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Hong Kong Cadetstrips.
WITH a view to supply the Civil Service in Hong Kong, Cadetships have been established, the holders of which are required to devote themselves for a certain time after their arrival in the Colony to learning Chinese.
Ist. The Cadets are appointed after a competitive examination by the Civil Service Commissioners from amongst Candidates nominated for this purpose by the Secretary of State.
The Examinations for these Appointments are not held at fixed periods of time, but upon the occurrence of vacancies in the Civil Service of Hong Kong,
Applications for Nominations by the Secretary of State, proceeding from
persons of whom he has no direct knowledge, should be accompanied by recommendatio from persons known to him, or occupying positions of professinal or other distinction.
2nd. Each Candidate shale between the ages of 20 and 23.
3rd. The heads of examination are as follows
Ist. Exercises designed
A Obligatory.
*
te Handwriting and Orthography,
2nd. Aritlunetic, including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions.
3rd. Eatin, and one of the following languages :-Greek, French,
German, Italian.
4th. English Composition, including Précis Writing.
B. Optional.
5th. Pure and Mixed Mathematics.
6th. Ancient or Modern History, and Geography.
7th. The Elements of Constitutional and International Law, and
Political Economy.
8th. Geology, Civil Engineering, and Surveying.
Every Candidate must show a competent knowledge of the first four
Subjects, and may select an two of the Optional Subjects.
4th. Each Cadet will receive a salary of $960 (about £200) per ammum; half-salary to commence from the day of leaving England, and full salary from the date of his arrival in the Coony. The cost of his passage to the Colony will be paid, subject to the repayment hereafter mentioned (Secs, 8, 9),
(100 672-H & S 6599)
ECEIV
2 APR
1877
3. Kath Terrace, oxford,
Diet March, 1877.
The Right. Honorably, the dark of Carnarson, Stcretary of
State for the Colonies:
Call you
My Lord,
May I be allourde to your Lordship's attention to the fact that a chair of the Chinour Lan- Junge and Literature, with angores as "Propper, was constitutions here about
forward to
Inagurals hoelbe months ago, and to your Lordship
a copy of my
Licture, dativored in the the Boine the 27th of
last Oebben. Theatres ona
My special object ins now writing to your Lordship is to submit whether the Gaming aboor Chair may not by mach available
to our important pertiminary in the Chintal langung to young man sent out by the Colonial office to s as Interpretive in the Colony of Hong. Kong
the
and in the Straits Druttamento. I was resident as a Chintor and an souple in Hong
mifirmary to the English mimater of Kong for nearly thinky
pars. It was on my advice that sis Her "Cakes Robinson propond to the cotonal office the adoption of an plans for pruning a staff of qualified Interpreters for the
The Colony, Thr poorrnment Arone
who are appoints al to that Young
couple of Department are allourd a
after their arrivals for pretimimary study. If they were to spend that time in
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