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examination
misior appointments
for min
in the Civil Service.
2.
The principal exemination
was
described in the enclosed papers for a chinese clerkship at a salary
of £200 a year in the Magistrates
Office.
There
were
eleven candidates,
all of whom had the advantage of being trained under a most zealous teacher Mr. Stewart the headmaster
of the Government Central School. Of
these one is at this moment Assistant teacher in the Central School and two others had acted as Assistant teachers. One had been the master and teacher of English of the Government School at Aberdeen. Of
the remainder, one had been educated at the school of the Roman Catholic
Missionaries here. Not one
of the
Candidates however was able to
pass
The Board of Examiners
the examination.
3.
consisted of Bishop Burdon, who is
well known as a Chinese Scholar, Mr.
Ng achoy, a Chinese gentleman who
was
called to the bar at
lately Lincoln's Inn,
and M. Alabaster, the
head of the Department in which the vacant clerkship, the subject of
the Examination, existed.
4.
The answers of the
various candidates, to the simple examination papers put before them