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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Mr. Briggs to the Under Secretary of State for the
Colonies.

Admiralty, September 25, 1869.

SIR,—I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty to transmit to you herewith, for
the information of the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, the enclosed New Regulations for the
entry and examination of Naval Cadets with reference
to the nominations for Colonial Cadetships, and to
call your attention more especially to the passages
marked, viz., paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 15, 16, 21, 26, 27,
and 32.

I am, &c.,
JOHN HENRY BRIGGS.

The Under Secretary of State
for the Colonies.

REGULATIONS RESPECTING NAVAL CADETS.
(FOR THE INFORMATION OF CANDIDATES.)

1. Two examinations for naval cadetships will be
   held annually under the direction of the Admiralty
   Director of Education, viz., on the third Wednesday
   in June, and on the last Wednesday in November,
   but the appointments, as cadets, of the successful
   candidates will date from the 15th July or the 15th
   January.
   The first examination under these regulations will
   take place in November, 1869.

2. No candidate will be eligible for examination
   in November whose age will not be within the pre-
   scribed limits on the 15th January following, or for
   examination in June whose age will not be within
   the prescribed limits on the 15th of July following.

3. The limits of age for examination in November,
   1869, will be not less than 12 nor more than 14
   years of age.
   For examination in June, 1870, not less than 12
   nor more than 13 years of age.
   After June, 1870, no candidate is to be examined
   who is under 12 or above 13 years of age.

4. The number of naval cadets to be entered at
   each examination will be determined by the Ad-
   miralty, and twice the number to be entered will be
   nominated to compete for cadetships.

5. Every candidate will be required to pass the
   medical examination according to the prescribed
   regulations, and must have been found physically fit
   for the Royal Navy.

He 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.

Any candidate rejected at the medical examination
will be finally excluded from the Royal Navy.

6. The candidate will be required to produce (1) a
   certificate of birth or declaration thereof made before
   a Magistrate; (2) a certificate of good conduct from
   the masters of any schools at which he may have
   been educated within the two previous years, or if
   educated at home from his tutors or the clergyman
   of the parish in which he resides; and (3) a certifi-
   cate of good health.

7. The candidates will be required :—
   Marks assigned.

(a) To read a passage from a modern
standard English author with in-
telligence ... 100

(b) To write English from dictation
correctly in a legible hand ... 100

(c) To read, translate, and parse a
passage from French ... 100
N.B.—The aid of a dictionary will be allowed
in this translation.

They will also be required to have a satis-
factory knowledge of—
(d) Arithmetic, as far as proportion
and vulgar and decimal fractions ... 150
(e) Scripture History ... 100
No candidate will be qualified to compete unless
he obtains at least four-tenths of the marks assigned
to each of these subjects, and 250 marks in the
aggregate.

8. Candidates so qualified will be further examined
   in such of the following subjects as they may select:
   Marks assigned.
   (f) Arithmetic. Miscellaneous ex-
   amples ... 100
   (g) Algebra. The first four rules and
   fractions. (Miscellaneous questions) 100
   (h) Euclid. Book I. to Prop. XXII. 100
   (i) French. Translation of English
   into French ... 100
   (k) Latin. To read, translate, and
   parse a passage from the first two
   books of Cæsar de Bello Gallico, or
   Virgil's Æneid, and to translate easy
   passages from English into Latin ... 100
   (l) English History. From the com-
   mencement of the reign of James I.
   to the present day ... 100
   (m) The outlines of modern geography 100
   (n) Any one living foreign language
   except French. To read, translate,
   and parse a passage, and to render
   an English passage into it ... 100
   (o) Elementary drawing ... 100
   No marks amounting to less than one-sixth in a
   voluntary subject will be counted towards the total.

9. A candidate who obtains the number of marks
   prescribed for passing, but who may not be successful
   in the competition, will be allowed to compete again
   at the next examination without a fresh nomination.
   No candidate will be allowed to compete more than
   twice.

10. Candidates rejected for the first time at the
    examination in August, 1869, are to be allowed a
    second trial in November without a fresh nomination;
    but they must then compete with other candidates,
    and should they not succeed in the competition they
    will not be allowed another trial.

11. Any candidate who fails to appear at the next
    examination after he has obtained a nomination will
    not be allowed to present himself without a fresh
    nomination, except in the case of illness certified by
    a physician or surgeon approved by their Lordships,
    in which case non-appearance will have the effect of
    unsuccessful competition, entitling the candidate to
    present himself at the following examination only.

12. For all cadets entered under these regulations
    after the examination in August, 1869, the annual
    rate of payment will be as at present during the
    year 1870, and afterwards at the rate of £70 per
    annum for the period in the "Britannia," and £50
    for the year in the sea-going training ship, to be
    paid half-yearly in advance to the Accountant-
    General of the Navy. But the Lords Commissioners
    of the Admiralty reserve the power of selecting,
    from among the candidates nominated at each half-
    yearly examination, a number, not to exceed twelve,
    being sons of Officers of the Royal Navy or Marines,
    or of Civil Officers under the Board of Admiralty,
    with respect to whom the annual payment for the
    two years in the "Britannia" will be £40 only. In
    selecting these their Lordships will have regard
    solely to the pecuniary circumstances of the parents
    or guardians of the cadets.

13. Candidates who succeed in the competition
    will be appointed to the "Britannia."