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THE HONGKOng government GAZETTE, 16TH MAY, 1891.

7. The Subjects of examination for Class A will be: Handwriting, Orthography, Arithmetic, Copying Manuscript (to test accuracy), English Composition, Geography, Indexing or Docketing, Digesting Returns into Summaries, English History, Book-keeping.

For Class B the essentials of the examination will be the following English subjects, namely:-

(a.) Reading including print and manuscript,

(b.) Handwriting, including quality and rapidity,....

........200 marks.

......400

(c.) Writing from Dictation and copying from manuscript, (d.) Composition, the subject being chosen with a view to test also general intelligence; punctuation, grammar, orthography and idiom will be taken into account,

(e.) Arithmetic, including the simple and compound rules, proportion,

vulgar and decimal fractions,

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.400

;)

.400

..300

In addition to these subjects the Board when giving notice of the examination either in Class A or Class B will give a list of such additional subjects as may be considered necessary for the post to be filled.

Chinese (colloquial and written) will as a rule be one of these special subjects.

8. The Board of Examiners will decide the result of the examination by a uniform system of marks and will return the names of the candidates to the Colonial Secretary, in the order of merit, assigning to each candidate the number of marks he has gained in each subject.

9. No candidate will be eligible for employment unless he shall have gained at least one third of the total number of marks in each subject.

10. With the limitation of the foregoing paragraph the candidate who has gained the highest number of marks will receive the appointinent, subject to probation for a period of six months.

11. Probationers giving satisfaction will be further permanently employed as the Government may determine.

. 12. In case of misconduct or incapacity a probationer may at any time be dismissed from further employment by the Governor.

COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG.

A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 224.

The Officer Adininistering the Government is pleased to direct that the Anniversary of the Birthday of Her Gracious Majesty the QUEEN be celebrated in this Colony on Monday, the 25th of May; which day will, under the provisions of Ordinance No. 6 of 1875, be therefore a Public Holiday.

By Command,

W. M. DEANE,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th May, 1891.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 225.

It is hereby notified that Her Majesty has not been advised to exercise her power of disallowance with respect to the following Ordinances :-

Ordinance No. 1 of 1891.--An Ordinance for the Naturalization of Lai Sui Tong (*). Ordinance No. 2 of 1891.—An Ordinance for the Naturalization of Choi Wai (1) other-

wise Choi Tsun (*).

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th May, 1891.

W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary,