HIGH SCHOOL, DUNEDIN.

THE High School will be opened upon Monday the 3rd of August next, at 10 o'clock a.m.

ACTING PRINCIPAL: -- George Perry Abram, Esq., M.A., late Senior Scholar and Prizeman of Clare College, Cambridge, and Second Master of the Wolverhampton Grammar School.

MATHEMATICAL MASTER: -- Daniel Brent, Esq., M.A., late Senior Scholar and Prizeman of Queen's College, Cambridge, and one of the Mathematical Masters of Tonbridge School.

The Classical, Mathematical, English, and other departments will be conducted by Messrs Abram and Brent at the outset, but such additional Masters and Assistants will be engaged from time to time, as the attendance and the requirements of the pupils may render necessary.

Every boy before being admitted a pupil of the High School, must be upwards of nine years of age, and must be able to read with ease a simple prose narrative; to write from dictation with tolerable correctness; and to work sums in the first four rules of arithmetic. Every pupil must learn at least one foreign language, either ancient or modern.

Rates of School Fee: Ten pounds per annum, payable quarterly in advance. When three boys of the same family attend the school at one time, half of the fee for the third boy will be remitted; and when more than three of the same family attend at one time, the fee for three only will be charged.

The Secretary is instructed to assist parents or guardians at a distance from Dunedin, to procure information respecting suitable board and lodging for their boys whom they may wish to be in attendance at the High School.

By Order,

JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary.

Education Board Office,
Dunedin, July 17th, 1863.

Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 27th July, 1863.

ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

I HEREBY Certify that John Francis Macbeth, of Port Chalmers, has this day proved to my satisfaction, that he is duly qualified to practise as a Surgeon, in accordance with the provisions of an Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council of New Munster, Session I, No. 2, of 1849, intituled “An Ordinance to Define the Qualifications, and to Provide for the Remuneration in certain cases of Medical Practitioners.”

Dated at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers, this 22nd day of July, 1863.

THOS. A. MANSFORD,
Resident Magistrate.

Province of Otago,
New Zealand to wit.

I HEREBY CERTIFY, That John Gibson Smith, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, has this day submitted for my examination his Diploma as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, as likewise a Diploma as a Licentiate of Midwifery from the same College, in accordance with the provisions of an Ordinance, passed by the Legislative Council of New Munster, Session I, No. 2, of 1849, intituled “An Ordinance to define the qualifications, and to provide for the remuneration in certain cases of Medical Practitioners.”

Dated at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin, this 27th day of July, 1863.

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Resident Magistrate.

ABSTRACT of ADVERTISEMENTS from the “Provincial Government Gazette” of 22nd July, 1863:-

Dairy Farm to Let near Tuapeka. Tenders to be lodged by noon of 4th August.

Confiscated, Unclaimed, and Miscellaneous Property (as per list in “Gazette”) to be sold by auction, at the Police Station, Dunedin, at noon of 6th August, unless claimed and identified previously.

The “Provincial Government Gazette” may be had through any of the booksellers, and may be seen at the District Post Offices, the District Police-offices, and the various Ferries of the Province.

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

TENDERS FOR MAILS

TENDERS will be received at this office on or before the 1st August next, for the performance of the undermentioned Mail services, from early in August to 31st December next.

Conveyance of Mails twice weekly between Dunedin and Oamaru.

Conveyance of Mails twice weekly between Clutha Ferry and Kaitangata township via the new North Molyneux road.

Tenders to be at per annum, and security will be required as to hours of arrival and departure to be fixed by the Postmaster.

Parties tendering are required to describe the conveyance by which they propose carrying out the service; and also to give the names of their proposed sureties.

ARCH. BARR,
Chief Postmaster,
Dunedin, 17th July, 1863.