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1024. THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH SEPTEMBER, 1887.
19. Within a month after the conclusion of an examination, the details concerning the subjects of the next ensuing examination will be published in the Government Gazette.
RESULT OF EXAMINATION.
20. Immediately after the receipt of the decision of the Examiners, the names of the first six Candidates will be published, in each case, in the Government Gazette in the order of merit, with the number of marks obtained and the names of the Schools where they were edneated.
CORRESPONDENCE.
21. All correspondence with the Government and with the Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, on subjects connected with the Government Scholarships, must be sent through, the Inspector of Schools for the time being.
22. Candidates who intend to compete at the next examination should file their applications at the Office of the Inspector of Schools, not later than 1st May next, by using the printed forms' approved, for the purpose, by the Governor. The complete list of Candidates, to be submitted for the approval of the Governor, will be open for the inspection of Headmasters during the first week in May.
Hongkong. 10th September, 1887.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 370.
With reference to the Amended Regulations for Government Scholarships for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, the following additional details have been approved by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-
1.-PUBLIC SCHOOLS RECOGNIZED BY THE GOVERNOR.
The following Public Schools are, until further notice, recognized by the Governor as qualified to present Candidates for competition for the above mentioned Government Scholarships, viz., the Government Central School, the Hongkong Public School. St. Joseph's College, the Diocesan (Home) and Orphanage) School, and the Victoria English School.
2.-DETAILS OF SUBJECTS.
The following additional details of subjects. selected by the Inspector of Schools, for the purpose of the next examination to be held in October, 1888, have been definitively approved :-
History. In addition to general questions regarding the outlines of English History, special questions will be set with reference to the period of the Plantagenets (from Henry II to Richard II).
English Literature.--The period from the Conquest to Chaucer's death, as treated in chapters III and IV 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.—Julius Cæsar (with simple questions on the history of the words and
the construction of sentences, and other questions arising out of the subject). Latin.-Caesar 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).
3.- FORMS OF APPLICATION.
For the purpose of filing the information required by Paragraphs 5 and 6 of the above Amended Regulations, the subjoined Forms of Application (A. to E.), copies of which can be obtained at the Office of the Inspector of Schools, are approved until further notice:--