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Notice to Mariners, No. 38 of 1896.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 31st December, 1896.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Presidency Port Officer, Madras, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

EXHIBITION OF A NEW LIGHT, PORT OF HANGARKOTTA, SOUTH CANARA DISTRICT, MADRAS PRESIDENCY, INDIA — WEST COAST.

A 6th order red dioptric port light was exhibited at this port on the 9th November, 1896, and is visible seaward, about eight miles on a clear night from north through east to south, except where obscured by trees between south and S. 9° E., and by St. Mary's Isles between north and N. 5° E., and between N. 9° E. and N. 15° E. All bearings magnetic.

2. The apparatus, which is 12ft. above high-water, is placed on the top of the small masonry column, on the beach, marking the northern limit of the port, and not on the southern pillar, as stated in the preliminary notice issued on the 27th October last.

3. As this light is only intended for the use of coasting vessels during the fair-weather season, it will be extinguished yearly between the 1st June and the 14th September, both days inclusive.

H. A. STREET,
Commander, R.I.M.,
Presidency Port Officer.

Presidency Port Office,
Madras, 17th November, 1896.

List of Courses to be held at the Royal Artillery College, Woolwich, during 1897.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 4th January, 1897.

THE under-mentioned table of courses of instruction, to be held at the Royal Artillery College, Woolwich, during the year 1897, is republished for general information.

T. THOMPSON.

Nature of Course.

Long course ..

Firemasters ..

Position-finding ..

Special class in steam, hydraulics, electricity, &c.

Short course, field-artillery details

[Defence, 96/2197.
War Office, Pall Mall, S.W., October, 1896.

Regulations for the Forest Service Branch of the Royal Indian Engineering College.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 4th January, 1897.

THE under-mentioned regulations for the Forest Service Branch of the Royal Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, for 1897, are republished for general information.

T. THOMPSON.

REGULATIONS FOR THE FOREST SERVICE BRANCH OF THE ROYAL INDIAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE, COOPER'S HILL, FOR 1897.

[Post Town, Staines. Railway-station, Egham. Telegraph-station, Englefield Green.]

STAFF OF THE COLLEGE.

President—Colonel John Pennyquick, R.E., C.S.I.; Secretary—Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. Boyes; Bursar—J. P. Pasco, Esq., R.N., Retired; Chaplain—Rev. C. Croslegh, D.D.

Engineering Branch.—Assistant Professor of Engineering—A. H. Heath, Esq., Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E.; Professor of Surveying—Major-General E. H. Courtney, R.E.; Instructor in Geometrical Drawing—Arthur Hicks, Esq.; Lecturer in Accounts—J. C. Hurst, Esq.; Instructor in Free-hand Drawing—Russell Dowson, Esq.

Mathematical Branch.—Professor of Applied Mathematics—G. M. Minchin, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.; Professor of Pure Mathematics—A. Lodge, Esq., M.A., Fereday Fellow of St. John's College, Oxon.

Natural Science Branch.—Professor of Chemistry—Herbert McLeod, Esq., F.R.S.; Professor of Physics—W. N. Stocker, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxon.; Lecturer in Geology and Mineralogy—Professor H. G. Seeley, F.R.S.

Forestry Branch.—Principal Professor of Forestry—W. Schlich, C.I.E., Ph.D., late Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India; Assistant Professor of Forestry—W. R. Fisher, Esq., B.A., late Conservator of Forests, Northern India; Lecturer on Botany—C. A. Barber, Esq., M.A.; Lecturer on Entomology—W. F. H. Blandford, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; Lecturer on Chemistry of Soils and Vegetation—A. H. Church, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.; Instructor in German—T. H. Dittel, Esq.

[The arrangements hereinafter described are subject to revision under the orders of the Secretary of State for India.]

1. The Royal Indian Engineering College is primarily maintained, under the orders of the Secretary of State for India in Council, for the education of candidates for the service of Government in the India Public Works, Telegraph, and Forest Departments; but it is open, to the extent of the accommodation available, to all persons desirous of following the course of study pursued in it.

INDIA FOREST DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENTS.

2. The examination, which is conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners, usually takes place towards the end of June; and candidates may undergo the written part of their examination in London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, or at any of the provincial centres at which the simultaneous examination of candidates for admission to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, is to be held. A list of the probable centres may be obtained from the Civil Service Commissioners at any time after March, 1897. The oral and practical parts of the examination will be held in London only.

A fee of £2 is required from candidates examined in London, but when the written examination is conducted elsewhere than in London the fee is £3. Candidates examined at a college or school will probably be required to pay a local fee in addition to the fee of £3 (in order to defray the expenses of superintendence), as to which they should obtain early information from the college or school authorities. The fee payable to the Civil Service Commissioners must be paid by means of stamps of the specified amount. Instructions on this point will be issued to candidates about ten days before the examination.

3. The number of candidates to be selected annually varies according to the requirements of the Forest Service in India; the figures as regards each particular year will be advertised from time to time. In 1897 there will be six appointments offered for competition.

4. Candidates for the Indian Forest Department are selected under the following arrangements:—

(a.) An applicant must be a natural-born British subject, and must be above seventeen and under twenty years of age on the 1st of June of the year in which he competes for an appointment. He must be unmarried, and if he marries before reaching India he will forfeit his appointment.

The staff of the College is only given in so far as it concerns the Forest Branch.