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are given as indicating the character and amount of
reading thaat would be regarded as satisfactory :-
History of England.
Any one of the following periods, to be studied specially in the
text-books named:-

1. Henry II. to Edward III., A.D. 1154-1377.-
   Stubbs' Select Charters; Stubbs' Constitutional
   History of England.
2. The Tudors, A.D. 1485-1603.-Hallam's Con-
   stitutional History of England; Froude's History of
   England.
3. The Stuarts, A.D. 1603-1714.-Hallam's Con-
   stitutional History of England; Macaulay's History
   of England.
4. A.D. 1714-1805.-Lord Stanhope's History;
   Sir T. E. May's Constitutional History; either
   Massey's Reign of George III., or Lord Stanhope's
   Life of Pitt.
   English Literature.
   Poetry.
   Shakespeare.-Three plays, one from each of the
   following groups :-
   (a) Macbeth, Othello, Lear, Hamlet.
   (b) Coriolanus, Julius Cæsar, King John, Henry V.
   (c) Tempest, Merchant of Venice, Romeo and
   Juliet, As You Like It.
   And any two of the following:-
5. Chaucer.-Prologue to the Canterbury Tales,
   with the Prioress' Tale, and the Clerk's Tale.
6. Milton.- First four books of Paradise Lost, or
   Paradise Regained, or Comus and Samson Agonistes.
7. Dryden.-Absalom and Achitophel, and Hind
   and Panther.
8. Pope.-Imitations of Satires and Epistles of
   Horace.
9. Gray.-Poems.
   Prose.
   Bacon.-Essays, or Advancement of Learning.
   And any two of the following:-
10. Milton-Areopagitica; and Locke-On the
    Conduct of the Understanding.
11. Clarendon-History of the Rebellion, from the
    Treaty between the King and the Parliament, at the
    end of Book VI., to the Death and Character of
    Falkland in Book VII.; and De Foe-Memoirs of a
    Cavalier (ch. viii. to the end).
12. Addison.-Coverley Papers, Essay on Imagi-
    nation, and Criticisms on Milton.
13. Johnson." Six Chief Lives of the Poets," viz. :
    -Of Milton, Dryden, Swift, Addison, Pope, and Gray;
    with Macaulay's Biography of Johnson.
14. Burke.-Reflexions on the French Revolution;
    or Appeal from New to Old Whigs, with Speech on
    American Taxation.
15. Macaulay.-Essays on Addison, Byron, Wal-
    pole, Mackintosh, Temple, and Madame D'Arblay.

Commissioners under "The Reprint of Statutes Act,
1878," appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1879.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
His Honor Mr. Justice JOHNSTON,
WALTER SCOTT REID, Esq., Solicitor-General, and
JOHN HENRY SHAW, Esq., LL.B.,
to be Commissioners under "The Reprint of Statutes
Act, 1878;" and also to appoint
JOHN CURNIN, Esq., B.A.,
to be Secretary to such Commissioners.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Judge appointed under "Thames Harbour Board Act,
1878."
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1879.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
His Honor Mr. Justice JOHNSTON
to be the Judge for the purposes of the fifth section
of "The Thames Harbour Board Act, 1878."
G. S. WHITMORE.

Health Officer, Lyttelton, appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1879.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint
JOHN THOMAS ROUSE
to be a Health Officer under "The Public Health
Act, 1876," for the Port of Lyttelton, vice Dr.
Donald, resigned.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Member of Te Puna Highway Board appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1879.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ROBERT MATHESON
to be a Member of the Te Puna Highway Board,
Auckland, vice J. H. Mandeno, resigned.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Clerk of Assessment Court appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1879.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM BLANE
to be Clerk of the Assessment Court for the Kanieri
Road Board District.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Auditor appointed for Tapanui Rabbit District.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1879.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JAMES AUGUSTUS MOONEY
to be an Auditor to audit the accounts of the
Tapanui Rabbit District.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Appointment of Poundkeeper, Tauranga, approved.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1879.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve of the appointment made by the Tau-
ranga North Township Highway Board of
GEORGE REDFERN
as Poundkeeper of the Tauranga Public Pound, vice
E. Robertson, resigned.
G. S. WHITMORE.