The Chiefs of the Board of Ceremonies report the result of the recent test-exauninations of provincial chie jen graduates, candidates for admission to the pending Metropolitan competition. Of these 120 have been placed by the examiners in the first class, 480 in the second, and 736 in the third class; and memorialists propose that they should all be admitted to compete inthe forheoming examination for the degree of chin-shih of thoserelegated tothe fourth class, Some committed mistakes in their verse composition in respect of tones or rhymes. One individual made nonsense of his essays, another wrote two lines more than the prescribed number of verses, whilst a third eft a blank space for a character; and anew monalists recommend that these 14 in all should be excluded from the forthcoming competition. One candidate assigned wrong rhymes to no less than 5 words, and me-monalists suggest that he be excluded from competing of the next two examinations, whilst, in the case of another candidate, who, besides other mistakes, made use of " prohibited character, they recommend that he be turned back until the fourth examination from date.—Kescript already published.
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