MONDAY, 19th February, noon.

NOTICE is hereby given, that Sections 16, 18, 19, 1 of 20, and 2 of 20, Block IV, Kaitangata District, will be offered for sale by public auction, by Mr. R. W. Capstick, at his auction rooms, Tokomairiro, on Monday, the 19th day of February 1872, at noon, at the upset price of 10s. per acre.

Immediately thereafter, Section 20, Block VI, Clinton Township, will be offered at the upset price of £15.

TUESDAY, 20th February, noon.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the North part of Section 5, Block 29 (i.e., length ways), Clutha District, containing 24 acres, 1 rood, and 32 poles, will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Crown Hotel, Balclutha, on Tuesday, the 20th day of February 1872, at noon, at the upset price of £1 1s. per acre.

NOTICE is hereby given that sections Nos. 320, 349 and 372, Port Chalmers; and section 59, block 32, Dunedin, will be offered for sale by public auction, in the Land Office, Dunedin, on Monday, the 26th day of February 1872, at noon, at the upset price of £12 10s each.

J. T. Thomson,
Chief Commissioner Waste Land Board.

The undermentioned Occupiers of Land in Oteramika Hundred have obtained Licenses to depasture cattle within the said Hundred for the current year:—

John F. Dundas
Robert M. M’Callam, for N. Z. & A. Land Co.
John Drake
David M’Kay
George F. Richardson
John Birss
Abraham M’Kenzie
William Kerr

James Munro
Rodney S. Pasley
Thomas Denniston
James Henderson
Donald M’Lennan
Robert Richardson
William Dawson
Proctor Nicholson

A meeting for the election of Wardens for the Oteramika Hundred will be held at A. M’Kenzie’s, Old Junction Hotel, Oteramika, at noon on Thursday, the 8th February next.

Walter H. Pearson,
Commissioner Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 24th January, 1872.

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO.

THE SECOND SESSION will be Opened on 1st May, 1872.

1. Classics.—Separate Classes for Junior and Senior Latin and Greek. Professor: G. S. Sale, M.A.

2. Class for English Language and Literature. Professor: G. S. Sale, M.A.

3. Mathematics.—Separate Classes for Junior and Senior Mathematics; Junior and Senior Natural Philosophy. Professor: John Shand, M.A.

4. Mental and Moral Philosophy.—Classes for Logic, Mental Science, Moral Philosophy, and Political Economy. Professor: D. Macgregor, M.A., M.B.

5. Natural Science.—Classes for Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology. Professor: J. G. Black, M.A., D.Sc.

The session will last for six months continuously, during the entire course of which Instruction will be given to each class by the Professor, by means of Text Books, Lectures, and oral and written examinations. Matriculation fee £1.

The fee for each Class is Three Guineas per session. Intending students and persons desirous of obtaining information regarding matriculation, &c., &c., are requested to communicate with

A. Livingston, Secretary.

PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

THE Education Board has authorized the offering of Three Scholarships for competition: one for High School Pupils, and two for Boys who attended the District Schools in 1871. The examination will probably take place in February. Particulars will be given in next issue.

By order,
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 26th February, 1872, 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 on the 27th of February, 1872, to boys who shall have been in attendance at the public schools of Otago during the year 1871. 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 must be under fourteen years of age at the date of the competition.

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 at the High School on the day above specified; and such Competitive Examination shall be by written papers, and shall embrace the following subjects:

   I. Arithmetic and Algebra, as far as Simple Equations.

II. English Grammar, including the Analysis of Sentences.

III. Geography.—The definitions; New Zealand and North America; the drawing from memory of an outline map of a Country to be named by the Examiners.

IV. British History.—The Four Georges.

V. Dictation.

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

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

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

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

X. For High School Competitors.—French, Latin, Euclid—Book I, and Algebra.

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