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Rh THE ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE—continued. wear the badge suspended to a narrow ribbon from the neck, and have on their left side a star composed of four rays, with a small cross of eight points in saltier, of silver, surmounted by the cross of St. George, gules, and having the same centre as the Star of the Grand Crosses.

wear the small cross of the Order from a still narrower ribbon at the button-hole of their coats.

MANTLE is a Saxon-blue satin, lined with scarlet silk, tied with cordons of blue and scarlet, silk and gold, and has on the left side the Star of a Knight Grand Cross.

CHAPEAU is of blue satin, lined with scarlet, and surmounted with white and black ostrich feathers.

RIBBON of the Order—Saxon-blue with a scarlet strip.

MOTTO—AUSPICIUM MELIORIS ÆVI.

Members of the Order take rank and precedency immediately after the corresponding classes of the Order of the Star of India, that is to say, the Knights Grand Cross after Knight Grand Commanders of the Star of India; the Knights Commanders after the Knights Commanders of the Star of India, and the Companions after the Companions of the Star of India. The Grand Master is the First and Principal Knight Grand Cross. The Knights Grand Cross are entitled to bear supporters, and to encircle their arms with the collar, ribbon, and motto of the Order. The Knights Commanders also encircle their arms with the ribbon and motto, and the Companions suspend the Badge of the Order to their arms.

THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE was instituted by King George IV. when Prince Regent 27th April, 1818, by Letters Patent, under the Great seal of Great Britain, in commemoration of the Republic of the Ionian Islands being placed under the protection of Great Britain. The Order was enlarged and extended 4 December, 1868, and 30 May, 1877, for the natural bora subjects of the United Kingdom as may have held or shall hold high and confidential offices within Her Majesty’s colonial possessions; and again, 1879, by the admission of persons rendering good service to the Crown in relation to the Foreign Affairs of the British Empire.

The Order is to consist of not more than fifty Knights Graud Cross, exclusive of Extra and Honorary Members, one hundred and fifty Knights Commanders, and two hundred and sixty Companions.

SOVEREIGN OF THE ORDER—THE QUEEN.

GRAND MASTER AND FIRST OR PRINCIPAL KNIGHT GRAND CROSS,

H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.

KNIGHTS GRAND CROSS. G.C.M.G.

H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES.

H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.

H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT AND STRATHEARN.

H.R.H. PRINCE LEOPOLD, DUKE OF ALBANY (extra).

Sir Adriano Dingli, C.B.
 * Sir Demetrio Conte Salomon
 * Sir George Fergusson Bowen
 * Sir-Pietro-Armeni Braila
 * Sir Patrick Grant, G.C.B.
 * Sir Edward Victor Lewis Houlton
 * Viscount Monck
 * Earl Grey, K.G.
 * Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B.
 * Sir John Peter Grant, K.C.B.
 * Lieut.-Gen. Sir Garnet, Joseph Wolseley, G.C.B.
 * Capt. Sir John Hawley Glover
 * Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson
 * H.H. the Maharaja of Johore (Hon.)
 * Earl of Dufferin, K.P.
 * Marquis of Normanby
 * Lieut.-Gen. Sir-Arthur Puryes Phayre, K.C.S.I. C.B.
 * The Hon. Sir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon
 * Major.-Gen. Sir William F. Drummond Jervois, C.B.
 * Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt
 * The King of Siam (Hon.)
 * Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, K.C.B.
 * The Marquis of Lome, K.T.
 * Sir John Rose, Bart.
 * Viscount Lyons, G.C.B.
 * Lord Ampthilt, G.C.B
 * Sir Antonio Micallef.
 * Sir Charles Lennox Wyke, K.C.B.
 * H.E. Nubar Pasha (Hon.)
 * Sir Richard Wood, C.B.
 * Gen. Sir Arthur Borton, K.C.B.
 * H.M. King Kalakaua, of the Hawaiian Islands (Hon.)
 * Sir Arthur—Edward—Kennedy, C.B.
 * Major Gen. Sir Henry St. George Ord, C.B.
 * Sir-Harry Smith Parkes, K.C.B

OFFICERS OF THE ORDER.

Prelate of the Order—The Right Rev. Dr. Charles Perry, formerly Bishop of New Zealand.

Chancellor of the Order—Charles Cox, Esq.

Secretary—Robert George Wyndham Herbert, Esq.

King of Arms—Sir Albert W. Woods, Garter principal King of Arms.

Registrar—Hon. Robert Henry Meade.

Chancery of Order.—Colonial Office.