THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 463
Post Offices opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th July, 1874.
THE following List of additional Post Offices which
have been opened in the Colony is published for
general information.
JULIUS VOGEL.

Post Offices closed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th July, 1874.
THE following List of Post Offices which have been
closed in the Colony is published for general
information.
JULIUS VOGEL.

Clerk in Treasury appointed.

Treasury,
Wellington, 10th July, 1874.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
THOMAS EYTON, Esq.,
to be a Clerk in the Treasury. This appointment to
take effect from the 1st instant.
JULIUS VOGEL.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 17 of 1874.

ENTRANCE TO PORT NICHOLSON, COOK STRAIT.
Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 15th July, 1874.
NOTICE has been received from the Harbour
Master, Wellington, that Pilot Holmes reports
the existence of two Sunken Rocks off Barrett's Reef,
one lying about 100 feet to the eastward, and the
other about the same distance to the westward, of
the Outer Rock-the three lying nearly in a line
East and West. There is 12 feet water on these
rocks at low water, with deep water all round.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

"Marriage Act, 1854."
OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1874.—NOTICE No. 13.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 13th July, 1874.
PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following names of Officiating Ministers
within the meaning of the said Act are published for
general information :-

Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend WILLIAM HENRY BECK.
" JOSEPH HENRY SIMMONDS.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

University of New Zealand.
SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION, 1875.

THE following are the subjects in which Candidates
for University Scholarships will be examined at
the next Examination for University Scholarships;
also the Text Books recommended on certain sub-
jects :-

CLASSICS.
Greek { Sophocles-Edipus Tyrannus.
Thucydides-Book VII.
Latin { Virgil-Æneid, Books I., II., III., IV.
Cicero-2nd Philippic.

MATHEMATICS.
Arithmetic.
Algebra.
Euclid-Books I. to VI. inclusive.
Plane Trigonometry.

PHYSICAL SCIENCE.
Botany.-Oliver's Lessons on Botany, second
edition (4s. 6d., Macmillan, May 2, 1869).
Zoology, Physiology. - Nicholson's Introductory
Text Book for Junior Classes (3s. 6d., Blackwood,
May 1, 1871); Huxley's Elementary Lessons on
Physiology (Macmillan).
Geology.-Page's Introductory Text Book (7s. 6d.
and 2s., Blackwood, July, 1869).
Natural Philosophy. - Ward's Elements of Natural
Philosophy, specially for the use of Schools and
Junior Students (220 pp., 3s. 6d.).
Physical Geography. - Hughes' Physical Geography
(Phillips and Sons).
Chemistry. - Morris's Inorganic Chemistry (G.
Philip and Sons, 1872).

ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Shakspeare.-King Richard II.
English Essay.
Trench.-English, Past and Present.

EUROPEAN HISTORY.
From the taking of Constantinople by the Turks
to the end of the reign of Louis XIV.
Text Books recommended.
Hallam's Literature of the 15th, 16th, and 17th
Centuries.
Bryce's Holy Roman Empire.
Creasy's British Constitution.

MODERN LANGUAGES.
French.-Translation from French into English,
and from English into French.
Questions in Grammar and Construction.
German.-Translation from German into English,
and from English into German.
Questions in Grammar and Construction.
W. M. MASKELL, Secretary.

University of New Zealand.
SECOND YEAR'S SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION,
1875.
THE following are the subjects in which the
holders of University Scholarships of the year