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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JANUARY, 1882.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 27.

The following Despatch is published for general information.

By His Excellency's Command,

M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th January, 1882.

DOWNING STREET,

HONGKONG.

No. 165.

6th December, 1881.

SIR,With reference to my despatch No. 97 of the 9th of August last, I have the honour to in- form you that it has been found necessary to make some further modifications in the regulations for Cadetships, mainly with regard to the details of the examination and at the instance of the Civil Ser- vice Commissioners.

2. Copies of the regulations as finally revised are now enclosed, and I request that they may be substituted for those which you have already received.

3. I enclose also copies of similar regulations for Cadetships in the Straits Settlements and Ceylon.

I have, &c.,

KIMBERLEY.

Governor

SIR J. POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.,

&e.,

&c.,

&c.

HONGKONG CADETSHIPS.

With a view to supply the Civil Service in Hongkong, Cadetships have been established, the holders of which are required to devote themselves for a certain time to learning the Chinese Language.

1. The Cadets are selected by open competitive examination held by the Civil Service Commissioners. 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 Service of Hongkong, and will. take place at the same time as those for Cadetships in 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.

3. No Candidate will be admitted to the competition who has not previously passed to the satisfaction 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:---

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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 translation 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 Differential Calculus.

e. Modern Geography and Ancient or Modern History.

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

select any two of the Optional Subjects.

may

* Candidates who take up History will be invited to name the periods which they have studied and in which they wish to be examined. In awarding marks, regard will be had to the extent and importance of the period chosen and to the thoroughness with which it has been studied.