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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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for twenty-six years, and shall be payable in two half-yearly instalments on the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July in each year.”

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

T. T. YOULE,
Clerk.

HENRY VILE, Mover.
S. BRIDGE, Seconder.

Eketahuna Road Board,
Eketahuna, 6th August, 1898.

Notice to Mariners, No. 32 of 1898.

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.—LIGHT ON EAST CAPE ISLAND, NEAR EAST CAPE, NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 30th September, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that about the month of August, 1899, a light will be exhibited from a lighthouse now being erected on East Cape Island, near East Cape, in latitude 37° 40′ S., and longitude 178° 36′ E., as measured from the Admiralty chart. The light will be 362 ft. above the level of the sea at high water, and will be a second-order dioptric light, revolving to show a white flash at intervals of every ten seconds.

The light will be seen seaward over an arc of 280 degrees of the horizon (or as far round as the land will allow), and in ordinary clear weather it will be visible twenty-two nautical miles from the deck of a vessel 15 ft. above sea-level.

Further particulars, together with the date of lighting, will be given in a future notice.

Chart, &c., affected: No. 2527, Sheet III., N.Z.; “New Zealand Pilot,” Chapter iii., pages 147 and 148.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Examinations for the Indian Civil Service.

Education Department,
Wellington, 30th September, 1898.

THE following regulations, respecting examinations for the Civil Service of India, are published for general information.

W. C. WALKER.

EXAMINATIONS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

An open competitive examination for admission to the Civil Service of India will be held in London, under the subjoined regulations, commencing on the 1st August, 1899.

The number of persons to be selected at this examination will be announced hereafter.

No person will be admitted to compete from whom the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, has not received, on or before the 31st May, 1899, an application on the prescribed form, accompanied by a list of the subjects in which the candidate desires to be examined.

The order for admission to the examination will be posted on the 18th July, 1899, to the address given on the form of application. It will contain instructions as to the time and place at which candidates will be required to attend, and as to the manner in which the fee (£6) is to be paid.

Civil Service Commission, July, 1898.

Regulations.

. The following regulations, made by the Secretary of State for India in Council, are liable to alteration from year to year.

1. An examination for admission to the Civil Service of India, open to all qualified persons, will be held in London in August of each year. The date of the examination and the number of appointments to be made for each province will be announced beforehand by the Civil Service Commissioners.

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 he had attained the age of twenty-one, and had not attained the age of twenty-three, on the first day of the year in which the examination is held.

[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, 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, will be removed from the position of a probationer.

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

Marks.

English composition .. .. .. 500
Sanskrit language and literature .. .. 500
Arabic language and literature .. .. 500
Greek language and literature .. .. 750
Latin language and literature .. .. 750
English language and literature (including special period named by the Commissioners)(a) .. .. .. 500
French language and literature .. .. 500
German language and literature .. .. 500
Mathematics (pure and applied) .. .. 900
Advanced mathematical subjects (pure and applied) .. .. .. 900
Natural science—i.e., any number not exceeding three of the following subjects:—
Elementary chemistry and elementary physics .. .. 600
(N.B.—This subject may not be taken up by those who offer either higher chemistry or higher physics.)
Higher chemistry .. .. 600
Higher physics .. .. 600
Geology .. .. 600
Botany .. .. 600
Zoology .. .. 600
Animal physiology .. .. 600
} 1,800
Greek history (ancient, including constitution) 400
Roman history (ancient, including constitution) .. .. .. 400
English history .. .. .. 500
General modern history (one of the periods specified in the syllabus issued by the Commissioners) (a) .. .. .. 500
Logic and mental philosophy (ancient and modern) .. .. .. 400
Moral philosophy (ancient and modern) .. 400
Political economy and economic history .. 500
Political science (including analytical jurisprudence, the early history of institutions, and theory of legislation) .. .. 500
Roman law .. .. .. 500
English law. Under the head of “English law” shall be included the following subjects—viz., (1) law of contract, (2) law of evidence, (3) law of the Constitution, (4) criminal law, (5) law of real property; and of these five subjects candidates shall be at liberty to offer any four, but not more than four .. .. .. 500

Candidates are at liberty to name any or all of these branches of knowledge(a). None is obligatory.

5. The merit of the persons examined will be estimated by marks; and the number set opposite to each branch in the preceding regulation denotes the greatest number of marks that can be obtained in respect of it.

6. The marks assigned to candidates in each branch will be subject to such deduction as the Civil Service Commissioners may deem necessary(b) in order to secure that no credit be allowed for merely superficial knowledge.

7. The examination will be conducted on paper and viva voce, as may be deemed necessary.

8. The marks obtained by each candidate in respect of each of the branches in which he shall have been examined will be added up, and the names of the several candidates who shall have obtained, after the deduction above men-

(a) A syllabus, defining the character of the examination in the various subjects, may be obtained on application to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission.

(b) No deduction will be made from the marks assigned to candidates in mathematics or English composition.