Oct. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1591

tioned, a greater aggregate number of marks than any of the
remaining candidates, will be set forth in order of merit, and
such candidates shall be deemed to be selected candidates
for the Civil Service of India, provided they appear to be in
other respects duly qualified. Should any of the selected
candidates become disqualified, the Secretary of State for
India will determine whether the vacancy thus created shall
be filled up or not. In the former case, the candidate next
in order of merit, and in other respects duly qualified, shall
be deemed to be a selected candidate. A candidate entitled
to be deemed a selected candidate, but declining to accept
the nomination as such which may be offered to him, will
be disqualified for any subsequent competition.

9. Selected candidates, before proceeding to India, will be
   on probation for one year, at the end of which time they will
   be examined with the view of testing their progress in the
   following subjects(a) :—
   Compulsory—
   Marks.
   (1.) Indian Penal Code and Criminal Procedure
   Code .. .. .. .. 500
   (2.) The principal vernacular language of the
   province to which the candidate is as-
   signed .. .. .. .. 400
   (3.) The Indian Evidence Act and the Indian
   Contract Act .. .. .. 500
   Optional [not more than two of the following
   subjects, of which one must be either
   the Code of Civil Procedure or Hindu
   and Muhammadan law: candidates offer-
   ing one subject only are restricted to a
   choice between the two law subjects
   specified]—
   (1.) The Code of Civil Procedure .. .. 400
   (2.) Hindu and Muhammadan law .. .. 450
   (3.) Sanskrit .. .. .. .. 400
   (4.) Arabic .. .. .. .. 400
   (5.) Persian .. .. .. .. 400
   (6.) History of British India .. .. 350
   (7.) Chinese (for candidates assigned to the
   Province of Burma only) .. .. 400

• These subjects may not be offered by any candidate who has
  offered them at the open competition.

In this examination, as in the open competition, the merit
of the candidates examined will be estimated by marks
(which will be subject to deductions in the same way as the
marks assigned at the open competition), and the number
set opposite to each subject denotes the greatest number of
marks that can be obtained in respect of it. The examina-
tion will be conducted on paper and vivâ voce, as may be
deemed necessary. This examination will be held at the
close of the year of probation, and will be called the “final
examination.”

10. The selected candidates will also be tested during
    their probation as to their proficiency in riding. The exami-
    nations in riding will be held as follows :—
    (1.) Shortly after the result of the open competitive
    examination has been declared, or at such time
    or times as the Commissioners may appoint
    during the course of the probationary year.
    (2.) Again, at the time of the final examination, candi-
    dates who may fully satisfy the Commissioners of
    their ability to ride well and to perform journeys
    on horseback shall receive a certificate which
    shall entitle them to be credited with 200 or 100
    marks, according to the degree of proficiency
    displayed, to be added to their marks in the final
    examination.
    (3.) Candidates who fail to obtain this certificate, but
    who gain a certificate of minimum proficiency in
    riding, will be allowed to proceed to India, but
    will be subjected on their arrival to such further
    tests in riding as may be prescribed by their
    Government, and shall receive no increase to their
    initial salary until they have passed such tests to
    the satisfaction of that Government. A candi-
    date who fails at the end of the year of probation
    to gain at least the certificate of minimum pro-
    ficiency in riding will be liable to have his name
    removed from the list of selected candidates.

11. The selected candidates who, at the final examination,
    shall be found to have a competent knowledge of the sub-
    jects specified in Regulation 9, and who shall have satisfied
    the Civil Service Commissioners of their eligibility in respect
    of nationality, age, health, character, and ability to ride,
    shall be certified by the said Commissioners to be entitled to
    be appointed to the Civil Service of India, provided they
    shall comply with the regulations in force at the time for
    that service.

(a) Instructions, showing the extent of the examination, will be
issued to the successful candidates as soon as possible after the
result of the open competition is declared.

