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.

   III. Geography. The definitions. Asia and Australasia. The drawing from memory of an outline map of a Country in Asia, or a Colony in Australasia.

   IV. Bible History. The First and Second Books of Samuel; Acts of the Apostles.

   V. British History. From the death of George III. to the present time.

   VI. Dictation.

   VII. A simple Narrative, selected by the Examiners, to be read aloud to the competitors and reproduced by them.

   VIII. An Original Description or Account of some familiar object or operation, the subject to be selected by the Examiners.

   IX. Penmanship, as shown by the Competitors' Papers on the subjects before mentioned. Preference will be given to a plain round hand.

   X. Marks will be given for the reading of Prose and Poetry, and for Recitation.

   XI. For High School Competitors. French, Latin, Euclid—Book I. First ten Propositions.

4. It shall not be necessary to award a Scholarship to the best, or any other candidate, unless he shall have gained, in the aggregate, at least 75 per cent. of the maximum number of marks attainable; and the Board shall be at liberty to suspend or terminate any Scholarship on account of wilful misconduct or neglect of studies on the part of the holder.

5. Each holder of a Provincial Scholarship, in addition to a free education at the High School, shall receive free board and lodging, or a payment of £30 per annum in lieu thereof.

6. Free education, for terms not less than two years, nor more than five years, will be granted to the unsuccessful Competitors for Scholarships who shall have gained at least 60 per cent. of the whole number of marks attainable.

7. 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.

8. Certificates of merit will be granted to those Competitors who, though failing to gain the Scholarships, distinguish themselves greatly.

9. Schoolmasters must forward to the Secretary of the Education Board, on or before the 2nd of January, 1871, the names and ages of intending competitors belonging to their several schools.

   N.B.—In future years it is very probable that the maximum age of competitors in each class will be lower than at present by one year, and that other important changes will be made in the Regulations.

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

TO SCHOOLMASTERS.—The Directors of the Caledonian Society of Otago have resolved to bestow prizes upon Pupils of the Schools of Otago who shall show the greatest excellence in the following subjects, at a competitive examination to be held on or about the 2nd and 3rd of January next:—

I.—An examination, partly viva voce and partly written, on Scottish history during the period from the accession of James VI. (1603) to the death of Queen Anne.

II.—A Grammatical Analysis of a portion (to be prescribed at the examination) of the "Vision," by Robert Burns.

III.—Recitations from memory from the works of any writer in the Scottish language.

IV.—Recitations from memory from the works of any writer in the English language.

V.—General excellence in the whole of the preceding subjects.

The pieces selected for recitation to consist of not fewer than twenty lines. A First Prize of 20s. and a Second Prize of 10s. will be awarded in each of the five divisions abovementioned.

Intending competitors are requested to forward their names to the undersigned before December 25th, 1870.

W. S. Douglas, Secretary.

FLAGSTAFF ROAD BOARD.—The Ratepayers are requested to pay their respective rates to me, at my house, within a month of this date.—D. M'Quillan, Collector to Flagstaff Road Board. 17th October, 1870.

ALLDAY ROAD DISTRICT.—Ratepayers are hereby requested to pay their respective sums to me, at my house, on or before the 12th day of November next.—Alex. Pirie, Collector. Otepopo, 14th October, 1870.

HERBERT ROAD DISTRICT.—Ratepayers are hereby requested to pay the amount of their respective rates to me, at my house, on or before the 12th day of November next.—Alex. Pirie, Collector. Otepopo, October 14, 1870.

ROSLYN ROAD BOARD.—Ratepayers are requested to pay the amount of their respective rates to me, at my house, Sunnyside, on or before the 10th day of November, 1870.—William Ellison, Collector. October 11, 1870.

SIGNAL HILL ROAD DISTRICT.—Notice is hereby given, that a precept has been issued for an Acreage Rate of Sixpence per acre, and the same is payable on or before 12th November.—Henry Duncan, Collector. 12th October, 1870.