On Tuesday, the 25th inst., at a meeting the Legislative Council, BLE, Sir Wi neon. officially announced appointment of his successor, Sir Henry, Smith, Colonial Treasurer, is also gain, Blake, and: stated that' he would leave the Colony on the 1st of February next. He men will then set in. added that—Sir -Henry—Blake, after his lengthy administration in Jamaica (between eight and nine years), would probably apply 11 o'clock His Excellency for some months' leave of absence. In the, 1 Robinson performed an isteresinterregnum, Major-General Wilsone Black ting function, the last of the kind' he will would administer the government here. officiate' at in Hongkong. He laid "the His Excellency then went on to thank the foundation of a new Reformatory at Cause~ members of Council for the kindness and way Bay, to which I alluded in my Inst consideration he had always received from letter. 'The Governor made an interesting them, and in wishing them farewell he speech, eulogising Mr. Belilios' for his hoped that every success would attend them generosity' in providing the funds for the in the future. The unofficial members (with erection of this institution. Mr: Belilios the exception of Mr. Whitehead, who was absent) got up, one after the other, and in contribute't the cause of education, and exprowed the pleasure it afforded him to brief speeches, all cast in the same mould, hoped the Reformatory would be the means strestiog many lads on the' downward him all. ess and prosperity in the future. bade Sir William Robinson farewell, wishing path, to which incarceration in the gaol was and eulogising his fairness and impartiality apt to hurry them. 'The cost of the building in presiding over the Council, the ability is estimat at $10,000. The' Government shown in his administration, and the genial found the site, interest he had uniformly manifested in
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