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with the personal expenses incurred by the cadet for washing, repairing boots and clothes, hair-cutting, pocket-money, &c.
15. The period of training on board the "Britannia" will be four terms; there will be two terms in each year. The first term of each year will be from February to July, the second from September to December.
The vacations will be five weeks at Christmas, two weeks at Easter, and six weeks at Midsummer.
16. (a.) Examinations in seamanship and study will be at the end of each term.
(b.) Cadets who fail at the end of their second term to obtain 40 per cent. of marks in mathematical subjects will be ordered to be withdrawn.
(c.) Cadets who fail at the final examination to obtain 40 per cent. in the mathematical subjects, including the theory of navigation and nautical astronomy, and 40 per cent. in the technical subjects, combined with physics and French, will be ordered to be withdrawn.
(d.) Cadets reported to the Admiralty for unsatisfactory conduct, or who fail to obtain half-marks in seamanship, will be "warned," and should they be again reported, or again fail to pass in seamanship, they will be discharged. Any cadet, however, who is reported for unsatisfactory conduct during his final term will be discharged without being allowed to present himself at the examination for passing out of the "Britannia."
(e.) Any cadet who shall at any time appear to their Lordships to be unfit for the naval service, for any reason whatever, will be removed from the "Britannia," and it must be understood that this rule will apply to those who are considered unfit from insufficient physical development or weakness of constitution, although no actual organic disease may have been developed.
17. It is to be distinctly understood that the period of training on board the "Britannia" is a time of probation, and the parent or guardian of every cadet will be required to sign a declaration (on the admission of the cadet to the "Britannia") to the effect that he shall be immediately withdrawn on the receipt of an official intimation of his being considered unfit for the navy.
18. Cadets will, on passing out of the "Britannia," rank according to the amount of sea-time they obtain at their final examination, and those who obtain equal amounts of sea-time will rank in the order of merit in which they pass out of the "Britannia."
19. The parent or guardian of every cadet will be required to provide outfit under the regulations in force.
20. No pay will be allowed by Government to cadets in the "Britannia." The pocket-money allowed to cadets will be charged to the parents.
21. As only cadets who are able to swim are permitted to use the boats belonging to H.M.S. "Britannia," the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty desire to impress upon parents and guardians the importance of cadets being taught to swim before they join the training-ship, so as to enable them to obtain the full benefits of use of the boats.

By command of their Lordships.
EVAN MACGREGOR.
Admiralty, October, 1890.

FORM A.

(It is essential that this form should be filled in and returned, addressed to the Secretary, Admiralty, London, S.W., with as little delay as possible.)

I, the undersigned, being the parent [or guardian] of the candidate to whom the foregoing particulars refer, hereby undertake to pay the regulated contribution of £75 a year (besides expense of outfit and personal expenses for washing, mending clothes and boots, pocket-money, &c.) while my son [or ward] is in the training-ship; and I further undertake to make him a private allowance of £50 a year (besides expenses of outfit) until he passes for the rank of lieutenant.

(Date:)
(Signature of parent or guardian.)

Members of Ashburton and North Canterbury Charitable Aid Board elected.

Charitable Aid Department,
Wellington, 4th April, 1891.
THE following Schedule, showing the names of the Members elected to represent various local authorities on the Ashburton and North Canterbury Charitable Aid Board, is published for general information.
P. A. BUCKLEY.

SCHEDULE.

Member of the House of Representatives elected, Newton District.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 8th April, 1891.
THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 16th March, 1891, for the election of a Member to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Newton, and by the indorsement on such writ it appears that
Sir GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.,
has been duly elected to serve as a Member for the said district.
G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

Additional Land taken in Ashburton Survey District for Purposes of the Hurunui-Bluff Railway.

NOTIFICATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable, for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Hurunui-Bluff Railway, to take further land in the Ashburton Survey District, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:
Now, therefore, we, the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on us by "The Government Railways Act, 1887," and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling us in that behalf, do hereby notify and declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.
The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Canterbury; as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked 4962, deposited in the office of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, this first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.
JAMES MCKERROW.
J. P. MAXWELL.
W. M. HANNAY.