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·THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH MARCH, 1889.

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5. The examinations will be held in London and at Portsmouth, and will commençe on the second Tuesday in June and the last Tuesday in November in each year, and the appointments will date from the 15th July and 15th January following respectively.

6. No candidate will be eligible for the June examinations whose age will not be within the following limits on the 15th July following, viz., not less than 13 nor more than 14 years of age: nor for the November examinations, whose age will not be within those limits on the 15th January following.

7. Every candidate must be in good health, and free from any physical defect of body, impediment of speech, defect of sight or hearing, and also from any predisposition to constitutional or hereditary disease or weakness of any kind, and in all respects well developed and active in proportion to his age. Before being examined by the Civil Service Commissioners he will be required to pass the medical examination according to the prescribed regulations, and must have been found physically fit for the Navy; rejection at such examination will finally exclude him from the Navy.

8. The candidate will be required to produce (1) a Registrar's certificate of the date of his birth; or a declaration thereof made before a magistrate (a certificate of Baptism will not be accepted); (2) a certificate of good conduct from the masters of the school or schools at which he may have been educated during the two previous years, or, if educated at home, from his tutor or the clergyman of the parish in which he resides; and (3) proofs of good health.

9. Candidates will be tested by examination in the following subjects:-

i. Arithmetic including proportion, vulgar and decimal fractions

ii. Algebra: including fractions, simple equations and problems, and quadratic equa-

tions of one unknown quantity...

iii. Geometry: Euclid, Book I., with exercises and questions..

iv. English: handwriting, dictation, reading with intelligence, and composition.

Marks.

250

200

200

150

250

(No dictionary will be allowed, but the equivalents of the less usual words in either language will be given.)

vi. Scripture

100

v. French translating French. into English, and English into French grammatical

questions, speaking, and dictation

Candidates will be required to obtain half marks in arithmetic, and 40 per cent. in each of the other subjects.

Candidates will be further examined in--

:

vii. Mathematics: harder questions in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry, as above defined viii. Latin translation, grammar, and prose composition

300

(No dictionary will be allowed, but the equivalents for the less usual words will be given.)

300

ix. Geography: including the subjects treated of in Grove's Primer, and an elementary

knowledge of the principal places in the British Isles and dependencies.

x. *English history: a short selected period....

xi. Drawing, freehand and simple rectangular model.

150 150

100

The final order of merit will be determined by the sum of the marks obtained in the test and in the further examination.

10. Colonial and Service Cadets will be appointed on passing the test examination; they must, however; obtain 660 marks in the aggregate, as well as the proportion of marks in arithmetic and other subjects required from the candidates who compete.

11. A candidate who passes the test examination, but does not succeed in the competition, will be entitled to compete at the next examination, provided he is within the limits of age at that time. No candidate will be allowed to compete more than twice. A candidate who fails to pass the test will not be entitled to another trial, but he will be allowed to compete at the next examination if he receives a fresh nomination and is still within the limits of age.

12. A candidate who, owing to illness, fails to appear at the examination for which he has obtained his nomination may receive a second nomination, provided he is still within the limits of age. 13. For all Cadets entered under these regulations, the payment will be at the rate of £75 per annum for the period in the Britannia, to be paid half-yearly in advance to the Accountant-General of the Navy. But the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve the power of selecting, from among the Cadets entered at each half-yearly examination, a number, not to exceed eight, being sons of officers of the Navy, Army, or Marines, or of Civil Officers under the Board of Admiralty, with respect to whom the annual payment will be £40 only. In this selection their Lordships will have regard solely to the pecuniary circumstances of the Cadet.

* Gardiner's Outlines of English History" (Longmans) has been selected as the present text book for Examination in English History. The subject will be divided into three periods, as follows:-

Examination to be held in November 1888, A.D. 1066-1485.

June 1889, A.D. 1483-1688. November 1889, A.D. 1688-1820...