Oct. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3045

Examination for Mine-managers' and Battery Superintendents' Certificates.

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Mines Department,
Wellington, 27th September, 1907.

WRITTEN and oral examinations of candidates for certificates as First- and Second-class Mine-managers and Battery Superintendents under “The Mining Act, 1905,” and First- and Second-class Mine-managers under “The Coal-mines Act, 1905,” will be held on Tuesday, the 21st January, 1908, and following days, at the Thames, Waihi, Reefton, and Dunedin. All applications, with necessary certificates, and fee of £1 by post-office order, should be addressed to “The Secretary, Board of Examiners under the Mining Act [or Coal-mines Act], Wellington,” and must be received on or before the 21st December, 1907. Forms of application may be obtained at any School of Mines, and from Inspectors of Mines.

H. E. RADCLIFFE,
Secretary to the Board of Examiners.

[NOTE.—No candidate will be permitted to present himself for examination unless he holds an authority from the Secretary stating that his certificates of service have been accepted by the Board.]

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Examination for Dredgemasters' Certificates.

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Mines Department,
Wellington, 27th September, 1907.

AN examination of candidates for certificates as dredgemasters, under “The Mining Act, 1905,” will be held on Tuesday, the 28th January, 1908, at Greymouth and Dunedin. All applications, with necessary certificates, and fee of £1 by post-office order, should be addressed to “The Secretary, Board of Examiners under the Mining Act, Wellington,” and must be received on or before the 3rd January, 1908. Forms of application may be obtained from Inspectors of Mines, Westport and Dunedin.

H. E. RADCLIFFE,
Secretary to the Board of Examiners.

[NOTE.—No candidate will be permitted to present himself for examination unless he holds an authority from the Secretary stating that his certificates of service have been accepted by the Board.]

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Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke's Bay.

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THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys under sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination: the other two scholarships are junior scholarships, one of which is open to all Maori boys under fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have attended a Native school or schools other than Te Aute or St. Stephen’s, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory; the other is open to Maori boys whose attendance at any school other than Te Aute and St. Stephen’s during the previous year has been similarly satisfactory. The senior scholarship is open to Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1897. Candidates for the junior scholarships will be examined in the subjects specified for Standard IV in the Native Schools Code, 1897. The questions will, however, be somewhat more difficult than those set for the standard examinations. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 9th and 10th of December, 1907.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted so as to reach the Department not later than the 4th of November, 1907.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education, Wellington.

W. W. BIRD,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Education Department,
Wellington, 28th September, 1907.

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

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Education Department,
Wellington, 8th October 1907.

THE following regulations received from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies respecting examinations for the Civil Service, for clerkships (Class I) in the Home Civil Service, and for Eastern cadetships, are published for general information.

E. O. GIBBES,
Secretary for Education.

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SYLLABUS SHOWING THE EXTENT OF THE EXAMINATION IN CERTAIN SUBJECTS FOR 1908.

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 with 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 one of the periods named below, which will follow each other year by year in the order indicated:—

1. (1908.) A.D. 1360 to A.D. 1600 (Chaucer to Spenser).
2. (1909.) A.D. 1600 to A.D. 1700 (Shakespeare to Dryden).
3. (1910.) A.D. 1700 to A.D. 1800 (Pope to Cowper).
4. (1911.) A.D. 1800 to A.D. 1832 (nineteenth-century writers to the death of Scott).

The examination in this part will require from candidates a more minute acquaintance with the history of the English language and literature, as illustrated in the chief works produced in each period, and will be based to a considerable extent, but by no means exclusively, on certain books specified each year by the Commissioners.* The names placed under the dates are intended to suggest the general character of the literary development of the period, and, consequently, the natural limits of the examination. All the works of Shakespeare, for example, will be regarded as falling within the period 1600 to 1700; all the works of Swift within the period 1700 to 1900; all the works of Scott and Wordsworth, and all the works of Macaulay, within the period 1800 to 1832.

Italian Language and Literature.—Translation and composition. Critical questions on the Italian language and literature. Conversation.

French Language and Literature.—Translation and composition. Critical questions on the French language and literature. Conversation.

German Language and Literature.—Translation and composition. Critical questions on the German language and literature. Conversation.

Latin Language and Literature.—Translation from Latin into English, composition in prose and verse, or (as an alternative for verse-composition) an original prose composition in Latin. Critical questions on the Latin language (including questions on philology) and literature.

Greek Language and Literature.—Translation from Greek into English, composition in prose and verse, or (as an alternative for verse-composition) an original prose composition in Greek. Critical questions on the Greek language (including questions on philology) and literature.

Sanskrit Language and Literature.—Translation from Sanskrit into English, and from English into Sanskrit. History of Sanskrit literature (including knowledge of such Indian history as bears upon the subject); Sanskrit grammar; Vedic philology.

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*The books for 1908 are:—Chaucer: “Assembly of Foules,” “Flower and Leaf.” James I of Scotland: “King’s Quhair.” Spenser: “Faery Queen,” V, VI, VII. Marlowe: “Edward II.” Mandeville: “Travels.” Sidney: “Apologie for Poetrie.” Spenser: “View of the State of Ireland.”