Nov. 11.]
NIGHT TIDAL SIGNALS, ENDEAVOUR RIVER.
The following night tidal signals are now exhibited
from the Flagstaff on Grassy Hill:—

Ft. in.
10 0 ... White light.
10 6 ... Red light.
11 0 ... Green light.
11 6 ... Red light over white.
12 0 ... Red light under white.
12 6 ... Green light over white.
13 0 ... Green light under white.
13 6 ... Red light over green.
14 0 ... Red light under green.
14 6 ... Two red lights—vertical.
15 0 ... Two green lights—vertical.
15 6 ... Two red lights—horizontal.
16 0 ... Two green lights—horizontal.
16 6 ... White light, north; red, south.
17 0 ... Red light, north; white, south.
17 6 ... White light, north; green, south.
18 0 ... Green light, north; white, south.
18 6 ... Red light, north; green, south.
19 0 ... Green light, north; red, south.

During the flood-tide a red light will be shown to
the northward of the permanent white light.

H. W. WYBORN,
Acting-Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 27th September, 1880.

Despatch.—Cadetships at Royal Military College, and
Preliminary Examinations of Candidates for the
Army.

Education Department,
Wellington, 6th November, 1880.

THE following despatch and enclosures from Her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies are published for general information. The
previous despatch was published in the New Zealand
Gazette No. 43, 29th April, 1880.

THOMAS DICK,
(in absence of the Minister of Education.)

(New Zealand, No. 24.)
Downing Street, 24th August, 1880.

SIR,—With reference to my predecessor's despatch
No. 11, of the 25th February last, respecting the
allocation of one cadetship per annum at the Royal
Military College to students of each of the colonial
Universities to which a charter by letters patent has
been granted, I have the honor to transmit to you,
for the information of your Government, a copy of a
correspondence which has taken place between this
department and the War Office relative to these ap-
pointments, and to the further proposal that colonial
candidates for the army who are not members of any
University should be exempted from the preliminary
examination held in London by the Civil Service
Commissioners, on their producing a certificate show-
ing that they have passed an equivalent examination
in Australia.

You will observe that the Civil Service Commis-
sioners have intimated that they would be willing to
hold preliminary examinations (except as regards
geometrical drawing) in Australia, by means of papers
sent out from this country, so as to relieve colonial
candidates from the expense and inconvenience
entailed under the present arrangement. It would
be desirable to facilitate the task of the Commis-
sioners by selecting a common centre for the Austra-
lian colonies where such examinations might be held,
and I should be glad if you would invite your
Government to place themselves in communication

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with the Governments of the Australian Colonies with
the view of determining what place shall be selected
for this purpose should the colony under your
Government desire to participate in the concession
which has been proposed for the convenience of the
sons of colonists in Australasia.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering the
Government of New Zealand.

The Colonial Office to the War Office.
Downing Street, 29th October, 1879.

SIR,—I am directed by the Secretary of State for the
Colonies to transmit to you, for the consideration of
Secretary Colonel Stanley, the accompanying copy of
a despatch from the Governor of Victoria with its
enclosures, and also a copy of one from the Governor
of Tasmania, suggesting that additional facilities
should be conceded with the view of enabling the
sons of colonists in Australia to become candidates
for commissions in Her Majesty's service.

Sir Michael Hicks Beach would be glad if Colonel
Stanley would give the subject his favourable con-
sideration, and would cause him to be informed of
the answer which should be returned to the applica-
tion from Captain Payne forwarded in Lord Nor-
manby's despatch.

I am to add that the proposal contained in his
Lordship's despatch, that such privileges as may be
enjoyed by candidates for commissions who have
taken degrees at the Universities in England should
be extended to sons of colonists who have taken
similar degrees at the University in Victoria, does not
seem to Sir Michael Hicks Beach to be open to ob-
jection in the case of those few Universities in the
colonies, such as the University of Melbourne, to
which a charter by letters patent have been granted;
but he would not be prepared to recommend the
extension of such privileges to colonial Universities
not constituted by Royal charter.

I have, &c.,
J. BRAMSTON.

The Under-Secretary of State, War Office.

The Colonial Office to the War Office.
Downing Street, 19th March, 1880.

SIR,—I have laid before the Secretary of State for
the Colonies your letter of the 11th ultimo, in reply
to one from this department of the 29th October
last, enclosing copies of despatches from the Gover-
nors of Victoria and Tasmania, in which it was urged
that additional facilities should be conceded in order
to enable the sons of colonists in Australia to become
candidates for commissions in Her Majesty's service.

2. Sir Michael Hicks Beach desires me to request
   that you will convey to Secretary Colonel Stanley the
   expression of his thanks for the arrangement under
   which one cadetship will in future be annually allo-
   cated at the Royal Military College to students of
   colonial Universities to which a charter by letters
   patent has been granted, the nomination to be left to
   each University after the candidates shall have been
   tested in such a manner as may seem to be most
   satisfactory, and that you will inform him that the
   Universities to which this concession would seem parti-
   cularly to apply are Sydney University, Melbourne
   University, University of New Zealand, University
   of the Cape of Good Hope, and the University of
   Adelaide (to which latter letters patent are about
   to be issued).

3. Despatches have accordingly been addressed to
   the Governors of the colonies in which these Univer-
   sities are situated, informing them of the arrange-
   ment.