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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 89

Arabic Language and Literature.—Translation as in Sanskrit; history of Arabic literature (including knowledge of such Arabic history as bears upon the subject); Arabic grammar; Arabic prosody.

English Law.—Under the head of “English law” are 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 are at liberty to offer any four, but not more than four.

English History.—The subject will include (a) the political history of Great Britain, Ireland, and the colonies; (b) the constitutional history of the United Kingdom. Candidates should be acquainted with the following authorities:—

PERIOD I.

Stubbs. Select Charters.

PERIOD II.

Prothero. Statutes and Constitutional Documents.
Gardiner. Documents of the Puritan Revolution.

All published by Clarendon Press, Oxford.

General Modern History.—Candidates may, at their choice, be examined in any one of the following periods:—1. From the accession of Charlemagne to the Third Crusade (A.D. 800 to A.D. 1193). 2. From the Third Crusade to the Diet of Worms (A.D. 1193 to A.D. 1521). 3. From the Diet of Worms to the death of Louis XIV (A.D. 1521 to A.D. 1715). 4. From the accession of Louis XV to the French Revolution of 1848 (A.D. 1715 to A.D. 1848). 5. From the Peace of Paris to the Treaty of Berlin (A.D. 1763–1878). Periods 3, 4, and 5 will include Indian history.

Candidates should be acquainted with the following authorities:—

PERIOD I, 800–1193.

Einhard: Vita Caroli Magni, from 800 A.D. Ed.: Pertz. Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum.
Lambert of Hersfeld. Ed.: Pertz.
Suger: Vita Ludovici VI. Ed.: (1) Migne; (2) Société de l’Histoire de France, 1868.
Otto of Freising: De gestis Frederici I. Ed.: Pertz. (Not to include the continuator.)

PERIOD II, 1193–1521.

Joinville: St. Louis. Ed.: (1) Petitot; (2) Michaud et Poujoulat; (3) Buchon; (4) Société de l’Histoire de France, 1868.
Philippe de Comines: Mémoires. Ed.: (1) Petitot; (2) Michaud et Poujoulat; (3) Buchon; (4) de Mandrot, Picard, Paris, 1901, 3.
Machiavelli: The Prince. English translation by Thompson: Clarendon Press.

PERIOD III, 1521–1715.

Sully: Economies Royales, up to the Treaty of Vervins. Ed.: Petitot, Michaud et Poujoulat.
Torcy: Mémoires. Ed.: Petitot, Michaud et Poujoulat.

PERIOD IV, 1715–1848.

Frederick II. Histoire de mon Temps, and La Guerre de Sept Ans. Ed.: Boutaric; or in Œuvres de Frédéric II. Decker, Berlin, 1846.
Malmesbury. Dairies and Correspondence. London, Bentley, 1844. Vol. II. Mission to the Hague. Pp. 66–443. Vol. III. Mission to Lisle. Pp. 369–599.
Metternich. Aus Metternich’s nachgelassenen Papieren. Autorisirte Original-Ausgabe. Vienna, 1880. Up to 1815. Or in English translation—Autobiography of Prince Metternich. Translated by Mrs. Napier. London, Bentley, 1880–1881.

PERIOD V, 1763–1878.

Malmesbury: As for Period IV. Metternich: As for Period IV. Bianchi: La politique du Compte Camille de Cavour, 1852–1861 (Turin, 1885). Bismarck: Gedanken und Erinnerungen von Bismarck (Ed.: H. Kohl, Stuttgart, 1898), up to 1878. Or in English translation—Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman: Reflections and Reminiscences, &c. Translated under supervision of A. J. Butler (London, Smith, and Elder, 1898).

Greek History.—Questions (a) on the general and (b) on the constitutional history of Greece to the death of Alexander.

Roman History.—Questions (a) on the general and (b) on the constitutional history of Rome to the death of Vespasian. In Greek and Roman history candidates will be expected to show a knowledge of the original authorities.

Mathematics.—Plane geometry, including conic sections; solid geometry, including the method of orthogonal projection; algebra and plane trigonometry; elementary plane co-ordinate geometry; elementary mechanics of solids and fluids; geometrical optics, elements of differential and integral calculus with simple illustrations from other branches of the subject.

Advanced Mathematics.—Higher algebra (including theory of equations), plane and spherical trigonometry, differential calculus, integral calculus, differential equations, analytical geometry (plane and solid), statics including attractions, dynamics of a particle, rigid dynamics, hydrodynamics, the mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism.

Logic and Psychology.—Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy.—In both cases the history of the subject will be included.

Political Economy and Economic History.—Candidates will be expected to possess a knowledge of economic theory as treated in the larger text-books, also a knowledge of the existing economic conditions, and of statistical methods as applied to economic inquiries, together with a general knowledge of the history of industry, land-tenure, and economic legislation in the United Kingdom.

Political Science.—The examination will not be confined to analytical jurisprudence, early institutions, and theory of legislation, but may embrace comparative politics, the history of political theories, &c.

Candidates will be expected to show a knowledge of original authorities.

Civil Service Commission, July, 1907.

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, 1908.

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, 1908, an application on the prescribed form, a copy of which is sent herewith. No question as to the delay or loss in the post of any such application form can be entertained. Candidates who delay their applications until the last days will do so at their own risk.

Acknowledgments of such application forms are sent, and any candidate who has filled up and returned the printed application form but has not received an acknowledgment of it within four complete days should at once write to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, Burlington Gardens, London, W. Failure to comply with this provision will deprive the candidate of any claim to consideration.

The order for admission to the examination will be posted on the 20th July, 1908, 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, 15th July, 1907.

Regulations.

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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-two and had not attained the age of twenty-four on the 1st day of August 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,