ADDENDA.

The following changes and appointments took place during the printing of the Handbook:

RESIDENT MAGISTRATES.-Mr. W. H. Hyndman-Jones to be Resident Magistrate for Kingston vice Mr. N. Nathan appointed Puisne Judge, Trinidad. Mr. W. Brandford Griffiths to be Resident Magistrate for St. Catherine; Mr. H. A. Perry to be Resident Magistrate for St. Elizabeth; Mr. J. T. Musson to be Resident Magistrate for Portland.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.-Hon. C. B. Mosse, Superintending Medical Officer, resigned. Dr. D. M. M. Ross to be Junior Resident Medical Officer Public Hospital Kingston.

QUARANTINE BOARD.-The Hon. J. Pringle, Acting Superintending Medical Officer; Dr. Frank Saunders, Senior Medical Officer Public Hospital; F. B. Lyons, Esq., Merchant; Dr. C. Gayleard, District Medical Officer for Kingston; E. A. H. Haggart, Esq.; Mr. E. A. Foster, Secretary.

AMENDMENTS OF THE REGULATIONS FOR ADMISSION INTO THE CIVIL SERVICE OF JAMAICA.-Regulation 4.-Candidates must be over 18 and under 24 years of age on the 1st October in the year in which they present themselves for the Competitive Examination.

The following addition to Regulation 6 (instead of the addition approved under date the 27th August, 1889.)

The results of the Competitive Examination will be arrived at in the following way-The minimum number of marks in each subject will be deducted from the total number of marks obtained by a Candidate in that subject, and the remainder, or the number of marks obtained above the minimum, will be the number of marks in that subject which the Candidate will be allowed to score. It will therefore be of no advantage to a Candidate to take up a subject in which he cannot gain the minimum number of marks. The minimum number for Orthography and Handwriting will in future be 100 in each case instead of 200 which will thus render it possible for a Candidate to get 200 more marks in the total aggregate.

No Candidate shall be given an appointment in the Civil Service who obtains no marks (in excess of the number deducted as above) in Arithmetic, Orthography and Hand-writing, respectively, and no Candidate shall receive an appointment who obtains less than 500 marks in all (deductions as above having been made in each subject.)