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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JANUARY, 1882.

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 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 Differen-

tial 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 6 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.

6. The selected Candidates will be expected to leave for the Colony during the month of October following the examination, unless it may be determined hereafter to retain them in this country for year in order to study the elements of Chinese, in which case they will receive an allowance at the rate of £100 per annum.

7. Each Cadet will receive a salary of $1,200 per annum, half-salary to commence from the day of leaving England, and full salary from the date of his arrival in the Settlements. The cost of his passage to the Colony will be paid, subject to the repayment hereafter mentioned (Secs. 11, 12).

8. On the arrival of the Cadet in the Straits Settlements he will apply himself specially to learning one or more of the native languages, as the Local Government may direct.

9. While thus studying he will be under the control and suprevision of the Governor of the Colony, who will frame regulations for his hours of study and general government. Quarters, books and teachers will be provided for him at the public expense, and he will be required to attend at the Public Offices a certain time each day as may be directed by the Governor, in order to give him an opportunity of learn- ing the details of public business, without interfering with his reading. He may also, if thought advisable, be sent for a certain time to China in order to acquire more intimate knowledge of the language.

10. As soon as he is declared by a Board of Examiners to have acquired a competent knowledge. of one or more of the languages, he will be temporarily employed in such of the Departments as may require his services, at an increased rate of salary, and will be considered eligible by the Secretary of State for appointment, as vacancies may occur, to offices in the Civil Service of the Straits Settlements.

11. The progress of the Cadet will be tested by half-yearly examinations, and he will be liable to be dismissed without further pay, if he does not pass a final examination in one or more of the lan- guages within such time as may be fixed, or if at any time his progress or conduct shall be considered by the Governor and Executive Council to be so unsatisfactory as to render such a course desirable. The Governor and Council will decide, having regard to the ground of dismissal, whether the Cadet shall be sent home at the public expense, or shall be left to find his own way home, or shall be in addition, called upon to repay the cost of his passage out.

12. A Bond must be entered into by the Cadet and two approved sureties with the Crown Agents for the Colonies to secure the repayment of the cost of the passage out in the event of his dismissal, and of its being decided by the Governor and Executive Council that such repayment shall be enforced-and also in the event of the Cadet within four years from the date of his arrival in the Straits Settlements either quitting the Colony without leave or relinquishing his appointment (except for ill health), together with a further sum of £50 for each year, to repay the Colony the cost of his teaching, up to his leaving.

13. In the case of all Cadets hereafter appointed to the Civil Service of the Straits Settlements the dollar will be reckoned at 4s. for the purpose of the payment in England of half-salary or pension.

COLONIAL OFFICE, December, 1881.

* 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.