§ Treasury Minutes—
- I. Declaring that the following persons were appointed without civil service certificates through inadvertence on the part of the heads of their departments, viz: —
- 1. John Cartwright, postman, Birmingham (12th September 1898);
- 2. J. C. D. D. Cotman, postmaster, Hinckley (23rd December 1898);
- 3. Emanuel Dale, postmaster, Brig-house (17th January 1899);
- 4. Lydia A. Davis, sub-postmistress, Broadway, Evesham (18th October 1898);
- 5. William Harris, rural postman, Newton Abbott (30th September 1898);
- 6. Cornelius W. Homar, engineer-in-charge of machinery at Netley, Control Department, War Office (9th. August 1898);
- 7. Reuben Searle, auxiliary postman Woolwich (24th September 1898);
- 8. Joseph Ullger, established police constable, Gibraltar Naval Yard, in the service of the Admiralty (20th January 1899).
- II. Granting retiring allowance to the following persons, viz.: —
- 1. T. J. Brenan, telegraphist, Glasgow (6th January 1899);
- 2. T. B. Girdlestone, senior clerk, Naval Store Branch, Controllers Department, Admiralty (7th September 1898);
- 3. Michael O'Donnell, assistant of Excise, Liverpool Collection (22nd November 1898);
- 4. E. W. Ruegg, superintending clerk, Victualling Department, Admiralty (6th September 1898);
- 5. John Cornish West, messenger in, the Exchequer and Audit Department (29th October 1898).
- III. Declaring that professional or other peculiar qualifications not ordinarily acquired in the public service are required for the due and efficient discharge of the duties of the office of assistant professor in Mineralogy in the Royal College of Science;
- IV. Dated 22nd November 1898, declaring Bussorah to be an unhealthy place for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts, 1859 and 1876.