Government Resident and Police Magistrate, Thursday Island FROM APR 1885 TO 23 JUL 1904
Offered the post in April 1885. In July he visited most of the islands of Torres Strait in his charge and accompanied Captain Everill's expedition up the Fly River in New Guinea. After the New Guinea commission he returned to Thursday Island in 1888 and, apart from a visit to Britain in 1902, remained in charge until his death there on 23 July 1904. He published Past and Present of Thursday Island and Torres Straits (Brisbane, 1900), and a memorial chapel was built in the cathedral on Thursday Island.