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1889; Administrator, 1st class, Aug. I, 1892. Decoration: Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. Address: Saigon, Cochin-China.


DE MELLO, Aloysius (SINGAPORE), Straits Settlements Civil Service; b. Nov. 8, 1880. Appointed to Colonial Secretary's Office as Acting Chief Clerk, April, 1904; transferred to Chinese Protectorate, Singapore, Nov., 1904; is Magistrate for Singapore; studied Chinese at Canton. Address: Singapore, Straits Settlements.


DE MIRIBEL, Marie Joseph (HANOI), Resident; Administrator, 1st class; b. Feb. 15, 185S. Joined Indo-China Civil Service, Sept. 11, 1890; Administrator 4th class Sept. II, 1898; Administrator, 3rd class, July 14, 1894; Administrator, 2nd class, Jan. 1, 1890; Administrator, 1st class, Jan., 1, 1902; Decoration: Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. Address: Hanoi, Tonkin, Indo-China.


DEMPSTER, Capt. Herbert Thomas (KUALA LUMPUR), Company Commander, Malay States Guides; b, May 26, 1882. Wing officer, Malay States Guides, 1902; Company Commander, 1904. A ddress: Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Federated Malay States.


DENHAM, John Edward (SHANGHAI), Architect; b. Feb. 7, 1875; m. 1901, Gladys, e. d. of John Smedley, Architect and Painter. Educ.: Hele's School, Exeter. Articled to Edward George Warren, Architect; for seven years held appointment as Architect to the Shanghai Municipality; 1901 joined partnership in the firm of John Smedley and Son, Architects, Shanghai and Chefoo. Address: Shanghai, China.


DENING, Walter (SENDAI), Professor of English in 2nd High School, Sendai; Journalist; b. July 23, 1846; m. 1870 and 1891. Educ.: Taignton, Devonshire, and Church Missionary College, London. Ordained in 1869; priest in Mauritius, 1870; missionary, under Church Missionary Society at Andoverante, Madagascar, 1870-73; missionary under Church Missionary Society |at Hakodate, 1874; relinquished holy orders, Nov. 17. 1885, and joined Japanese Education Department; appointed Lecturer in Ethics at High Normal School; joined the Naval Department as teacher of English at Naval Academy in 1890; became Editor of "Japan Gazette," 1891; went to Australia in 1892; engaged in farming at Healesville, Victoria, for three years; returned to Japan in July, 1895, and took up present post. Decorations: 5th order of Rising Sun. Publications: " Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi," 1888; "Japan in Days of Yore," 1888, (2nd edition, enlarged, 1905); " New Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi," 1904; "High School Series of English Readers ";"Anglo-Japanese Readers"; "Short Japanese and Chinese Stories," and numerous contributions to periodicals. Address: Sendai, Japan.


DENNYS, Frederick Onslow Brooke (SUNGKAI), Assistant Conservator of Forests; b. Oct. 31, 1873. Forest Inspector at Selangor, 1902; acting