bepartment had trebled or quadrupled be* 
tweeb 1875 and 1897 ; and, being a corpulent 
full-blooded man, he latterly felt the weight 
of inspection duties in a tropical climate, 
but lor which he might have remained 
longer at his post. Another reason why he 
retired in the year he did, was that the 
Office of Physician and Mediciil Adviser to 
the Colonial Ofifice was then going to be 
vacant ; but Sir Patrick Manson proved the 
successful candidate. 
There was a very remarkable demonstra- 
tion in his honour on his retirement, when 
the Department entertained him at a splendid 
luncheon in the Medical College premises, 
to which the principal Officials of the Colony 
from the Lieut.-Governor downwards, and 
many prominent Unofficials, were invited. 
There was much speech making and hilarity ; 
but specially notable were che tokens of 
good-will which the occasion called forth 
from the various nationalities of which the 
Department consists. Notwithstanding the 
immense addition to his duties which he 
had willingly undertaken. Dr. Kynsey 
never received an increase of salary, having 
never applied for any. He thought it in- 
consistent with the dignity of his office to 
be a suppliant for "more pay," and he 
expected the Government, which imposed 
additional work, to make the necessary 
provision. The U3,000 he received as per- 
sonal allowance was in lieu of the fees which 
the holder of the office had drawn in con- 
nection with Bills of Health to the 
shipping. In relinquishing these fees— now, 
1 believe, credited to revenue— he gave up 
much more than the lump sum allowed him ; 
and he took advice about an application 
for an enhanced pension on his account, 
as well as in consideration of ihe extra 
duties he had undertaken without remunera- 
tion. The annual pension of K7,500 which 
he was allowed was, I believe, in excess of 
that which his salary of R12,000 entitled 
him to, even with the personal allowance 
of R3,000 added. But he lived only six years to 
enjoy it, though on his retirement he had 
hopes of a longer life, with his vigorous 
constitution. " I think it a great mistal^e," 
he said, "for a man to stick on to his post 
until he feels he is breaking down. His 
pension is then scarcely a benefit to him." 
His idea of retirement was not a life of 
idleness. He showed himself a learner in 
bis profession to the end, and took a keen 
interest in the discussion of medical questions 
5n London, where he also proved a 
sympathetic friend to young Oeylonese 
needing counsel and guidance. As an 
Irishman he was rather Impulsive at times, 
bub he had a warm Irish heart, and always 
soiTght the welfare of his BUbordinates. The 
last time I met him, discussing his probable 
suocessor, I named a Military Doctor who 
Was said to be anxious to get the post. "He 
Would be a fool if he took it,'* he said 
bluntly, "as he would soon be better off, 
with his allowances. But he Is a good man, 
though too fond of talking, and rather 
hasty— just like an Irishman." And he 
joined heartily in the laugh which the last 
remark provoked. Much sympathy will 
be felt with the family in their sudden 
bereavement by a wide circle, to whom 
Lady Kynsey was known for her un- 
obtrusive benevolence. 
REV. JOHN IRELAND JONES. 
The Church of Ireland has just lost an old and 
universally respected representative in the Mission 
Field in the death of Kev ■)ohn Ireland Jones, M A, 
of the Ceylon Mission, Born in Dublin, the son of 
an honoured father, Milward Jones, Esq, of Kath- 
farnhani, a distinguished graduate of Dublin 
University, Mr Jones joined the CMS staff in 
Ceylon, so long ago as 1857. He was one of a 
band of able and devoted missionaries which our 
Alma Mater gave to the CMS about the middle 
of tUe Nineteeth Century, such as Bishop llussell, 
Bishop Stuart, Dr Robert Bruce and J Weliand. 
Mr. Jones was a powerful factor in the re-organisa- 
tion of the Church in Ceylon after its disestablish- 
ment, and also in guiding, and bringing to a 
peaceable conclusion, the difficult and delicate 
controversy between the Society and Bishop 
Copleston. For a period of thirty years Mr Jones 
was practically the head of the Ceylon Mission, 
It was he who founded at Kandy the school which 
has since become Trinity College, The accounts 
of his itinerating tours amongst the Sinhalese 
population were always full of interest. Some 
eighteen years ago he and his wife had a very 
narrow escape from poisoning, and it is probable 
that the effects of this illness considerably under- 
mined the constitution of both Mr and Mrs Jones, 
and led at length to their withdrawal from the 
Mission field, owing to ill-health in 1891. Keturn- 
ing to this country he took up work in the Church 
at home, for some time assisting his old friend, 
Rev John Lynch, at St Johu's, Monkstown, After 
Mrs Jones was called to her rest, Mr Jones, whose 
heartwas centred in the scene of his life's work, 
volunteered again (like Bishop Stuart) for the 
Mission Field, and returned to Ceylon in 1900, 
where the Master has used him for his own glory, 
for the past three years. Genial, loving, venerable, 
and eminently single-minded, our revered brother, 
after thirty-seven years of faithful service, has 
entered into the joy of his Lord. ' Well done, good 
and faithful seivant.' — Hibernian Church Mis- 
sionary Gleaner. F. W. M. 
. J, DUFF DAWSON, 
OiiD KANDY AND THE OLD O.'B' C. 
A correspondent writes :— " Another inter- 
esting link with the past has been severed 
by the death of J. Duff Dawson, of whom 
you rightly say in your pajier, tlmt he 
was a very popiilur resident uf Kandy in 
the Seventies. He was fur several years the- 
representative in the Central Capital of the 
Oriental Bank, which had been synonymous 
in the Island for several decades with 
stability and good management, and had 
contributed in no small degiee to the progress, 
and prosperity of the Island, while benefiting 
its shareholders by a large and judicious 
business. Kandy was then a far more im- 
portant place from a business point of view 
thau now, as it was the centre of the Coffee 
Enterprise, where great Agency Houses di4 
