currents, tides, the earth's atmosphere, winds and storms, dew, clouds, rain, climate, general distribution and nature of volcanos, earthquakes, general distribution of animal and vegetable life. MEDICAL COMMISSIONS. Further information may be had from the following authorities: NAVY:-Director General, Medical Department, Admiralty, ARMY:-Adjutant-General to the Forces, Horse Guards, War INDIA:-Military Secretary, India Office, Westminster, Lon- IX.-HOME CIVIL SERVICE. CLERKSHIPS (CLASS I).-REGULATIONS. 1. The limits of age for these situations are 22 and 24, and Candidates must be of the prescribed age on the first day of the Competitive Examination. EXTRACT FROM THE REGULATIONS RESPECTING OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR CLERKSHIPS (CLASS I.) IN THE CIVIL SERVICE. "Out of the list resulting from each Examination will be filled (provided there be Candidates duly qualified):(a) All the vacancies in Class I. which may have been reported to the Civil Service Commissioners up to the date of the announcement of the result of the Examination. (b) Any additional vacancies occurring within six months from the date of the announcement of the result of the Examination, which the Head of the Department may desire to have so filled. Candidates will be allowed to choose, according to their place on the list, among the vacancies (a) for which they are duly qualified; or they may elect to wait for the chance of a vacancy (b). When vacancies (b) occur, they will be offered in rotation to the qualified Candidates then on the list, who will be free to decline them without forfeiting their claim to subsequent vacancies (b). The subjects of Examination for the Home Civil Service are substantially the same as those prescribed for the Indian Civil Service. Further information with regard to appointments in the Post Office, War Office, and Admiralty, may be obtained on application to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, London, S. W. X.-CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA. No person will be deemed qualified who shall not satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners :-(i.) That he is a naturalborn subject of Her Majesty. (ii.) That his age will be above twenty-one years and under twenty-three years on the 1st day of the year in which the Examination is held. (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. For the Examination commencing on the 3rd August, 1897, application must be made on the prescribed form on or before the 1st June, 1897, accompanied by a list of the subjects in which the Candidate desires to be examined. Further information with regard to appointments in the Post Office, War Office, and Admiralty, may be obtained on application to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, London, S. W. 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 Open Competitive Examination will take place only in the following branches of knowledge: English Composition, Sanskrit Language and Literature, Arabic, ditto, ditto, Greek, ditto, ditto, Latin, ditto, ditto, English, ditto, ditto (including special period named by the Commissioners), French Language and Literature, German, ditto, ditto, Mathematics (pure and applied), Marks. 500 500 500 750 750 500 500 500 900 900 Advanced Mathematical subjects (pure and applied), Natural Science, i.e. any number not exceeding three of Greek History (Ancient, including Constitution), English History, General Modern History (period to be selected by Candi dates from list in the Syllabus issued by the Commis- Political Science (including Analytical Jurisprudence, the tion), Roman Law, English Law. Under the head of " English Law" * A Syllabus, defining in general terms the character of the Examination in the various subjects, may be obtained on application to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission. Candidates are at liberty to name any or all of these branches of knowledge. No subjects are obligatory. The marks assigned to Candidates in each branch will be subject to such deduction as the Civil Service Commissioners may deem necessary, in order to secure that "a Candidate be allowed no credit at all for taking up a subject in which he is a mere smatterer." Marks assigned in English Composition and Mathematics will be subject to no deduction. Each science will, for the purpose of deduction, be treated as a separate subject. The Examination will be conducted on paper and vivá voce. The Candidates who obtain the greatest aggregate number of marks will be deemed to be selected Candidates for the Civil Service of India, provided they appear to be in other respects duly qualified. Should any of the selected Candidates become disqualified, the Secretary of State for India will determine whether the vacancy shall be filled up or not. In the former case, the Candidate next in order of merit, and in other respects duly qualified, shall be deemed to be a selected Candidate. Examinations for Eastern Cadetships, viz. : FOR CADETSHIPS IN THE CIVIL SERVICES OF CEYLON AND OF HONG KONG, THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, AND THE PROTECTED STATES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. [The next Examination for Eastern Cadetships will be held under these Regulations. Alterations may be made for any subsequent Examination.] 1. The Cadets, who must be natural-born British subjects, are selected by open competitive examination held by the Civil Service Commissioners, to whom all inquiries on the subject should be addressed. The examinations for these appointments will, as a rule, be held in the month of August of those years in which vacancies have occurred in the Civil Service of Ceylon or in that of Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and the Protected States of the Malay Peninsula; and the successful Candidates will be allotted as and when opportunity offers, to the various Colonies or States in which vacancies may exist upon a consideration of all the circumstances, including their own wishes; but the requirements of the Public Service will rank before every other consideration, and the Secretary of State retains full discretion to allot as he thinks fit. 2. Candidates must be between the ages of 21 and 24 on the first day of August in the year in which the Examination is held, and must satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners that they are duly qualified in respect of health and character. They must be of sound constitution, possessed of good sight, and physically qualified for service in tropical climates, and they will be called upon to undergo a strict medical examination to test these points. 3. The subjects of the Examination are the same as those prescribed for the Indian Civil Service. 4. Application for permission to attend one of these Examinations must be made in the writing of the Candidate, at such times and in such manner as may be fixed by the Commissioners. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, LONDON, S. W., Forest Service of India. (Limits of Age, 17–20.) The Examination, which is conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners, usually takes place towards the end of June. SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION. Class I.-Obligatory Subjects. [In each of these subjects a Candidate must obtain not less than one-third of full marks in order to qualify.] Marks. 1. Mathematics (lower), viz. Algebra up to and includ- 2500 2. English Composition, 1000 3. German (400 for colloquial), 2000 |