FEMALE CLERK S. POST OFFICE. FEMALE CLERKS (METROPOLITAN OFFICES) Limited Competition : 1. *Handwriting and Orthography. 2. *English Grammar and Composition. 3. *Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal 4. *Geography. RETURNERS OF LETTERS IN METROPOLITAN OFFICES COUNTERWOMEN IN METROPOLITAN OFFICES Limited Competition : 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting. 3. Arithmetic (elementary). HOUSEKEEPER (London) Nomination :- 1. Writing tolerably a few lines. 2. Reading Manuscript. 3. Addition (Simple and Compound). FEMALE CLERKS.-POST OFFICE. EXAMINATION PAPERS. DICTATION. Limits of Age. 17 to 20. 17 to 20. 20 to 30. 25 to 45. Cromwell, now Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland, set to work to carry out Edward the First's idea of a union of England and Scotland. This union was agreed to in the year 1654. It was then settled that Scotland should be represented by thirty members in the English Parliament. Free trade was established between the two countries. Great changes were also made in the Church Government. The assembly was closed, and the power of the Church Courts was done away with. The country was divided into five districts, and the care of providing ministers to the different parishes was laid upon a certain number of ministers to be chosen from these districts. In order to improve the state of the people all feudal dues were taken away. A fixed rent in money was substituted for all the services and restrictions to which the land had hitherto been liable. The highlands were kept in order by the founding of garrisoned forts. The Protector, whose conquest had made Scotland prosperous, died September 3, 1658. His son Richard succeeded him in office, but he was not strong enough to keep order as his father had done. A time of great confusion followed, which ended in the recall and restoration of Charles. These subjects are obligatory. COPYING. Copy, on the form supplied, as much of the following, including the table of figures, as you can in half an hour, taking care to attend to the instructions given on the form, and to write as well as you can. N.B.-It is important that the copy should correspond LINE FOR LINE with the original. In this return are included all the contemplated additions, the particulars of which will be found in the accompanying Schedule of proposed Establishments. EXTRACT from a RETURN of the EXPENDITURE of the STRAITS (a) A return showing the charges under this head is attached. (b) Large additions have been sanctioned during the current year. (c) This estimate is based upon existing and probable pensions. (d) Includes Straits' Lights expenditure. Includes also "Shipping Office" expenses. (e) This is a heading directed by Government of India, but the expenditure being for maintenance of Government Steamers employed not only in suppression of Piracy, but also in relief of Troops, Service of Straits' Lights, and Conveyance of Government Officials, it might more properly be included under the head of Marine, ARITHMETIC (ELEMENTARY). You are requested (1) To write your name on the top of each of your papers. (2) To put the number to each question (3) To send up your work on complete sheets of paper, not on scraps, which are apt to get lost. 1. Write down in words 5002306. 2. Write down in figures Fifty million three thousand and twenty-six. K 3. Write down in figures Four million one hundred and seven thousand and eighty. The following questions are to be answered in the order in which they are set, and the working is to be shown up : S. Multiply 4382 by 3245. 9. Multiply £68947 14s. 3d. by 72. 10. Multiply £6195 14s. 101d. by 424. 11. Divide 9587640 by 3547. 12. Divide £109778 16s. by 48. 13. Divide £1222447 9s. 7 d. by 474. 14. Add together 3, 1, 2, and 13. 15. Subtract 91% from 123. 16. Multiply together, 4, 4, and 21. 17. Divide 5 by 311. 18. Add together 32699-77, 3·1524013, 1953, and '0042079. 19. Subtract 584 04945 from 860 32075. 20. Multiply 6.6954 by 428. 21. Divide 2398 by 5'45. 22. Express 3s. 4d. as the decimal of £5. 23. Reduce 4761075 oz. to tons, cwts., &c. 24, If 3 acres of land cost £726, what will be the value of 5 acres, 3 roods, 10 perches? 25. Find (by Practice) the dividend on £2,252 10s. at 13s, 9d. in the £. ADDITION. Add up as many of the columns as you can in the time allowed (an hour), placing the answers in the spaces provided. *** Two other similar sums were included in this Paper. You are not required to copy out the sums, but to write the answers in the spaces below each column. N'B. You had better occupy the whole time allowed. GEOGRAPHY. Time allowed, 1 hour. [N.B.-There are five questions altogether.] 1. State opposite to each of the following names, in what county the place is :-Lewes, Chichester, Devizes, Bridgewater, Wantage, Daventry, Gainsborough, Grantham, Aberystwith, Ripon, Wigan, Morpeth. 2. In what countries are the following towns? (Write your answer opposite to the question in each case.) Lima, Surinam, Muscat, Damascus, Rouen, Melbourne, Barcelona, Brindisi, Corinth, Bergen. 3. Describe the course of the River Humber or the River Tay, mentioning its tributaries, and the town on its banks, and anything you know about any of them. (Write your answer on this sheet.) 4. Give the best description you can of Italy or Russia. (Write your,description here.) 5. Write the best account you can of one of the following counties:Surrey, Perth, Antrim. SUBJECTS FOR ENGLISH COMPOSITION. Time allowed, 11⁄2 hour. In this exercise attention should be paid to handwriting, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and style. Relate any interesting event that has occurred since 1st January, 1875; or, Describe any town or village with which you are acquainted: or, Relate any fable; state the moral which it intended to convey, and discuss whether the moral is absolutely true; if it is not, state other rules by which it must be limited or corrected. The composition should fill not less than two folio pages. ENGLISH GRAMMAR (ELEMENTARY). 1. Can any of the parts of speech be known by their endings? Give examples, and state what part of speech generally ends in-ly? 2. Write down four nouns, govern them by four prepositions, qualify them with four adjectives, and qualify the same adjectives with four adverbs. 3. Give the past tense and perfect participle of the following verbs: read, fall, feel, run, see, saw, sow, wins, wind, wound, and burst. 4. Correct what is faulty in the following expressions: (1). She not only was beautiful, but accomplished also. (2). Every candidate must stand or fall on their own merits. (4). I had spoke to him about my intention to revisit your |