The following forces are represented by the above group: Borneo Dyak Police, Sierra Leone Force, Victoria Mounted Rifles, Hausas (Sergeant of).] [Illustration: _From a Photograph_} {_by Lafayette._ THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN FORREST, PREMIER OF WEST AUSTRALIA. Born near Bunbury, W.A., 1847, educated at Perth, entered Survey Department 1865, and has commanded several expeditions into the interior besides surveying much of the Colony. Commissioner of Crown Lands, Surveyor-General and Member of Executive and Legislative Councils 1883-1890, Premier and Treasurer of the first Ministry under responsible government 1890.] [Illustration: _From a Photograph_} {_by Elliott & Fry._ THE RIGHT HON. SIR EDWARD BRADDON, PREMIER OF TASMANIA, Is a Cornishman. Born in 1829, and educated at University College. In his eighteenth year he went to Calcutta and made himself famous as a tiger-hunter. In the Mutiny he served with a regiment he had himself raised, and was mentioned in despatches. He held many offices in India, and in 1878 retired on a pension and went to Tasmania, where, twelve months later, he entered the Colonial House of Assembly. He was Leader of the Opposition in 1886-87, and Minister of Lands, Works, and Education, 1887-88. He was for six years Agent-General for Tasmania, and in 1894 became Premier of that Colony. Miss M. E. Braddon, the novelist, is his sister.] [Sidenote: The Jubilee Medals.] The commemoration medals struck to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee were eagerly bought up by all classes of Her Majesty's subjects. They were, perhaps, the most artistic things ever issued from the Royal Mint, though the small size of some of them interfered sadly with the effect of the design. The prices were as follows:--Large gold, £13; small gold, £2; large silver, 10_s._; small silver, 1_s._; and large bronze, 4_s._ It was a happy idea to give on the reverse of the medals the Queen's head, by W. Wyon, as it appeared on the coinage for 1837 to 1887. The choice of the motto--"Longitudo dierum in dextera ejus et in sinistra gloria"--could not have been bettered if the whole of literature had been searched through. The head, by Brock, on the obverse, first used in 1892, is undoubtedly the most satisfactory likeness of the Queen that has appeared on the coinage. In the gold medals the metal was unpolished, and the large silver ones were covered with a thin coating of platinum, the burnished appearance of newly-stamped coinage being thus avoided, much to the advantage of the design. In both cases the metal was of the purest quality, and it is interesting to note that there was actually £12 15_s._ worth of gold in the £13 medal. Innumerable publications relating to the Jubilee were issued from the Press. The _Illustrated London News_' special number was a triumph of colour-printing; the "Golden Number" of the London _Daily Mail_ was, as its name indicates, printed entirely in gold, and found a ready sale at 6_d._ a copy.