WP Leary was appointed Resident Magistrate for the District of Umsikaba by Government Notice No 946 dated September 1894. The seat of the magistrate was presumably at Flagstaff, for, by Government Notice 995 dated October 1895 the seat of the Magistrate of Umsikaba was removed from Flagstaff to Lusikisiki. JAP Galdwin was appointed “Assistant Resident Magistrate for the District of Umsikaba to hold a court at Flagstaff in the said district,” by Government Notice 996 dated October 1895.

By Government Notice No 1865 of 26 October 1928, Government Gazette No 1734, the magistrate of Flagstaff, Mr FC Pinketon, was also appointed as Bantu Affairs Commissioner.