665692-1887-Naval-Cadets — Page 2

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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH NOVEMBER, 1887. 1241

In the event of a candidate's nomination being cancelled before he has commenced, the examination, the Officer who nominated him will be allowed to select another candidate for the same or following examination..

4. The nominations will be made half-yearly, as soon as convenient after the Report of the last examination has been received from the Civil Service Commissioners.

5. The examinations will be held in London and at Portsmouth, and will commence on the second Wednesday in June and the last Wednesday 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 examination whose age will not be within the following limits on the 15th January following the November examination, and on the 15th July following the June examination viz., for the examinations in November 1887 to June 1888, not less than 12 nor more than 14 years of age.

7. Every candidate must be in good health, and free from any phisical 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.

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8. The candidate will be required to produce (1) a certificate of the date of his birth, or a declaration thereof made before a magistrate; (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. The candidates will be tested by examination in the following subjects:---

(1.) Arithmetic: including proportion, vulgar and decimal fractions, (2.) Algebra: including fractions, and simple equations of one-

unknown quantity,

(3.) Geometry: definitions, postulates. axioms, and subjects, of the

first twenty-six propositions of Euclid's Elements

Marks.

250

175

175

(4.). English: writing from dictation

Sspelling 75...... } handwriting 25)

100

reading with intelligence, and parsing easy sentences.

100

200

(6.) Scripture history..........

(5.) French translating, by aid of a dictionary, French into English,

and English into French, reading, parsing, and speaking,

Candidates will be further examined in any two of the following subjects they may select:---

Elementary mathematics: miscellaneous questions in arithmetic, algebra, (including quadratic equations), and geometry to the end of the first book of Euclid's Elements,

200

100

300

Latin: reading, parsing, and translating, by aid of a dictionary, Latin

into English, and English into Latin,

300

Geography and English History,.

300

The final order of merit will be deterinined by the sum of the marks obtained in the test, as well as in the further examination.

In arithmetic the candidate will be required to obtain five-tenths, and in each of the other subjects of the test examination four-tenths of the marks allotted thereto. In English the candidate must obtain four-tenths of the marks allotted for each of the two sub-divisions of the subject.

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 second nomination, provided he is still within the limits of age.

* A Certificate of Baptism will not be accepted.