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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, April 29th, 1857.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
THOMAS HENRY SMITH, Esq.,
to be Assistant Native Secretary at Auckland.
By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, April 29th, 1857.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
EDWARD CATCHPOOL
to be Registrar under the “Marriage Act, 1854,"
and Deputy-Registrar of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages under the Registration Ordinance,
Session 8, No. 9, for the District of Ahuriri.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, April 29th, 1857.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint the following gentle-
men to be Deputy-Registrars of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, under the Registration Ordi-
nance, Session 8, No. 9, for the Districts set
opposite their names.
WILLIAM B. WHITE, Mongonui.
The Rev. THOS. LANFEAR, Thames.
GEORGE M. MITFORD, Kawhia.
WALTER HARSANT, Rangiawhia.
HERBERT S. WARDELL, Turanga (Poverty
Bay).
A. W. SHAND, Chatham Islands.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, April 29th, 1857.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct that the following Des-
patch and its enclosure, respecting the exami-
nation of Candidates for employment in the
Civil Service of India, be published for
general information.
By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

[CIRCULAR.]
Downing-street,
9th December, 1856.

SIR,—
Referring to preceding Notices of the
periods which had been fixed for the examina-
tion of Candidates for the Civil Service of
India, I now transmit to you a notification, to
which you will give all due publicity, of a
similar examination which is to take place in
July, 1857.

I have, &c.,
H. LABOUCHERE.

Governor Gore Browne,
&c., &c.

CIVIL SERVICE OF THE EAST
INDIA COMPANY.

1. In July, 1857, an examination will take
   place of candidates for appointments to the
   Civil Service of the East India Company.
   Notice will be hereafter given of the days and
   place of examination.
2. Any natural-born subject of Her Majesty
   who shall be desirous of entering the Civil
   Service of the East India Company, will be
   entitled to be examined at such examination,
   provided he shall before the 1st of May, 1857,
   have transmitted to the India Board, Cannon
   Row, Westminster :—
   (a) A certificate of his birth, showing that
   his age, on the 1st of May, 1857, will
   be above eighteen years and under
   twenty-three years.
   (b) A certificate, signed by a physician
   surgeon, of his having no disease, con-
   stitutional affection, or bodily infirmity,
   unfitting him for the Civil Service of
   the East India Company.
   (c) A certificate of good moral character,
   signed by the head of the school or
   college at which he has last received his
   education; or, if he has not received
   education at any school or college since
   the year 1854, then such proof of good
   moral character as may be satisfactory
   to the Board of Commissioners for the
   affairs of India.
   (d) A statement of those of the branches
   of knowledge hereinafter enumerated in
   which he desires to be examined.
3. The examination will take place only in
   the following branches of knowledge :--
   English Language and Literature—
   Composition .... 500
   English Literature and His-
   tory, including that of the
   Laws and Constitution .... 1000
   1500
   Language, Literature, and His-
   tory of Greece .... 750
   Ditto ditto ditto Rome .... 750
   Ditto ditto ditto France .... 375
   Ditto ditto ditto Germany .... 375
   Ditto ditto ditto Italy .... 375
   Mathematics, pure and mixed .... 1000
   Natural Science, that is, Che-
   mistry, Electricity and Magnet-
   ism, Natural History, Geology,
   and Mineralogy .... 500
   Moral Sciences, that is, Logic,
   and Mental, Moral, and Politi-
   cal Philosophy .... 500
   Sanscrit Language and Litera-
   ture .... 375
   Arabic language and Litera-
   ture .... 375
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4. The merit of the persons examined wil