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shall not apply to subjects of the country where the
desertion shall take place.
Each of the two high contracting parties reserves
to itself the right of terminating this agreement at
any time, on giving to the other a year's notice of
its wish to that effect.
In witness whereof the undersigned, duly autho-
rized for that purpose, have signed the present
agreement, and have affixed thereto the seal of their
arms.
Done at London, in duplicate, the twenty-first day
of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one.
(L.S.) GRANVILLE.
(L.S.) FALBE.

Resignation of Volunteer Officer.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by the under-mentioned officer :-
E Battery of Artillery.
Captain David Craig. Date of resignation, 10th
January, 1882.
JOHN BRYCE.

Designation of Post Office changed.

Post Office and Telegraph Department,
Wellington, 25th January, 1882.
IT is hereby notified for general information that
the designation of the Post Office in the Auck-
land Postal District, known as Richmond, will, from
and after the 1st proximo, be changed to
MATATA.
By order of the Postmaster-General.
W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Judges appointed to try certain Election Petitions.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand. In the
matter of "The Election Petitions Act, 1880."
IN exercise of the powers vested in me by "The
Election Petitions Act, 1880," I hereby appoint

Sir JAMES PRENDERGAST and
THOMAS BANNATYNE GILLIES, Esq.,

being respectively Judges of the Supreme Court of
New Zealand, to be the Judges before whom shall
take place the trial of the election petition following,
that is to say,-

The petition of William Francis Buckland against
the return of Benjamin Harris for Franklin
North.
Given under my hand this 19th day of January,
1882.
JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Chief Justice.

The University of London and the Gilchrist
Scholarship.

Education Department,
Wellington, 31st December, 1881.
ASCHOLARSHIP of the value of £100 per
annum, and tenable for three years, is biennially
awarded to the highest among those candidates at the
London University June Matriculation Examination
held in New Zealand, who pass either in the Honours
or in the First Division, are not less than sixteen nor
more than twenty-two years of age, and are desirous
of prosecuting their studies either at the University
of Edinburgh, or at the University College, London,
with a view to graduation in one of the Faculties of
the University of London.
If any candidates offer themselves, the June ex-
amination for New Zealand will be held some time
in the month of June, 1882, or as soon after as the
examination papers arrive in the colony, and at such
place or places as may be hereafter fixed, having
regard to the candidates' places of abode.
Candidates will not be approved by the Examiners
unless they have shown a competent knowledge in
each of the following subjects, according to the details
specified under the several heads:-

1. Latin.
2. Any two of the following languages: (a) Greek,
   (b) French, and (c) German.
3. The English language, English history, and
   modern geography.
4. Mathematics.
5. Natural philosophy.
6. Chemistry.
   Particulars of the foregoing subjects of examina-
   tion will be found in the Calendar of the University
   of London, under the head of "Regulations-Matri-
   culation." The special Latin and Greek subjects for
   June, 1882, are Livy, Book II.; and Homer, Iliad,
   Book XVIII.
   The scholarship will be considered as commencing
   from the 1st July, 1883, but the first quarterly
   instalment will be paid to the successful candidate in
   the first week of October, 1883, at which time he
   will be expected to present himself to the Secretary
   of the Gilchrist Trust in London. Subsequent pay-
   ments will depend on attendance at three courses of
   lectures in every session, and on good conduct; and
   the scholar must present himself for the first ex-
   amination in one of the Faculties of the University
   of London before the end of the second year of the
   currency of his scholarship.
   Every candidate will be required to give satis-
   factory evidence that he is between the ages of six-
   teen and twenty-two years, and either that he is a
   native of New Zealand, or that he has resided in
   New Zealand for the last five years.
   Notice of entry, with satisfactory testimonials as
   to personal character, and the London matriculation
   fee of £2, must be sent to the Secretary for Educa-
   tion, Wellington, so as to reach his office not later
   than the 1st June, 1882.
   By order.
   JOHN HISLOP,
   Secretary for Education.

Crown Lands Notices.

Hot Lakes District, North Island.
SALE of Leaseholds for ninety-nine years in the
Township of Rotorua.
About 125 acres of the new Township of Rotorua,
near the Maori settlement of Ohinemutu, will be
offered for lease by public auction on the 7th March,
1882, at the Crown Lands Office, Auckland.
The business sites will comprise quarter-acre and
villa sites half-acre lots.
A few suburban lots of 5 acres and 10 acres each,
and small farms varying from 40 to 60 acres, will
also be offered.
The lots as marked on the plan will be let on lease
for ninety-nine years, under arrangement made by the
Government of New Zealand with the proprietors of
the soil.
The letting will be by auction, at the office of the
Commissioner of Crown Lands, in Auckland, on the
7th March, 1882.