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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
copy of a letter from the Admiralty, enclosing revised
regulations respecting naval cadets.

LAND-TAX DISTRICT OF CANTERBURY—continued.
Name of Assessment Court. Name of County. Name of Borough,
&c.
Borough Council Chambers, Geraldine ... Timaru.
Borough Council Chambers,
Timaru
Level's Road
District.
Road Board Office, Burke's ... Mount Cook
Pass Road District.
Resident Magistrate's Court, Geraldine ... Mount Peel,
Geraldine,and
Temuka Road
Districts.
County Council Chambers, Waimate. Waimate

LAND-TAX DISTRICT OF OTAGO.
Courthouse, Oamaru Waitaki Oamaru.
Courthouses, Hawkesbury Waikouaiti. Palmerston.
and Palmerston
Courthouse, Palmerston ... Port Chalmers.
Courthouse, Port Chalmers ... West Hawkes-
bury.
Courthouse, West Hawkes-
bury.
Courthouse, Naseby Maniototo Naseby.
Courthouse, Clyde Vincent. Cromwell.
Courthouse, Cromwell ... Alexandra.
Courthouse, Alexandra ... Queenstown.
Courthouse, Queenstown... Arrowtown.
Courthouse, Arrowtown ... Taieri.
Courthouse, Outram
Waste Lands Board Office,
Dunedin
The Hospital, Frankton ... Lake. South Dunedin,
St. Kilda,
Green Island,
Maori Hill,
North-east
Valley, Ros-
lyn, West
Harbour.
Dunedin City.
Resident Magistrate's
Court, Dunedin ... Caversham.
Town Hall, Caversham ... Mornington.
Town Hall, Mornington ... Dunedin
Waste Land's Board Office, Peninsula.
Dunedin
Courthouse, Tokomairiro... Bruce Milton.
Courthouse, Roxburgh Tuapeka Roxburgh.
Courthouse, Lawrence Lawrence.
Courthouse, Tapanui Tapanui.
Courthouse, Balclutha Clutha Balclutha.
Courthouse, Invercargill... Southland Invercargill,
North Inver-
cargill, South
Invercargill,
Avenal, Glad-
stone.
Police Station, Winton ... Winton.
Courthouse, Campbelltown ... Campbelltown.
Resident Magistrate's Wallace Riverton.
Courthouse, Riverton

Despatch. - Revised Regulations respecting Naval
Cadets.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th June, 1879.

THE following despatch received from Her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies is published for general information.

G. S. WHITMORE.

I have, &c.,
M. E. HICKS BEACH.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

The Admiralty to the Colonial Office.
Admiralty, 31st March, 1879.
SIR, - With reference to your letter of the 21st
instant, I am commanded by my Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the
information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies,
that, in view of the standard of qualification for the
entry of naval and colonial cadets having been raised,
they consider that the revised regulations should be
issued to the Governors of Colonies, and I am to
forward herewith 250 copies for transmission ac-
cordingly.

I have, &c.,
ROBERT HALL.

The Under Secretary of State
for the Colonies.

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

1. Nominations for naval cadetships will take place
   half-yearly, immediately after the report of the last
   examination has been received.

2. An examination of the young gentlemen who
   have obtained nominations will be held in the Royal
   Naval College, Greenwich, under the direction of the
   Admiralty Examiners, on the third Wednesday in
   June and the last Wednesday in November in each
   year, but the appointments will date from the 15th
   July and January following respectively.

3. 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.

4. 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 phy-
sical 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, subject to the approval of the Board, be finally
excluded from the Royal Navy.

5. 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 the school or schools at which he
   may have been educated during 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 certificate of good health.

6. The candidates will be required :- Marks
   (a) To write English correctly from dicta- assigned.
   tion in a legible hand... 100

(b.) To read from a modern English author
with intelligence, and to parse easy
sentences 100

• A certificate of baptism will not be accepted.

Downing Street, 5th April, 1879.

SIR, - I have the honor to transmit to you, for
information in the colony under your Government, a