B

12. Persons desirous to be admitted as candidates must
    apply on forms, which may be obtained from “The Secre-
    tary, Civil Service Commission, London, S.W.,” at any time
    after the 1st December in the year previous to that in which
    the examination is to be held. The forms must be returned
    so as to be received at the office of the Civil Service Commis-
    sioners on or before the 31st May (or, if that date should fall
    upon a Sunday or public holiday, then on or before the first
    day thereafter on which their office is open) in the year in
    which the examination is to be held.

The Civil Service Commissioners are authorised by the
Secretary of State for India in Council to make the follow-
ing announcements :—
(1.) Selected candidates will be allotted to the various pro-
vinces upon a consideration of all the circumstances, in-
cluding their own wishes; but the requirements of the public
service will rank before every other consideration.
(2.) An allowance amounting to £100 will be given to all
candidates who pass their probation at one of the univer-
sities or colleges which have been approved by the Secre-
tary of State—viz., the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge,
Dublin, Glasgow, Edinburgh, St. Andrew’s, and Aberdeen;
Victoria University, Manchester; University College, Lon-
don; and King’s College, London: provided such candidates
shall have passed the final examination to the satisfaction
of the Civil Service Commissioners, and shall have conducted
themselves well, and complied with such rules as may be
laid down for the guidance of selected candidates. The
whole probation must ordinarily be passed at the same
institution. Migration will not be permitted except for
special reasons approved by the Secretary of State.
(3.) The allowance of £100 will not be paid to any selected
candidate until he has been certified by the Civil Service
Commissioners to be entitled to be appointed to the Civil
Service of India; and every certified candidate must,
before receiving his allowance, give a written undertaking to
refund the amount in the event of his failing to proceed to
India.
(4.) All candidates obtaining certificates will be also re-
quired to enter into covenants by which, amongst other
things, they will bind themselves to make such payments
as under the rules and regulations for the time being in force
they may be required to make towards their own pensions or
for the pensions of their families. The stamps payable on
these covenants amount to £1.
(5.) The seniority in the Civil Service of India of the
selected candidates will be determined according to the
order in which they stand on the list resulting from the
combined marks of the open competitive and final examina-
tions.
(6.) Selected candidates will be required to report their
arrival in India within such period after the grant of their
certificate of qualification as the Secretary of State may in
each case direct.
(7.) Candidates rejected at the final examination held in
any year will in no case be allowed to present themselves
for re-examination.

N.B.—A manual of rules and regulations applicable to
members of the covenanted Civil Service of India has been
compiled by permission of the Government of India, and
may now be procured either from Messrs. A. Constable and
Co., 2, Whitehall Gardens, S.W., or from Mr. E. A. Arnold,
37, Bedford Street, Covent Garden. Price, 2s. 6d.

The Commissioners have been requested by the Secretary
of State for India to draw the attention of selected candidates
to the prefatory note attached to this manual, as it is con-
sidered important that it should be clearly understood that
this compilation is not to be regarded in any other light
than that of a collection, made for facility of reference, of
certain information and rules, that it is by no means ex-
haustive, and that it is liable to such modifications as may
from time to time be sanctioned by competent authority.

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CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.
CLERKSHIPS (CLASS I.) IN THE HOME CIVIL SERVICE; AND
EASTERN CADETSHIPS.

Syllabus showing the Extent of the Examination in certain
Subjects.

English Composition.—An essay to be written on one of
several subjects specified by the Civil Service Commissioners
on their examination-paper.

English Language and Literature.—The examination will
be in two parts. In the one the candidates will be expected
to show a general acquaintance with the course of English
literature as represented (mainly) by the following writers
in verse and prose between the reign of Edward III. and
the accession of Queen Victoria :— Verse : Chaucer, Lang-
land, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Gray,
Collins, Johnson, Goldsmith, Crabbe, Cowper, Campbell,
Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats. Prose :
Bacon, Sir Thomas Browne, Milton, Cowley, Bunyan, Dry-