which it was proposed to open in the new settlement of Canterbury, where he performed the first Church of England service. In April 1852 Mr. Jacobs became headmaster of the Christ's College Grammar School, and remained so till 1863, when he became incumbent of the parish of Christchurch. In 1864, having declined the bishopric of Nelson, he was made archdeacon, and in June 1866 he became Dean of Christchurch. He has been sub-warden of Christ's College since 1853, and was incumbent of St. Michael and All Angels', Christchurch, from 1863 to 1873. In August 1880 he took the degrees of B.D. and D.D. of the University of Oxford by accumulation. Dr. Jacobs visited England, for the first time since his departure to New Zealand, in 1890. The Dean was married firstly, at All Saints', Poplar, London, on August 29th, 1850, to Miss Charlotte Emily Corrick; and secondly, at St. Michael and All Angels', Christchurch, N.Z., on April 20th, 1871, to Miss Emily Rose Thompson. He has published poems, and a volume from his pen descriptive of the Church of England in New Zealand was published by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, in their "Colonial Church Histories" series in 1889.

James, John Charles Horsey, B. A., Commissioner of Land Titles, Western Australia, son of the Rev. John James, was born at Home in 1841, and educated at Rugby and at Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1864. He entered at the Inner Temple, was called to the bar in Nov. 1866, and practised on the Oxford Circuit. He was appointed Commissioner of Titles in Western Australia on July 9th, 1875, acting also as Master of the Supreme Court and Registrar in Bankruptcy from Feb. 1876 to August 1877, and from Nov. 1879 to March 1880. He married, in 1885, Rebecca Catherine, elder daughter of Charles Hippuff Clifton, J.P. of Perth, W.A., and Maria Glyn, his wife.

Jardine, Alexander William, M.I.C.E., F.R.G.S., J.P., son of the late John Jardine, 3rd son of the 6th baronet, of Applegirth, Dumfriesshire, was bora on Nov. 9th, 1845, near Sydney, N.S.W., and educated at the Sydney Grammar School. In 1864-5 he conducted, with his elder brother Francis Lascelles, an overland expedition from Rockhampton in Queensland to Cape York, for which he was awarded the "Murchison Grant" of the Royal Geographical Society, London, and elected a fellow. At the end of 1865 he entered the Queensland Civil Service as Roads Engineer, and in 1868 he was appointed Foreman of Works, and surveyed and formed the main road from Brisbane to the Gympie Goldfields. In 1874 he was appointed Engineer of Roads and Bridges for Central Queensland, and when that office was abolished in 1880 he became Superintending Engineer of the Fitzroy River Navigation Works, and shortly afterwards Superintending Engineer of the Central and Northern Harbour and River Works. In 1882 he was elected Associate M.I.C.E., London, and in 1884 he was elected M.I.C.E. He was offered and declined the post of Chief Engineer of Bridges, and in 1889 was appointed Deputy Engineer of Harbours and Rivers, and on the retirement of Mr. Nisbet in September of the same year, became acting Chief Engineer in the same department. He is a fellow of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, and of other scientific bodies. Mr. Jardine married in 1883 Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald Mossman and sister of Ladies McIlwraith and Palmer.

Jarvis, Arthur Harwood, the well-known cricketer, is the third son of R. Jarvis, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, who emigrated to South Australia in 1856, and settled at Hindmarsh, where the subject of this notice was born on Oct. 18th, 1860. He made his début on the Adelaide Oval in Jan. 1877, and was the highest scorer the first season he joined the first eleven of South Australia. He is the champion wicket-keeper of that colony, a first-rate batsman, and its best all-round cricketer, 247