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No. 49.
VOL. XXXIV.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 3RD NOVEMBER, 1888.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 480.
With reference to the Amended Regulations for Government Scholarships for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, published in the Government Gazette of 10th September, 1887 (Notification, No. 369), the following additional details of subjects, selected by the Inspector of Schools, for the purpose of the next examination to be held in October, 1890, have been approved :-
History. In addition to general questions on the outlines of English History, special questions
will be set with reference to the period of Modern England, from 1742 to 1815. English Literature. The period from Anne to Victoria, as treated in Chapter XII of Morley's First Sketch of English Literature. General questions will also be set with reference to the History of English Literature (Stopford Brooke's English Literature Primer). Play of Shakespeare.--Macbeth (with simple questions on the sources of the Macbeth myth. on the geography and history of Scotland of the eleventh century, on the dramatis personae, and on the history of the words and the construction of sentences). Latin.--Cæsar de bello Gallico, Liber I. Grammatical and other questions will be set on the language and subject matter of the book. One or more easy passages, not contained in the book, will be set for translation into Latin, a vocabulary of the less familiar words being given.
Chemistry. The non-metallic elements, with special reference to Oxygen. Hydrogen, Nitrogen,
Carbon and their compounds (Roscoe's Lessons on Elementary Chemistry).
This examination will be open to Candidates, to be approved by the Governor, from one or other of the following Public Schools recognized by the Government (under Notification, No. 370, Sub-section 1, of 10th September, 1887), viz.: the Government Central School, the Hongkong Public School, St. Joseph's College, the Diocesan (Home and Orphanage) School, and the Victoria English School.
The List of Entries will be closed on 1st May, 1890.
Forms of application, for the purpose of filing the information required by Paragraphs 5 and 6 of the above-mentioned Amended Regulations, may be obtained at the Office of the Inspector of Schools. By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th October, 1888.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 481.
The Governor has been pleased to appoint Captain FREDERICK HENRY ARTHUR DES VOUX, 6th Dragoon Guards (The Carabineers), to be His Excellency's Aide-de-Camp.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 31st October, 1888.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
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