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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25

QUEENSLAND.—MORETON BAY.—FLOATING BEACON DRIVEN
FROM HER MOORINGS.

NOTICE is hereby given that the floating beacon at the
entrance to the North or Howe Channel, Moreton Bay, has
been driven from her moorings during the recent heavy
weather. She will be replaced by a black-perch buoy as
soon as practicable.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 12th March, 1891

Despatch.—Regulations respecting Naval Cadets.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 8th April, 1891.

THE following regulations, received from the Admiralty,
under which naval cadetships in the British navy
may be obtained, are republished for general information.

J. BALANCE,
For the Minister of Defence.

REGULATIONS RESPECTING NAVAL CADETS.—FOR THE IN-
FORMATION OF CANDIDATES.

1. APPOINTMENTS to naval cadetships will be made by limited
   competition, with the under-mentioned exceptions:—
   Four cadetships given annually to sons of gentlemen in
   the colonies, on the recommendation of the Secretary
   of State for the Colonies.
   Service cadetships, the total number of which is not to
   exceed five in any one year. Service cadets will be
   selected by the Board of Admiralty from (a) sons of
   officers of the army, navy, or marines who have been
   killed in action, or who have been lost at sea on
   active service, or killed on duty, or who have died of
   wounds received in action or injuries received on duty
   within six months from the date of such action or
   injury; (b) sons of officers of the navy who have per-
   formed long or distinguished service, or who hold or
   have held rank or relative rank on the active list not
   lower than that of commander. Not more than two
   such latter service cadets will be nominated an-
   nually.
   Applications for service cadetships should be addressed
   to the Military Secretary, Horse Guards, if the can-
   didate is the son of an officer of the army; to the
   Secretary of the Admiralty, if the candidate is the
   son of an officer of the navy or marines; and to the
   Military Secretary, India Office, if the candidate is
   the son of an officer in the Indian army.
   Colonial and service cadets will be entered on passing the
   test examination as specified in paragraphs 9 and 10, and
   will in all other respects be subject to these regulations.
   The educational examination of all candidates will be
   conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners (address, Can-
   non Row, Westminster), who will deal with all questions
   connected with such examination, and will announce the
   results. A fee of 10s. will be required from each candidate.

2. Except in special circumstances, not more than one-
   third of the number of candidates actually presenting them-
   selves before the Civil Service Commissioners will be
   entered.

3. All nominations of candidates for naval cadetships are
   made by the First Lord, with the exception of a limited
   number which are at the disposal of individual members of
   the Board, and of the Secretaries to the Board of Admiralty.
   A flag officer or a commodore first class appointed to the
   chief command of a station, or to a separate command, and
   a captain, on first appointment of such to the command of
   a ship, will be allowed to nominate one candidate, provided
   the privilege is exercised within six months of appointment.
   No captain will be entitled to nominate more than one
   candidate during the time he holds the rank of captain, but
   a flag officer or a commodore first class may claim the privi-
   lege each time he is appointed to a command as above.
   In the event of a candidate’s nomination being cancelled
   before he has commenced the examination, the officer who
   nominated him will be allowed to select another candidate
   for the same or following examination.

4. The nominations will be made half-yearly, as soon as
   convenient after the report of the last examination has been
   received from the Civil Service Commissioners,

5. The examinations will be held in London and at Ports-
   month, and will commence on the second Tuesday in June
   and the last Tuesday in November in each year, and the
   appointments will date from the 15th July and 15th January
   following respectively.

6. No candidate will be eligible for the June examinations
   whose age will not be within the following limits on the 15th
   July following, viz., not less than thirteen nor more than
   fourteen and a half years of age; nor for the November ex-
   aminations whose age will not be within those limits on the
   15th January following.

7. Every candidate 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 consti-
   tutional or hereditary disease or weakness of any kind, and
   in all respects well developed and active in proportion to his
   age. Before being examined by the Civil Service Com-
   missioners he will be required to pass the medical exami-
   nation according to the prescribed regulations, and must
   have been found physically fit for the navy; rejection at
   such examination will finally exclude him from the navy.

8. The candidate will be required to produce (1) a Regis-
   trar’s certificate of the date of his birth, or a declaration
   thereof made before a Magistrate (a certificate of baptism
   will not be accepted); (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 tutor or the clergyman of the parish in
   which he resides; and (3) proofs of good health.

9. Candidates will be tested by examination in the follow-
   ing subjects:—

Marks.
i. Arithmetic: Including proportion, vulgar and
decimal fractions.. .. .. .. 250
ii. Algebra: Including fractions, simple equations
and problems, and quadratic equations of one
unknown quantity .. .. .. 200
iii. Geometry: Euclid, Book I., with exercises and
questions .. .. .. 200
iv. English: Handwriting, dictation, reading with
intelligence, and composition .. .. 150
v. French: Translating French into English, and
English into French; grammatical questions,
speaking, and dictation .. .. .. 250
(No dictionary will be allowed, but the equiva-
lents for the less usual words in either language
will be given.)
vi. Scripture .. .. .. .. 100
Candidates will be required to obtain half-marks in arith-
metic, and 40 per cent. in each of the other subjects.
Candidates will be further examined in—
vii. Mathematics: Harder questions in arithmetic,
algebra, and geometry, as above defined .. 300
viii. Latin: Translation, grammar, and prose com-
position .. .. .. .. 300
(No dictionary will be allowed, but the equiva-
lents for the less usual words will be given.)
ix. Geography: Including the subjects treated of
in Grove’s Primer, and an elementary know-
ledge of the principal places in the British
Isles and dependencies .. .. .. 150
x. English history;* a short selected period .. 150
xi. Drawing, freehand, and simple rectangular
model .. .. .. .. 100
The final order of merit will be determined by the sum of
the marks obtained in the test and in the further exami-
nation.
10. Colonial and service cadets will be appointed on passing
the test examination; they must, however, obtain 660 marks
in the aggregate, as well as the proportion of marks in
arithmetic and other subjects required from the candidates
who compete.
11. A candidate who passes the test examination, but does
not succeed in the competition, will be entitled to compete
at the next examination, provided he is within the limits of
age at that time. No candidate will be allowed to compete
more than twice. A candidate who fails to pass the test will
not be entitled to another trial, but he will be allowed to
compete at the next examination if he receives a fresh
nomination and is still within the limits of age.
12. A candidate who, owing to illness, fails to appear at
the examination for which he has obtained his nomination
may receive a second nomination, provided he is still within
the limits of age.
13. For all cadets entered under these regulations the
payment will be at the rate of £75 per annum for the period
in the “Britannia,” to be paid half-yearly in advance to the
Accountant-General of the Navy. But the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty reserve the power of selecting, from
among the cadets entered at each half-yearly examination,
a number, not to exceed eight, being sons of officers of the
navy, army, or marines, or of Civil officers under the Board
of Admiralty, with respect to whom the annual payment
will be £40 only. In this selection their Lordships will have
regard solely to the pecuniary circumstances of the cadet.
14. In addition to the annual payments mentioned in the
foregoing paragraph, the parent or guardian will be charged

*“Gardiner’s Outlines of English History” (Longmans) has been
selected as the present text-book for examination in English history.
The subject will be divided into periods, as follows: Examination
to be held in November, 1890, A.D. 1485-1688; examination to be held
in June, 1891, A.D. 1688-1820. After June, 1891, the subject will be
divided into two periods, namely: First period, from the earliest
times to A.D. 1603; second period, from A.D. 1603-1820. The first
period being set at the examination held in November, and the
second period at that held in June of each year.