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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 95

I. From the accession of Charlemagne to the Third Crusade (A.D. 800 to A.D. 1193).
II. From the Third Crusade to the Diet of Worms (A.D. 1193 to A.D. 1521).
III. From the Diet of Worms to the death of Louis XIV (A.D. 1521 to A.D. 1715).
IV. From the accession of Louis XV to the French Revolution of 1848 (A.D. 1715 to A.D. 1848).
V. From the Peace of Paris to the Treaty of Berlin (A.D. 1763 to A.D. 1878).

Candidates should be acquainted with the following authorities:—

PERIOD I, 800–1193.

Einhard: Vita Caroli Magni, from 800 A.D. Editions: (1) Pertz; (2) Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum.
Lambert of Hersfeld. Edition: Pertz.
Suger: Vita Ludovici VI. Editions: (1) Migne; (2) Société de l’Histoire de France, 1868.
Otto of Freising: De gestis Frederici I. Edition: Pertz. (The continuators are included.)

PERIOD II, 1193–1521.

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

PERIOD III, 1521–1715.

Sully: Mémoires, up to the Treaty of Vervins. Editions: (1) Petitot; (2) Michaud et Poujoulat.
Torcy: Mémoires. Editions: (1) Petitot; (2) Michaud et Poujoulat.

PERIOD IV, 1715–1848.

Frederick II. Histoire de mon Temps, and La Guerre de Sept Ans. Editions: (1) Boutaric; (2) Œuvres de Frédéric II, published by Decker, Berlin, 1846.
Malmesbury (First Earl of). Diaries 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. Or in English translation—Memoirs of Prince Metternich. Richard Bentley and Son, London, 1880–82. To be studied up to the year 1815.

PERIOD V, 1763–1878.

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

Logic and Psychology.—The history of the subject will be included.

Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy.—The history of the subject will be included.

Political Economy and Economic History.—Candidates will be expected to possess a knowledge of economic theory; of the existing economic conditions; of statistical methods; and 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.

English Law.—Law of contract; law of evidence; law of the Constitution; criminal law; law of torts.

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The following applies only to Candidates for Clerkships on the Establishment of the Foreign Office, for Attachéships in the Diplomatic Service, and for Student Interpreterships in China, Japan, and Siam:—

Spanish: History of the Language and Literature.—Passages for translation may be set, and questions asked, demanding a knowledge of the language in its early stages; but it will not be obligatory upon candidates to master in detail the old forms in use before 1500.

Civil Service Commission, July, 1910.

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, 1911.

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, 1911, 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, 1911, 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, August, 1910.

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 for such number of appointments to that Service as the Secretary of State may on each occasion determine. 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,—

(i.) That he is a natural-born subject of His Majesty.

(ii.) 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.

(iii.) That he has no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily infirmity unfitting him, or likely to unfit him, for the Civil Service of India.*

(iv.) 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 thirty-eight subjects†:—

Marks.

1. English composition .. .. .. 500
2. Sanskrit language and literature .. .. 800
3. Arabic language and literature .. .. 800
   Greek, not less than two subdivisions, of which one must be translation:—
4. Translation .. .. .. 400
5. Prose composition .. .. .. 200

• The Civil Service Commissioners will regard no person as constitutionally fitted for appointment to the Civil Service of India who has not been satisfactorily vaccinated within the last seven years.

† A syllabus defining the character of the examination in the various subjects may be obtained on application to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, London W.