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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST OCTOBER, 1881.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 344.
The following Revised Regulations for Hongkong Cadetships are published for general informa- tion.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th September, 1881.
W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
HONGKONG CADETSHIPS.
With a view to supply the Civil Service in Hongkong, Cadetships have been established, the holders of which are required to devote themselves for a certain time to learning the Chinese Language. The Cadets are selected by open competitive examination held by the Civil Service Commissioners. The examinations for these appointments will, as a rule, be held in the month of August in those years in which vacancies have occurred in the Civil Service of Hongkong.
2nd. Candidates must be between the ages of 21 and 24 on the first day of the Examination, and must satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners that they are duly qualified in respect of health and character. The Medical Examination does not ordinarily take place until the result of the competition is known, but Candidates may, by application to the Civil Service Commissioners, obtain permission to undergo it earlier.
3rd. The fees required from candidates are £1 for the preliminary and £5 for the competitive examination.
4th. The heads of examination are as follows:-
A. Obligatory.
1st. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography.
2nd. Arithmetic, including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions.
The
3rd. Latin, and one of the following languages: Greek, French, German, Italian.
qualifying test will be translation from the language, but marks will be given for trans- lation into it, and in the case of the Modern languages for colloquial proficiency.
4th. English Composition, including Precis Writing.
B. Optional.
5th. Pure Mathematics, viz. Euclid I.-IV., and VI.; Algebra, including the Binomial theorem; Trigonometry, including the solution of Triangles; Analytical Geometry (elementary); and mixed Mathematics, including Statics and Dynamics treated without the Differential Calculus.
* 6th. Modern Geography and Ancient or Modern history.
7th. The Elements of Constitutional and International Law, and Political Economy. 8th. Geology, Civil Engineering, and Surveying.
9th. Any two languages included under the third head which have not been taken up as
obligatory.
Every Candidate must show a competent knowledge of the first four Subjects, and may select
any two of the Optional Subjects.
As at present arranged, a Cadet after his appointment will remain for one year in this country, and will be required to begin learning, Chinese and to attend a class for students of Chinese at King's College or at University College; he will also be employed during some hours daily at the Colonial Office in the work of the Department. At the end of his year's study in this country the Cadet will be examined in Chinese, and the confirmation of his appointment will depend upon his passing a satisfactory examination, and on his performance of his duties in the Office.
5th. Each Cadet gill receive salary at the rate of £100 a year while studying in this country and a salary of $1,200 a year from the date of his arrival in the Colony. The cost of his passage to the Colony will be paid, subject to the liability of repayment hereafter mentioned (Secs. 9, 10). And half-salary will be allowed from the date of embarkation.
6th. After arrival in Hongkong he will be required to continue his study of the language. 7th. While thus studying, he will be under the control and supervision of the Governor of the Colony, who will frame regulations for his hours of study and general duties. Quarters, books, and teachers will be provided for him at the public expense, and he will be required to attend at the Public Offices for a certain time each day as may be directed by the Governor in order to give him an oppor- tunity of learning the details of public business without interfering with his reading. He may also, if thought advisable, be sent for a certain time to China in order to acquire more intimate knowledge of the language.
* Candidates who take up history will be invited to name the periods which they have studied, and in which they wish to be examined. In awarding marks, regard will be had to the extent and importance of the period chosen and to the thoroughness with which it has been studied.