of Mr. GD. Burgess on -his way home to "England on leave, Mr. Burgess had for several years held this the highest judicial post la Upper Burma, and, by his extraordinary ability and. capacity for work, had produced law and order out of the chaotic confusion that characterised the decisions of the Burmese Courts on points of Buddhist Law, before the annexation. It is a significant fact carries with it higher pay than that of that the appointment in Upper. Burma
Judicial Commissioner in Lower' Burma, and no doubt, the work of supervision in the newer country is very heavy, and calls for constant, eyre. Mr. Burgess worked from early mommy. till night, and there isno doubt that this unremitting toil, from which he never spared himself, was the cause of the ill-health from which he suffered oon At last he was obliged to take furlough, having been reduced toa mere shadow of his former self through acute'dysnepsia, and on the first night out from Rangoon he was missed from the steamer. There can be no doubt that ho fell overboard at night, fan but the facts will most probably rebably owing to a sudden attack of
never be known, as none saw what happened to him.
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