May 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 673

Witnesses residing beyond three miles from the town or city in which the Court is held will also be allowed their coach, railway, or steamboat fares. By railway or steamer, second-class fares will be allowed to mechanics, labourers, and persons of similar ranks, and first-class fares to others. For coach or steamer fares over 10s. receipts must be furnished.

When there is no public conveyance witnesses will be allowed a mileage rate of 9d. per mile, one way.

Interpreters.

To an interpreter, if engaged for any time not exceeding one hour
For every additional hour or fraction of an hour he may be actually employed beyond that time
But not exceeding per day
For models or plans when required, such sum as may be certified by the Registrar as fair and reasonable.

Interpreters will be paid one guinea a day, and their actual fares, when travelling to and from a Court to interpret.

Proceedings before Justices and Coroners.

3. Costs will be allowed to Crown Solicitors in conducting cases before Justices of the Peace, Coroners, or Wardens, under any Act, ordinance, regulation, by-law, or other authority, as follows:—

For each case, including drawing information or complaint, preparing case for hearing, conducting proceedings in Court, and drawing conviction or order (if so required)
Where proceedings extend beyond one day, then for each subsequent day, if the period occupied does not exceed one hour
If it exceeds one hour

When, for any reason, the case is not taken into Court, a fee not exceeding £2 2s. will be allowed for drawing information and preparing case for hearing.

The costs allowed shall cover all proceedings up to commitment for trial, if any, including a general supervision over all formal matters necessary to make the case complete.

4. In indictable cases in which the accused are summarily convicted under Part II., Title 4, of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882,” and amending Acts, necessary witnesses for the prosecution will be paid their expenses by the Department of Justice on the certificate of the Justices hearing the case.

Bankruptcy.

5. For investigating a case submitted to the Crown Solicitor or Crown Prosecutor, under section 143 of “The Bankruptcy Act, 1893,” and giving or refusing a certificate thereon, a fee of £1 1s. will be allowed; but where the nature of the case investigated and the time necessarily occupied appear to render it desirable that a larger fee should be allowed, the Department of Justice may allow such further fee as seems reasonable.

General.

6. In all cases in which a maximum fee is fixed by the regulations, it is to be understood that regard is to be had to the nature of the service actually rendered, and the fee to be allowed accordingly shall not necessarily be the maximum fee.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Approved in Council.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Civil Service of India.

Education Department,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1894.

THE following regulations, received from the Colonial Office, are published for general information.

A. J. CADMAN,
For the Minister of Education.

EXAMINATIONS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

Regulations for the Open Competition of August, 1894.

[N.B.—The regulations are liable to be altered in future years.]

1. On the 1st August, 1894, and following days, an examination, open to all qualified persons, will be held in London(a). Not fewer than 60 persons will be selected if so many shall be found duly qualified—viz., 14 for the Lower Provinces of Bengal (including Assam), 25 for the Upper Provinces of

Bengal (including the Punjab, Oudh, and the Central Provinces), 6 for Burma, 8 for Madras, and 7 for Bombay(b).

2. No person will be deemed qualified who shall not satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners—

(1.) That he is a natural-born subject of Her Majesty.
(2.) That his age will be above twenty-one years and under twenty-three years on the 1st April, 1894.

[N.B.—In the case of natives of India it will be necessary for a candidate to obtain a certificate of age and nationality, signed, should he be a resident in British India, by the Secretary to Government of the province, or the Commissioner of the division within which his family resides, or, should he reside in a native State, by the highest political officer accredited to the State in which his family resides.]

(3.) That he has no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily infirmity unfitting him, or likely to unfit him, for the Civil Service of India.
(4.) That he is of good moral character.

3. Should the evidence upon the above points be prima facie satisfactory to the Civil Service Commissioners, the candidate, on payment of the prescribed fee(c), will be admitted to the examination. The Commissioners may, however, in their discretion, at any time prior to the grant of the certificate of qualification hereinafter referred to, institute such further inquiries as they may deem necessary, and if the result of such inquiries, in the case of any candidate, should be unsatisfactory to them in any of the above respects, he will be ineligible for admission to the Civil Service of India, and, if already selected, he will be removed from the position of a probationer.

4. The open competitive examination will take place only in the following branches of knowledge:—

English composition
Sanskrit language and literature
Arabic language and literature
Greek language and literature
Latin language and literature
English language and literature (including special period named by the Commissioners)(d)
French language and literature
German language and literature
Mathematics (pure and applied)
Advanced mathematical subjects (pure and applied)
Natural science—i.e., any number not exceeding three of the following subjects:—

Elementary chemistry and elementary physics
(N.B.—This subject may not be taken up by those who offer either higher chemistry or higher physics.)
Higher chemistry
Higher physics
Geology
Botany
Zoology
Animal physiology
Greek history (ancient, including constitution)
Roman history (ancient, including constitution)
English history
General modern history (period to be selected by candidates from list in the syllabus issued by the Commissioners, one period at least to include Indian history)(e)
Logic and mental philosophy (ancient and modern)
Moral philosophy (ancient and modern)
Political economy and economic history
Political science (including analytical jurisprudence, the early history of institutions, and theory of legislation)
Roman law
English law—viz., law of contract, criminal law, law of evidence, and law of the Constitution

Candidates are at liberty to name any or all of these branches of knowledge(f). No subjects are obligatory.

(b) For the method of distribution see No.1 of the announcements following.
(c) The fee (£5) will be payable by means of a special stamp, according to instructions which will be communicated to candidates.
(d) In the syllabus referred to in note (f).
(e) See note (f).
(f) A syllabus, defining in general terms the character of the examination in the various subjects, may be obtained on application to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission.