Mar. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 825

Schedule.

The whole of the Spreydon Road District.

This by-law shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1905.

The seal of the Inhabitants of the Spreydon Road District was affixed to this special order this 20th day of March, 1905.

JOHN BROWN,
Chairman.

I hereby certify that a special order, of which the foregoing is a true copy, has been duly passed by the Spreydon Road Board in accordance with law.

WILLIAM HARTSHORN,
Clerk of the Spreydon Road Board.

Special Order made by the Council of the County of Pahiatua.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 27th March, 1905.

THE following special order, made by the Pahiatua County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Treasurer.

PAHIATUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order making Special Rate (Loan 70).

THAT, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” the Pahiatua County Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £110, authorised to be raised by the Pahiatua County Council under the above-mentioned Act to form and metal Bourke’s Road, the said Pahiatua County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 7/6d. in the pound upon the unimproved rateable valuation of all property in the Bourke’s Road Special-rating District—viz., part Section 30, Block XV., Mangahao (73 acres); Lots 16 to 20 of Sections 8 and 9, Block XIV., Mangahao; Section 1 of Block XIV. and Section 2 of Block XV., Mangahao; Section 1a of Block III., Mangaone; Lot 21 of Sections 8 and 9, Block XIV., Mangahao: and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable on the 1st day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, at 4 per cent. per annum, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made and passed at a special meeting of the Pahiatua County Council on the 4th day of February, 1905, and confirmed on the 4th day of March, 1905.

SAMUEL BOLTON,
County Chairman.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Pahiatua was hereto affixed in the presence of—

SAMUEL BOLTON,
County Chairman.

GEORGE MOORE,
County Clerk.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 28th March, 1905.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Eltham, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Treasurer.

ELTHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Result of Poll on Proposed Loan of £7,500.

NOTICE is hereby given that a poll of the ratepayers of the borough (including all persons entitled to vote on proposals to raise loans) was taken at the Borough Chambers, Bridge Street, Eltham, on Thursday, the 16th day of March, 1905, upon the following proposal: viz., To borrow, under Part I. of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and its amendments, the sum of £7,500 for the following purposes, viz.:

1. For general street-improvements within the borough .. .. .. .. £ 6,500
2. To purchase a site for, and erection of, fire-brigade station .. .. .. 460
3. To provide for payment of mortgage of Borough Chambers .. .. .. 230
4. To pay to Hawera County Council this Council’s half-share of cost (£400) of erection Waingongoro Bridge, on borough boundary .. .. .. .. 200
5. To purchase the Eltham Town Hall property 110

Total .. .. .. .. 7,500

And at such poll the number of votes recorded for and against the proposal was: For the proposal, 99; against the proposal, 18; informal, 1.

I therefore hereby declare the said proposal to be duly carried.

Dated this 17th day of March, 1905.

GEO. W. TAYLER,
Mayor, and Chairman of Statutory Meeting of Ratepayers.

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 21st March, 1905.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

WELLINGTON CUSTOMHOUSE.—FITTINGS, ETC., CONTRACT.

Accepted. £ s. d.
Bennett, W. H., Wellington .. .. 1,132 13 0

Declined.
Wakelin, R. A., Wellington .. .. 1,145 11 7
Brown and Johnston, Wellington .. .. 1,204 10 0
Sanders Bros., Wellington.. .. .. 1,215 16 0

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

Education Department,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1905.

THE following regulations received from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies 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.

The Secretary of State advises that the same subjects and scale of marks are now applicable also to the examination for clerkships (Class I.) in the Home Civil Service and to those for Eastern cadetships, and that after the year 1905 the limits of age for candidates will also be identical for all three services.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Education.

FOR EXAMINATIONS HELD IN 1905.—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, Langland, 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, Dryden, Swift, Defoe, Addison, Johnson, Burke, Scott, Macaulay (essays and biographies).

A minute knowledge of the works of these authors will not be looked for in this part of the examination, which will, however, test how far the candidates have studied the chief productions of the greatest English writers in themselves, and are acquainted with the leading characteristics of their thought and style, and of the place which each of them occupies in the history of English literature. Candidates will also be expected to show that they have studied in these authors the history of the English language in respect of its vocabulary, syntax, and prosody.

The other part of the examination will relate to the period named below:—

A.D. 1600 to A.D. 1700.
[Shakespeare to Dryden.]