Nov. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2197

from an iron tower, painted white and red, at the outer end of the Glenelg Jetty, will be discontinued on the 28th February, 1902, and, in lieu thereof, an ordinary white light, visible five miles, will be exhibited from a lamp-post at the extreme end of each jetty from the night of 1st March, 1902. This affects Admiralty Charts Nos. 2389a and 1750.

By direction.

JOHN DARBY,
Secretary, Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide,
12th October, 1901.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Raglan County.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th November, 1901.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Raglan County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

J. G. WARD.

RAGLAN COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

THE following is the result of a poll taken on Wednesday, the 30th October, 1901, on the proposal of the Raglan County Council to borrow the sum of £3,000 for the purpose of widening, forming, and metalling the Ngaruawahia-Waimai Road, and to levy a special rate of ½d. in the pound within the Special Rating-district of Waipa-Pepepe as security for the loan :—

Number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal, 72; against, nil.

The number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal being more than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded, I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

BASIL HEWETT,
Chairman, Raglan County Council.

Ngaruawahia, 31st October, 1901.

The Civil Service of India; Clerkships (Class I.) in the Home Civil Service; and Eastern Cadetships.

Education Department,
Wellington, 8th November, 1901.

THE following regulations respecting examinations for the Civil Service of India, for clerkships (Class I.) in the Home Civil Service, and for Eastern cadetships are published for general information.

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.

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, 1902.

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 1st July, 1902, 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, 1902, 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, 1901.

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 His 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 issued under Notification of the Government of India, No. 2252, dated 21st August, 1888, as amended by Notification No. 404, dated 19th May, 1898, and 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 :—

Chemistry .. .. .. 600
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 mentioned, a greater aggregate number of marks than any of the

(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.