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SCHEDULE.

1. THE whole of the foreshore of the Colony of New Zealand, including Stewart Island, the Snares, the Solander, and all other Islands in Foveaux Strait.

2. The whole of Chatham, Auckland, Campbell, and all other Islands between parallels 48½° and 53° of south latitude, and between 162° east and 173° west longitude.

The Gilchrist Scholarship.

Education Department,
Wellington, 6th April, 1886.

A SCHOLARSHIP 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 January 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 January examination for New Zealand will be held some time in the month of January, 1887, 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 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 personal 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 Schoolhouse 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, Gisborne, 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, Hokitika, Greymouth, Reefton, Westport, Nelson, Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Napier, Gisborne, Tauranga, Thames, Auckland, and Cambridge.

Tenders must be addressed to the Commissioner of Telegraphs, and indorsed “Tender for Advertising on Telegraph Posts.”

The Commissioner reserves the right of rejecting the highest or any tender.

C. LEMON,
Superintendent.

Officiating Ministers for 1886.—Notice No. 10.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1886.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Henry Edward Tuckey.

Bible Christians.

The Reverend John Orchard.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Call under “The Government Officers’ Guarantee Act, 1870.”

Government Buildings,
Wellington, 12th April, 1886.

IN pursuance of clause 15 of the regulations contained in an Order in Council bearing date the 10th day of November, 1874, I, James Clark Gavin, the Chairman of the Board appointed under “The Government Officers’ Guarantee Act, 1870,” do issue the following notice of a call under the said Act:—

JAMES C. GAVIN,
Chairman.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 9th April, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for preventing Chimneys Smoking, to be called “O’Donnell’s Tiny Smoke Preventative.”

RICHARD JOHN O’DONNELL, of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, Tinsmith, Plumber, and Gasfitter, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 24th day of June