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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH DECEMBER, 1882. 1021

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 509.

POST OFFICE.

A competitive examination for the post of Junior Sorter in the Post Office will be held at 2 P.M. on Tuesday, the 9th proximo, in the Council Chamber, Government Offices.

The salary of the Post is forty dollars a month. General hours of attendance five hours a day, with extra attendance whenever required by the Postmaster General.

Candidates should send in their names, with any certificates or testimonials they may possess, to this Office before Saturday the 6th proximo. Limits of age 16 to 30.

The following will be the subjects of examination.

(1.) Fair handwriting.

(2.) Correct copying of English.

Indispensable.

(3.) Hindustani, colloquial and written character.

(4.) Elementary Arithmetic.

(5.) Geography.

Desirable.

(6.) Chinese colloquial, and written character enough to read names of places. (7.) Any other language.

:

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th December, 1882.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 510.

INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE.

The following Regulations for an Examination for the Civil Service of India, which have been transmitted by Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, are Published for general information.

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th December, 1882.

EXAMINATIONS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

REGULATIONS FOR THE OPEN COMPETITION OF JUNE, 1883.

N.B.-The Regulations are liable to be altered in future years.

1. On the 1st June, 1883, and following days, an Examination open to all qualified persons, will be held in London (a). Not fewer than persons will be selected, if so many shall be found duly qualified; viz., for the Lower Provinces of Bengal (including Assam); for the Upper Provinces of Bengal (including the Punjab and Oudh); Bombay (b).

for Burma;

for Madras, and

for

2. No person will be deemed qualified who shall not satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners :-

(i.) That he is a natural-born subject of Her Majesty.

(ii.) That his

and under nineteen years on the 1st January, will be above seventeen years age 1883. [N.B.-In the case of Natives of India this must be certified by the Government of India, or of the Presidency or Province in which the Candidate may have resided.] (iii.) That he has no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily infirmity unfitting him, or

likely to unfit him, for the Civil Service of India.

(iv.) That he is of good moral character.

(v.) That he has paid the fee of £5, prescribed under the provisions of the Order in Council

of the 22nd March, 1879 (c).

(a) An order for admission to the Examination will be sent to each Candidate on the 18th of May.

(b) The numbers will be announced hereafter.

(c) The fee will be £5, payable by means of a special stamp according to instructions which will be communicated to Candidates.