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the tropics ; descriptions or advertisements of sanitary appliances of all kinds, and of sanitary works required for the tropics ; and, it is hoped, comparative health statistics of many countries, properly analysed by experts, and notes on such medical, parasitological, and entomological researches as have a bearing on hygiene. It will not contain purely biological articles on pathology, parasitology, and entomology, and will therefore not clash with journals which are devoted to their study ; but it will confine itself to their application in the fields of endemiology and the prevention of disease. Original articles will be accepted, if they are found suitable, from all workers, and efforts will be made to record points oi local interest and importance. It is therefore felt that the Annals will serve a long-felt want, and will be of use to all sanitary officers in the tropics—to municipalities, to principal medical officers, to administrators, to medical officers of the army and navy, to sanitary engineers, to missionaries, to the heads of factories and plantations, and to many private persons. At present there appears to be no journal published, at least in English, which meets this want; and it is therefore hoped that the Annals of Tropical Sanitation will receive strong support from all those who are interested in the subject. Much preparation is required before such a venture can be put on the market; and intending subscribers are therefore begged to send their name and address at once to the editor at the University of Liverpool (without enclosing any remittance). Such notice will not be held binding upon them in any way, but is required merely to enable the editor to estimate the extent of the demand which will have to be met. It is hoped that Governments, municipalities, and companies working in the tropics will assist by ordering copies. Applications for space for advertisements should also be sent to the editor as soon as possible.

No. 48. New Zealand, No. 165. My Loed,— Downing Street, 31st May, 1912. I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of your Ministers, that His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir E. Bickham Sweet Escott, K.C.M.G., Governor of the Leeward Islands, to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, in place of Sir Francis Henry May, K.C.M.G., who has been appointed to be Governor of Hong Kong. 2. Sir E. B. Sweet Escott is due to arrive in the colony on or about 20th July. I have, &c, L. HARCOURT. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, K.C.M.G., D.5.0., &c.

No. 49. New Zealand, Miscellaneous. My Lord, — Downing Street, Ist June, 1912. With reference to your Lordship's despatch, No. 55, of the 24th April last, I have the honour to request that you will inform your Prime Minister that His Majesty the King has been pleesed to approve of the retention of the title of " Honourable" by Sir James Carroll, K.C.M.G., Mi. John Andrew Millar, Mr. Roderick McKenzie, Mr. David Buddo, and Mr. Apirana Turupa Ngata, who have each served for more than three years as members of the Executive Council of the Dominion of New Zealand. A notification to this effect will be published in the London Gazette. I have, &c, L. HARCOURT. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, K.C.M.G., D.5.0., &c.

No. 50. New Zealand, No. 170. My Loed, — Downing Street, 7th June, 1912. With reference to your telegram of the 4th instant, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Ministers, copy of a letter which I have caused to be addressed to Sir W. Hall-Jones on his retirement from the appointment of High Commissioner for New Zealand in London. I have, &c, L. HARCOURT. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, K.C.M.G., D.5.0., &c.