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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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"Final Examination," at which it will be decided
whether a selected candidate is qualified for the Civil
Service of India. At this examination candidates
will be permitted to take up any one of the following
branches of natural science, viz., botany, geology, or
zoology, for which 350 marks will be allowed.

10. Any candidate who, at any of the periodical
    examinations, shall appear to have wilfully neglected
    his studies, or to be physically incapacitated for pur-
    suing the prescribed course of training, will be
    liable to have his name removed from the list of
    selected candidates.

11. The selected candidates who, at the final exam-
    ination, shall be found to have a competent knowledge
    of the subjects specified in Regulation 9, and who shall
    have satisfied the Civil Service Commissioners of
    their eligibility in respect of nationality, age, health,
    and character, shall be certified by the said Commis-
    sioners to be entitled to be appointed to the Civil
    Service of India, provided they shall comply with the
    regulations in force at the time for that service.

12. Persons desirous to be admitted as candidates
    must apply on forms, which may be obtained from
    "The Secretary, Civil Service Commission, London,
    S.W.," at any time after the 1st December, 1880.
    The forms must be returned so as to be received at
    the office of the Civil Service Commissioners on or
    before the 1st April, 1881. They should be accom-
    panied by evidence on the first four of the points
    mentioned in Regulation 2, and by a list of the sub-
    jects in which the candidate desires to be examined.(9)

The Civil Service Commissioners are authorized by
the Secretary of State for India in Council to make
the following announcements:-

(1.) Selected candidates will be permitted to choose, accord-
ing to the order in which they stand in the list resulting from
the open competition, as long as a choice remains, the presidency
(and in Bengal the division of the presidency) to which they
shall be appointed; but this choice will be subject to a different
arrangement, should the Secretary of State, or the Government
of India, deem it necessary. (10)

(2.) The Probationers, having passed the necessary examina-
tions, will be required to report their arrival in India within
such period after the grant of their certificate of qualification
as the Secretary of State may in each case direct.

(3.) The seniority in the Civil Service of India of the
selected candidates shall be determined according to the order
in which they stand on the list resulting from the final
examination.

(4.) An allowance amounting to £300 will be given to all
candidates who pass their probation at one of the Universities
or Colleges which have been approved by the Secretary of State,
viz., the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Edin-
burgh, St. Andrew's, and Aberdeen; Trinity College, Dublin;
University College, London; and King's College, London;
provided such candidates shall have passed the required ex-
aminations to the satisfaction of the Civil Service Commis-
sioners, and shall have complied with such rules as may be laid
down for the guidance of selected candidates.

(5.) All selected candidates will be required, after having
passed the first periodical examination, and before receiving the
first instalment of their allowance, to attend at the India Office
for the purpose of entering into an agreement binding them-
selves, amongst other things, to refund in certain cases the
amount of their allowance in the event of their failing to pro-
ceed to India. A surety will be required.

(6.) After passing the final examination, each candidate will
be required to attend again at the India Office, with the view of
entering into covenants. The stamps payable on these docu-
ments amount to £1.

(7.) Candidates rejected at the final examination of 1883
will in no case be allowed to present themselves for re-
examination.

(9) Evidence of health and character must bear date not
earlier than the 1st March, 1881. Applications for leave to
alter or add to the list of subjects named will not be enter-
tained unless received on or before the 5th May.

(10) This choice must be exercised immediately after the
result of the open competition is announced, on such day as
may be fixed by the Civil Service Commissioners.

EXAMINATIONS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE OF
INDIA.

OPEN COMPETITION OF 1881.

For the guidance of candidates who may have a
difficulty in making their selections for special study
under the heads of English history and literature, the
following lists are given as indicating the character
and amount of reading that would be regarded as
satisfactory.

History of England.

Any one of the following periods, to be studied generally in
Bright's History, and specially in portions, selected by the
candidate, of the text-books named:-

1. Henry II. to Edward III., A.D. 1154-1377.-
   Stubbs' Select Charters; Stubbs' Constitutional
   History of England.

2. The Tudors, A.D. 1485-1603.-Hallam's Con-
   stitutional History of England; Froude's History
   of England.

3. The Stuarts, A.D. 1603-1714.-Hallam's Con-
   stitutional History of England; Macaulay's History
   of England.

4. A.D. 1714-1805.-Lord Stanhope's History;
   Sir T. E. May's Constitutional History; either
   Massey's Reign of George III. or Lord Stanhope's
   Life of Pitt.

English Literature.

Poetry.

Shakespeare.-Three plays, one from each of the
following groups:-
(a.) Macbeth, Othello, Lear, Hamlet.
(b.) Coriolanus, Julius Cæsar, King John, Henry V.
(c.) Tempest, Merchant of Venice, Romeo and
Juliet, As You Like It.

And any two of the following:-

1. Chaucer.-Prologue to the Canterbury Tales,
   with the Prioress's Tale, and the Clerk's Tale. Or
   Spenser.-Faerie Queene, Books 1 and 2.

2. Milton.-First four books of Paradise Lost, or
   Paradise Regained, or Comus and Samson Agonistes.

3. Dryden.-Absalom and Achitophel, and The
   Hind and Panther.

4. Pope.-Essay on Criticism; with either imita-
   tions of Satires and Epistles of Horace, or Essay on
   Man.

5. Gray.-Poems.

Prose.

Bacon.-Essays, or Advancement of Learning.
And any two of the following:-

1. Milton.-Areopagitica. And Locke.-On the
   Conduct of the Understanding.

2. Clarendon.-History of the Rebellion, from the
   Treaty between the King and the Parliament, at the
   end of Book VI., to the Death and Character of
   Falkland in Book VII. And De Foe.-Memoirs of a
   Cavalier (ch. viii. to the end).

3. Addison.-Selections (Clarendon Press Series),
   Parts 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7.

4. Johnson.- "Six Chief Lives of the Poets,"
   viz., of Milton, Dryden, Swift, Addison, Pope, and
   Gray; with Macaulay's Biography of Johnson.

5. Burke.-Reflexions on the French Revolution;
   or Appeal from New to Old Whigs, with Speech on
   American Taxation.

6. Macaulay.-Essays on Addison, Byron, Wal-
   pole, Mackintosh, Temple, and Madame D'Arblay.