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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH JUNE, 1882.
Service Cadetships, the total number of which is not to exceed five in any one year.
Service
Cadets will be selected by the Board of Admiralty from (a) sons of officers of the Army, Navy, or Marines who have been killed in action, or who have been lost at sea on active service, or killed on duty, or who have died of wounds received in action or injuries received on duty within six months from the date of such action or injury, (b) sons of officers of the Navy who have performed long or distinguished service, and who hold or have held rank or relative rank on the Active List not lower than that of Commander; not more than two such Service Cadets to be nominated annually.
Applications for Service Cadetships should be addressed to the Military Secretary, Horse Guards, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Army; to the Secretary of the Admiralty, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Navy or Marines, and to the Military Secretary, India Office, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Indian Army.
Colonial and Service Cadets will be entered on passing the test examination specified in paragraph 8, and will in all other respects be subject to these Regulations.
The examination of candidates nominated to compete, and also of Service Cadets, will be conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners. A fee of ten shillings will be required from each candidate.
2. Except in special circumstances not more than one third of the number of candidates actually presenting themselves before the Civil Service Commissioners will be entered.
3. Nominations for Naval Cadetships will take place half-yearly as soon as convenient after the report of the last examination has been received.
4. Examinations of the young gentlemen who have obtained nominations will be held in London, 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.
5. No candidate will be eligible for examination in June whose age will not be within the following limits on the 15th July following, viz., not less than twelve nor more than thirteen and a half years of age, nor in November whose age will not be within those limits on the 15th January following.
6. 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 require to the
pass 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.
7. The candidate will be required to produce (1) a certificate of the date of his birth,* or a dec. - ration 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) a certificate of good health.
8. The candidates will be tested by examination in the following subjects:-
Marks. ..250
(1.) Arithmetic: including proportion, vulgar and decimal fractions (2.) Algebra: including fractions and simple equations of one unknown quantity .......175 (3.) Geometry: definitions, postulates, axioms, and subjects of the first twenty-
six propositions of Euclid's Elements
..175
(4.) English: writing from dictation
spelling.. handwriting 25f
.75
100
reading with intelligence, and parsing easy sentences..........
100
200
(5.) French: translating, by aid of a dictionary, French into English,
English into French; reading, parsing, and speaking
and
(6.) Scripture history....
...200
...100
Candidates will be further examined in any two of the following subjects they may select:- Elementary mathematics: miscellaneous questions in arithmetic, algebra, (in- cluding quadratic equations), and geometry to the end of the first book of Euclid's Elements
.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 determined 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.
* A Certificate of Baptism will not be accepted.
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