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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 fol-
lowing subject, 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 examination will
   be found in the Calendar of the University of London, under
   the head of “Regulations—Matriculation.” The special
   Latin and Greek subjects for January, 1887, are Cicero, De
   Senectute and Pro Lege Manilia; and Homer, Iliad, Book
   XVI.
   The scholarship will be considered as commencing from
   the 1st July, 1887, but the first quarterly instalment will be
   paid to the successful candidate in the first week of October,
   1887, at which time he will be expected to present himself to
   the Secretary of the Gilchrist Trust in London. Subsequent
   payments 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 examination 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 satisfactory
   evidence that he is between the ages of sixteen 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 per-
   sonal character, and the London matriculation fee of £2,
   must be sent to the Secretary for Education, Wellington, so
   as to reach his office not later than the 1st January, 1887.
   By order.
   WM. JAS. HABENS,
   Secretary for Education.

Tenders for Erection of Native Schoolhouse and Teacher’s
Residence.

Education Department,
Wellington, 31st March, 1886.

TENDERS will be received at this office up to noon of
the 30th April next for the erection of a Native School-
house and Teacher’s Residence at
Tangiteroria, Northern Wairoa;
and up to noon of the 31st May next for works on the East
Coast, between Hicks Bay and Tolago Bay, as follows:—
Rangitukia: School and residence.
Tikitiki: School.
Kawakawa: School and residence.
Tuparoa: School and residence.
Wharekahika: School and residence.
Tokomaru: Residence, and repairs to school.
Plans, &c., may be seen and forms of tender obtained on
application to the County Engineer, Dargaville; the Native
Agent, Auckland; the Resident Magistrates, Whangarei, Gis-
bome, and Napier; and the Schoolmaster, Waiomatatini.
In the case of the East Coast schools tenders may be for
the works as a whole, or for any one or more of the works;
but in any tender for more than one work the price at which
the tenderer is willing to undertake each separate work must
be stated.
Telegraphic tenders will be accepted provided the original
tender and deposit are lodged at the same time with one of
the Government officers above mentioned.
The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary for Education.

Tenders for the Right of Advertising on certain Telegraph
Posts throughout New Zealand.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1886.

TENDERS will be received by the Electric Telegraph
Commissioner, at the General Post Office, Wellington,
up to noon of the 26th day of April, 1886, from persons
desiring to lease the right of advertising on the telegraph
posts in any or all of the Provincial Districts of Auckland,
Hawke’s Bay, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson,
Westland, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland, which are not
erected on lines of railway or on railway premises.
Conditions of lease and form of tender can be obtained on
application at the telegraph offices at Invercargill, Dunedin,
Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Christchurch, Blenheim, Hoki-
tika, Greymouth, Reefton, Westport, Nelson, Wellington,
Wanganui, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Napier, Gis-
bome, Tauranga, Thames, Auckland, and Cambridge.
Tenders must be addressed to the Commissioner of Tele-
graphs, and indorsed “Tender for Advertising on Telegraph
Posts.”
The Commissioner reserves the right of rejecting the
highest or any tender.
C. LEMON,
Superintendent.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for straining-up Fencing Wire.
ARTHUR SHIELD, of Waikonini, Hawke’s Bay, in the
Colony of New Zealand, Sheep-farmer, has deposited at this
office a specification of the said invention; and I have ap-
pointed Tuesday, the 15th day of June next, at 11 o’clock in
the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and
all objections thereto; and I require all persons having an
interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to
leave, on or before the 31st day of May next, at this office,
particulars in writing of their objections to the said appli-
cation, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the
same.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.
No. 1769.
[This notice is republished on account of a clerical error
occurring in last week’s Gazette.]

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 29th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improvement in making,
composing, and using a Mixture or Composition to
form the Inside Lining of Furnaces for smelting Metallic
Ores, and the constituent parts thereof, to be called “The
Russell Fellows Patent Bottom-lining.”
GEORGE RUSSELL FELLOWS, of Onehunga, in the Pro-
vincial District of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zea-
land, Bricklayer, has deposited at this office a specification
of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the
15th day of June next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this
office, to hear the said application and all objections
thereto; and I require all persons having an interest in
opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or
before the 31st day of May next, at this office, particulars
in writing of their objections to the said application, other-
wise they will be precluded from urging the same.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.
No. 1770.
[This notice is republished on account of a clerical error
occurring in last week’s Gazette.]

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 29th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improved Reverberatory
Furnace and Calcining Ovens for smelting Gold, Silver,
and other Metallic Ores, or their constituent parts, to be
called “The Russell Fellows Smelting and Calcining Fur-
nace.”
GEORGE RUSSELL FELLOWS, of Onehunga, in the Provin-
cial District of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand,
Bricklayer, has deposited at this office a specification of
the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the
15th day of June next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this
office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto;
and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the
grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 31st
day of May next, at this office, particulars in writing of
their objections to the said application, otherwise they will
be precluded from urging the same.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.
No. 1771.
[This notice is republished on account of a clerical error
occurring in last week’s Gazette.]

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 29th March, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Seymour’s Patent Earth-
boxes for Closets, Commodes, &c.
FELIX SEYMOUR, of Auckland, in the Colony of New
Zealand, Draughtsman, has deposited at this office a speci-
fication of the said invention; and I have appointed Tues-