MILITARY CADETSHIPS.

The Secretary of State for War has consented to a temporary renewal of the system by which a yearly nomination to the Royal Military College was formerly allowed to each of the chartered Universities in colonies not having a Military College through which Commissions in the Army may be obtained.

The Regulations may be seen at the Registrar's Office. The upper limit of age for candidates is now 20 years.

Applications must be received on or before the 1st February in each year.

COMMISSIONS IN THE BRITISH ARMY.

The nomination for appointment to a Commission in the British Army formerly placed at the disposal of the Council is for the present suspended.

COMMISSIONS IN THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL

CORPS.

The Army Council has approved of the nomination for Commissions in the Royal Army Medical Corps of two candidates annually from the Medical Schools of Australia; one candidate to be nominated in each half-year. The Regulations may be seen at the Registrar's Office.

Applications for nomination must be received not later than March 1st, and September 1st in each year.

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RHODES SCHOLARSHIP.

REGULATIONS FOR THE ELECTION OF RHODES SCHOLARS FOR VICTORIA, 1909.

1. Candidates must be British subjects or sons of British subjects, unmarried, and not less than 19 or more than 25 years of age on the 1st of October in the year for which they are elected.

2. Candidates must have been resident for at least seven years in the Commonwealth of Australia or its dependencies, in New Zealand, or in Fiji, and for the three years immediately preceding the election must have been resident in Victoria.

3. Candidates, other than those referred to in Section 4, must have passed in the subjects of Responsions in the Melbourne University Matriculation or Junior Public Examination, or in some other examination deemed equivalent by the Committee of Selection. (The subjects of Responsions" are Greek, Latin, Arithmetic and either Algebra (Elementary), or Euclid, Books I., II., and III.)

4. Candidates who have completed two full years of any course in a University recognised for the purpose by the University of Oxford, and have passed in all subjects of those two years, may be admitted to the status of Junior Colonial Student in the University of Oxford, and are not required to have passed in the subjects of Responsions, though they will have to pass in Greek before proceeding to a degree in the University of Oxford.

5. In the selection of a scholar regard will be paid to the following qualifications of candidates:

(a) Literary and scholastic attainments.

(b) Fondness for and success in manly outdoor sports.

(c) Qualities of manhood, truth, etc.

(d) Exhibition during schooldays or subsequently of moral force of character, and of instincts to lead and take an interest in his schoolmates, etc.

6. Each candidate must furnish to the Chairman of the Committee of Selection:

(a) A certificate that he is within the eligible limits

of age.

(b) Evidence that he has passed in the following
subjects at the Melbourne University Matricu-
lation or Junior Public Examination or at some
other Examination deemed equivalent by the
Committee of Selection viz.:-Greek, Latin,
Arithmetic and either Algebra or Geometry.
(This will not be required from candidates who
are excused from Responsions under Section 4.)
(c) A certificate from the Head of his School or Col-
lege, or other person competent to judge, stat-
ing that the candidate is, in his opinion, able
to pass the Responsions Examination at Ox-
ford. (This will not be required in the case of
candidates who are excused from Responsions
under Section 4.)

7. Each candidate must furnish certificates dealing with the various qualifications set forth in Section 5. The Committee will give due weight to certificates from Heads of Colleges and Schools and from other persons and bodies competent to judge in regard to all or any of these qualifications.

8. Should it seem advisable, the Committee of Selection will apply to the candidates or any selected number of them such further intellectual tests as it may deem necessary. No candidate will be finally elected without a personal interview.

9. The elected scholar will be furnished by the Chairman of the Committee of Selection with a memorandum prepared by the Representative of the Trustees at Oxford of the steps necessary to be taken to have his name enrolled at one of the Colleges of the University.

Candidates must send in applications accompanied by the required certificates and statements not later than 24th February, 1910.

All communications in regard to the Rhodes Scholarship must be addressed to the President of the Professorial Board. University of Melbourne, and must be endorsed with the words "Rhodes Scholarship."

For the information of candidates, attention is drawn to the fact that the Scholarship, which is of the value of £300 per annum for three years, will be paid in quarterly instalments, the first on beginning residence at Oxford, and thereafter terminally on the certificate of his College that his work and conduct have been satisfactory. Without such certificate the Scholarship lapses.

ADMISSION OF

BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS.

EXTRACT FROM THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION AS AMENDED ON NOVEMBER 28TH, 1905.

2. Every applicant for admission to practise as a barrister and solicitor must be a natural-born or naturalised British subject of the full age of 21 years, of good fame and character.

3. Every person not previously admitted to practise in some other part of His Majesty's dominions must qualify in one of the ways herein provided.

4. Any person who has obtained the degree of Bachelor of Laws in the University of Melbourne, and thereafter has served one year as a pupil under articles to a erson practising as a barrister or solicitor, or as a barrister and solicitor, may be admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor.

5. Any person who has complied with the following conditions marked (a), (b), and (c) may be admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor:

(a) He must before presenting himself for any of the examinations mentioned in (b), have passed an examination or examinations which would entitle him, according to the Statutes and Regulations of the University of Melbourne, to enter for the examination for the first year of the course for the degree of Bachelor of Laws.

(b) He must pass at the annual examinations of the University of Melbourne, in the manner prescribed herein in the following subjects:

(1) Law of Property in Land and Conveyancing. (2) Law of Contract and Personal Property. The examination in these subjects must be passed before beginning the service under articles provided for in (c).

(3) Constitutional History and Law Tut I. (4) Private International Law.

(5) Administrative Law.

(6) Equity.

(7) Law of Wrongs (Civil and Criminal).
(8) Law of Procedure and Evidence.

(9) Constitutional History and Law Part III.
(Constitution of the Commonwealth of
Australia).