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NOTICE is hereby given, that the following allotments, formerly a Police Paddock Reserve, will be offered for sale by public auction in the Survey Office, Queenstown, on Monday, the 28th day of November next, at noon:—

Frankton Township, 3 and 4 acre sections, 1 to 8, Block XXX.
Shotover District, 5 to 10 acre sections, 3 to 13, 15, 19 to 22, Block I.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the following allotments will be offered for sale by public auction in the Land Office, Dunedin, on Monday, the 28th day of November next, at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

Catlin’s District, Sections 1 to 22, Block I; 1 to 7, Block II; and 1 to 15, Block IV.

On that date, also, applications will be received for the unsurveyed part of the above-mentioned district situated between 9 and 10, Block I, and 13, Block VIII, Glenomaru District.

J. T. Thomson,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 25th October, 1870.

NOTICE TO AUCTIONEERS.—The Waste Land Board is prepared to receive Tenders till noon of Monday, 14th November, from persons willing to conduct all auction sales of Crown Lands within the districts around Oamaru, Waikouaiti, Dunedin, Tokomairiro, Balclutha, Mataura, Lawrence, Naseby, Clyde, and Queenstown.

The person whose tender is accepted, will be required to enter into a bond with two approved sureties, for the sum of £200, for the proper discharge of his duties.

Printed instructions may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the Land Office, Dunedin; at the Survey Offices, Queenstown, Clyde, Naseby, and Lawrence; and at the Police Offices, Oamaru, Waikouaiti, Tokomairiro, and Balclutha.

CAUTION.
THE Public are hereby cautioned not to set fire to any herbage or grass upon the Crown Lands within any Hundred, without the consent in writing of the Chief Commissioner of the Waste Land Board, previously obtained; as any person so offending is liable to a penalty of £5.

Further, by the “Malicious Injuries to Property Act 1867,” any person unlawfully and maliciously setting fire to any crop of hay, grass, corn, grain, or pulse, or of any cultivated vegetable produce, whether standing or cut down, or to any part of any wood, coppice, or plantation of trees, or to any heath, gorse, furze, or fern, wheresoever the same may be growing, shall be guilty of felony.

J. T. Thomson,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Land Board.
13th October, 1870.

LITHOGRAPH MAPS of the Province of Otago, and of the surveyed Towns, Blocks, and Districts therein, may be obtained at the Land Office, Dunedin; at Mr. Livingston’s, bookseller, Princes street; and at the agencies of Mr. Livingston, Oamaru; Mr. Smith, Waikouaiti; Mr. Stoddart, Hampden; Messrs. B. Hibbard and Co., Tokomairiro; and at the Survey Offices at Queenstown, Clyde, Naseby, and Lawrence, so far as relates to the Districts, &c., adjacent to them; but any map not on hand at any of the Survey Offices may be ordered through them.

All the surveyed Towns and Blocks have been lithographed—price 1s. each. The Districts now lithographed on a scale of 80 chains to an inch are Awamoko, Papakaio, Oamaru, Kauroo, Otapopo, and Moeraki—price 5s. each.

LAND open for sale on 18th May, 1870.—See Gazette published 19th May, 1870, which may be had at the various Survey and Police Stations throughout the Province, and at the Land Office, Dunedin.

NOTICE TO SCHOOLMASTERS.—The Education Board has resolved that Three Scholarships shall be offered for Competition this year; two of these for pupils of the Grammar and District Schools, and one for High School pupils. No full Scholarship will be awarded unless 75 per cent. of the total number of marks be obtained. This standard will be raised to 80 per cent. at the beginning of 1872.

All competitors from Grammar and District Schools, obtaining 60 per cent. and upwards, will be entitled to the following advantages:—

60 to 65 per cent., 2 years’ Free Education
65 to 70 " " 3 " "
70 to 75 " " 4 " "
75 to 80 " " 5 " "

Competitors residing in Dunedin and suburbs, entitled to Free Education under the preceding regulation, must attend the High School. Competitors residing beyond reach of Dunedin, may attend the nearest Grammar School or approved Main District School, at their option. The subjects of examination will shortly be published.

John Hislop, Secretary.

PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.—The following Regulations of the Education Board respecting Provincial Scholarships are published for general information. Schoolmasters are requested to forward to me, before the 2nd January, 1871, a list containing the names and ages of intending competitors belonging to their several schools.

By order of the Education Board,
John Hislop, Secretary.

REGULATIONS.

1. Three Scholarships, in connection with the High School, shall be open for competition next January, to boys who shall have been in attendance at the public schools of Otago during the year 1870. Two of the said Scholarships shall be bestowed on boys from the District Schools, and one on a boy who has attended the High School. Competitors from the District Schools must be under fourteen years of age, and those from the High School under thirteen years, on the 1st of January, 1871.

2. The holders for the time being of the said Scholarships shall be called “Provincial Scholars,” and shall be entitled to the privileges and advantages hereinafter specified. A Scholarship shall be tenable as long as the holder of it remains a pupil of the High School, but not longer than five years.

3. The said Scholarships respectively shall be awarded to such candidates as shall have shown the greatest proficiency at a Competitive Examination, to be held on such day or days in the month of January, 1871, next, and at such places as the Education Board shall appoint, and such Competitive Examination shall be by written papers, and shall embrace the following subjects:—

I. Arithmetic. Questions involving a knowledge of the Simple and Compound Rules, Reduction, Practice, Simple and Compound Proportion, Simple and Compound Interest, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, Extraction of the Square Root, and Mensuration.

II. English Grammar, including the analysis of sentences of an easy nature.