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EECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE. Eeceipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Voted by Parliament ... ... 250 0 0 Examiners'fees... ... ... 118 18 0 Fees... ... ... ... 120 7 0 Supervisors'fees ... ... 12116 0 Attendance fee of member of the Board, not being a member of the Civil Service ... ... ... 25 0 0 Hire of examination halls, and other incidental ... ... ... 15 2 6 £280 16 6 Balance ... ... ... 89 10 6 £370 7 0 £370 7 0

EXAMINATION PAPEES. I append copies of the examination papers set for the October, 1883, and April, 1884, examinations. I have, &c, G. S. Cooper, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary. Chairman.

APPENDIX. Civil Service Examination Papers, Octobeh, 1883. J TJ IIST I d u_ ENGLISH. 1. Write the passage dictated to you. 2. What is meant by accent ? Give six examples of words whose meanings are dependent upon accent, and explain the alteration in meaning caused by the alteration in accent. 3. Name the parts of speech which are subject to inflection, and enumerate the inflections of which they are capable. Give examples. 4. Correct the spelling, grammar, and punctuation of the following passage : " The ships were laying near the shore in three seperate squaddrons; their freezed rigging glitering in the rays of the setting sun. The few sailers, who the unparalelled rigour of the winter had spared, remained faithfull to their posts, though alltogether bereft of the hope of safety." 5. Analyse the last sentence of this passage (in Question 4) when you have corrected it. 6. Of the four seasons, which do you prefer ? Give your reasons fully. Passage for Dictation. Having terminated his disputes with every enemy, and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction; and, compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for awhile on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function—fathers torn from children, husbands from wives—enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spurs of drivers and the tramping of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. AEITHMETIC. 1. What is the eighty-seventh part of the difference between £1,740,056 14s. 3|d. and £912,822 2s. o|d. ? 2. A man was sft. lOin. high, the heels of his boots added fin. to his height, and he wore a hat 6in. high, but he pressed it down lfin. on his head, and then tried to walk under a cross-bar 2in. thick, the bottom.of which was 6ft. from the ground. How far was the top of the cross-bar from the top of his hat ? 3. If you had Jd. a second from the beginning of the month to the hour at which you commenced this paper, how much money would you have ?