Mr. Edgar Hall Carew , Stipendiary Magistrate, Goldfields' Warden, Commissioner of the Native Land Court, and Coroner at Dunedin, also Chairman of the Licensing Committees of Dunedin, Chalmers, Caversham, and Taieri, was born in London. Educated at private schools in England, he page 236 entered mercantile life as a lad, and came out to the Victorian goldfields in the fifties. Arriving in Otago towards the end of 1862, Mr. Carew had a short experience on the local diggings, and early in 1864 joined the Government service as mining registrar and clerk of the court at the Nevis goldfield. Seven years later he was appointed resident magistrate and warden at Blacks, being afterwards transferred to the Dunstan, and in 1873 to Lawrence, where he had charge of the Tuapeka goldfield. He has held his present offices at Dunedin since 1881. In 1867 Mr. Carew was married to the eldest daughter of Mr. Charles Broad, long Warden of Mount Ida goldfield; this lady died in 1874. and nine years later Mr. Carew was married to the fourth daughter of the same gentleman, and has one daughter and one son.

Mr. William George Pring O'Callaghan , Clerk of the Magistrate's and Warden's Courts, Mining Registrar, and Receiver of Gold Revenue, was born in Mayence, Germany, in September, 1842. He was educated at the Royal Naval School, New-cross, near London, and became a cadet in the Royal Navy in 1855. Mr. O'Callaghan has had an interesting naval and military career, served in the Russian and China wars, and afterwards in the New Zealand Militia during the Maori war. He was on board H.M.S. “Exmouth” in the Baltic at the bombardments of Sveaborg and Narva, and served on the Canton river in H.M.S. “Encounter,” at the taking of the Bogue forts; he was subsequently engaged in the capture of the French folly fort, the destruction of a fleet of junks, the attack on Canton in 1856, and at the final storming and capture of that city in the following year in H.M.S. “Actæon,” when Captain W. T. Bate of that ship was killed. He was present at the attack on the town of Santiang, at which place Captain R. Jenkins, who succeeded Captain Bate, was severely wounded, receiving no fewer than seven bullet wounds. Mr. O'Callaahan was a midshipman on board H.M.S. “Retribution” when she formed one of the squadron which proceeded up the Yangtse Kiang river in 1858, the other ships being H.M.S. “Furious,” with the flag of Lord Elgin, Plenipotentiary Extraordinary, H.M.S. “Cruiser,” and the gunboats “Lee” and “Dove.” The Yangtse Kiang river had been opened to British trade by the treaty of Tientsin, and Lord Elgin determined to prove the bona fides of the Chinese by pushing on to Hankow. At that time Nankin and many other towns on the river were in the hands of the Taeping rebels, and in these places the ships had to fight their way through. Before that time no ship had ever been beyond Nankin. At Nankin the “Retribution” lost one man killed, and had one officer and two men wounded. The expedition arrived safely at Hankow, where it became an object of great interest to the Chinese. After leaving China Mr. O'Callaghan served in H.M.S. “Aboukir,” 91 guns, in the Channel fleet, and H.M.S. “Miranda.” On leaving the Navy in 1863, with the rank of midshipman, he sailed for Auckland in the ship “Queen of Beauty” and joined the Militia, in which he served four years and a half. His first duty was to go to Sydney, New South Wales, to join the New Zealand gunboat “Pioneer,” then fitting out there for service in the Waikato river, as first officer under Captain Breton (late R.N.), and to bring her over to New Zealand. As lieutenant in the Wanganui Rangers, he was present at the occupation of Opotiki (after the murder by Kereopa of the Rev. C. Volkner), the engagement at Kiorikino, and other minor skirmishes, and afterwards saw active service at Patea. On the disbandment of his regiment in 1867, Mr. O'Callaghan engaged in mining on the Thames goldfield, and after two years went to England. On returning in 1870, he joined the Armed Constabulary, and served a year in the Waikato; he was afterwards for some months a clerk under the Auckland Provincial Government. In September, 1872, Mr. O'Callaghan was appointed clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Papakura, and in June, 1874, was transferred to a similar position at Onehunga. In 1884 the appointment of assistant clerk in the Auckland Court was added to his other duties. In the following year Mr. O'Callaghan was appointed clerk of the Magistrate's Court and deputy registrar of the Supreme Court at Invercargill. In June, 1887, he was transferred to Blenheim in a similar capacity, and also as sheriff, having subsequently to perform as well the duties of registrar of electors, returning officer, and registrar of births, marriages and deaths. In March, 1894, he was appointed sheriff, deputy registrar of the Supreme Court, and clerk of the District and Magistrate's Court at New Plymouth; and received his present appointments in February, 1897. Mr. O'Callaghan holds the Baltic medal, the China medal with Canton clasp, and the New Zealand medal. As a Freemason under the New Zealand Constitution, he was two years Master of Wairau Lodge, and is now a member of Lodge Hiram, Dunedin, and is a Past First Principal of the Otago Chapter No. 7. Mr. O'Callaghan was married, in 1870, to a daughter of Mr. John Kelly, of Mount Eden, Auckland. This lady died in 1883, leaving two sons and one daughter. In 1885 he married a daughter of Mr. J. Wayland, of Onehunga, and one son and one daughter have been born of this union.

Mr. William Scale , Clerk of the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court at Collingwood, Nelson, and formerly of Dunedin, was born in 1843 at Pembroke, South Wales, where he was educated at the Collegiate School, Pembroke Dock. He entered the Royal Artillery at the Woolwich riding school page 237 in 1858 where he continued till August, 1863, when he was attached to the F. Battery of the C Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, then stationed at Lucknow in the North West provinces of India. Mr, Scale served in India till December. 1860, when he left the service on his return to England. He sub-sequently engaged in business as a wine, spirit and coal merchant. In 1874, he landed in Queensland, and joined the mounted police in Brisbane as drill instructor to the force. In December of the following year, he arrived in Wellington, and joining the Police Force, was appointed to a new station at Castle Point, and was subsequently stationed at Masterton, where he became bailiff of the Magistate's court for Wairarapa in 1879. After being transferred to Oamaru, and afterwards back to Masterton he was appointed in 1896 to Dunedin, whence he was promoted to his present position. Mr. Scale was married in May, 1873, to a daughter of the late Colonel C. F. Holmes, of the Imperial army, who was at St. Helena during the Emperor Napoleon's exile there, and served twenty-six years in India. Mr. Scale's only son is correspondence clerk at the Wellington Meat Export Company's head office.