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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH OCTOBER, 1889.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION-No. 415.

The following is published for general information.

By Command,

F. H. MAY,

Acting Assistant Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th October, 1889.

Examinations for Eastern Cadetships, viz.,-for Cadetships in the Civil Service of Hong Kong, Ceylon, and the Straits Settlements.

[The next examination for Eastern Cadetships will be held under these Regulations. Alterations may be made for any subsequent examination.]

1. The Cadets, who must be natural-born British subjects, are selected by open competitive exa- mination held by the Civil Service Commissioners, to whom all inquiries on the subject should be addressed.

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 Services of Hongkong, Ceylon, and the Straits Settlements; and the successful Candidates will be allowed, in their order, to choose amongst the vacancies in the three Colonies.

2. Candidates must be between the ages of 21 and 24 on the first day of August in the year in which the Examination is held, and must satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners that they are duly qualified in respect of health and character. They must be of sound constitution, possessed of good sight, and physically qualified for service in tropical climates, and they will be called upon to undergo a medical examination to test these points.

3. No Candidate will be admitted to the competition who has not previously passed, to the satis- faction of the Civil Service Commissioners, a Preliminary Examination in Handwriting, Orthography, and Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions).

4. The fees required from Candidates are 1. for the preliminary and 5. for the competitive

examination.

5. The heads of the competitive examination are as follows:-

a. Latin.

A. Obligatory.

b. One of the following languages-Greek, French, German, Italian. The qualifying test for a and b 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.

c. English Composition, including Précis Writing.

B. Optional.

d. 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 Differ- ential Calculus.

e. (1) Modern Geography and (2) Ancient and Modern History. The Examination in

History will be confined to certain periods, to be prescribed for each examination.* f. The Elements of Constitutional and International Law, and Political Economy.

g. Geology, Civil Engineering, and Surveying.

h. Any two languages included under head b which have not been taken up as obligatory.

Every Candidate must show a competent knowledge of the obligatory subjects, and may

select any two of the optional subjects.

** Papers issued by the Colonial Office, which contain certain additional information, are herewith

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enclosed.

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

Cannon Row, S.W.,

24 August 1889.

* For the next Examination the periods will be:-

Ancient History.

(a.) Greek History from the battle of Salamis in B.C. 480 to the battle of Charonea in B.C. 338.

(b.) Roman History from the capture of Rome by the Gauls in B.C. 390 to the death of Domitian in A.D. 96. Modern History from A.D. 1693 to A.D. 1760.