the year 1872, at per folio, placing marginal plans on the same. Every information will be given on application at the Crown Grant Office, Invercargill.

AIKORAI Road Board.—Wanted Tenders for formation and culvert on road line through sections 13 and 50, Dunedin and East Taieri District. Mr Sonntag will be on the ground on Monday, the 19th, at 10 o’clock a.m., to show the work; and also, Tenders for certain formation and metal on road from Valley to Mornington, for which work Mr Barr will give all necessary information, and with whom all tenders must be lodged on or before Thursday, the 22nd.—J. Cunningham, Clerk to the Board.

WANTED, a Schoolmaster for Kaitangata School. Salary: £75, with school fees and residence. Applications to be lodged with R. Macdonald up to the end of February next. School to be opened on the 1st April, 1872.

WASTE LAND BOARD ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE to APPLICANTS for UNSURVEYED LAND under “Otago Waste Lands Act 1866.”—The Sections in the subjoined Schedule, being now Surveyed, the applicants are informed that the Waste Land Board will give its decision on their applications at this Office on Wednesday, the 14th day of February, 1872, at 12 o’clock noon; on or before which day, objections to the survey, if any, must be made. In the event of the applications being granted, the purchase money must be paid forthwith:

William Pile Gordon, section 1, block VIII, Strath-Taieri District
Alexander Miller, section 4, block II, Waipahi district
Robert Miller, section 7, block IX, Glenomaru district
Walter Mackeldar, section 7, block X, Hawksbury district

J. T. Thomson,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 31st January, 1872.

NOTICE.—The following sections included in the statement of Surveyed Land open for Selection (being outside Hundreds), are withdrawn, viz.:—Sections 10, 16 to 19, 21 to 28, block IV, Greenvale; 1, 8 to 11, 13, 19, 20 to 25, block V, Greenvale District.

J. T. Thomson,
Chief Commissioner Waste Land Board.
Waste Land Board Office,
31st January, 1872.

MONDAY, 19th February, noon.

NOTICE is hereby given that Section 6, Block I, Awamoko District, containing 177 acres 2 roods, and Section 73, Block V, Oamaru District, containing 4 acres 2 roods, formerly reserved for quarry purposes, will be offered for sale by public auction, by Mr Samuel Shrimski, at his auction rooms, Oamaru, on Monday, the 19th day of February 1872, at noon, the former at the price of £1 per acre, the latter as land of special value at the upset price of 21s per acre.

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.

THURSDAY, 8th March, noon.

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 Thursday, the 8th day of March 1872, at noon, at the upset price of £12 10s each.

NOTICE is hereby given that Section 18, Block VII, Oamaru District, containing 63a 3r 27p, and 48, Block VI, Awamoko District, containing 10a 1r 16p, will be offered for sale by public auction, by Mr Samuel Shrimski, at his auction rooms Oamaru, on Thursday, the 7th day of March, 1872, at noon, at the upset price of £2 per acre.

NOTICE is hereby given that Sections 2 of 45 and 3 of 45, Block IV, Dunedin and East Taieri District, containing respectively 40a and 73a 3r 12p, will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Thursday, the 7th day of March, 1872, at noon, at the upset price of 10s per acre.

NOTICE is hereby given that the remaining parts 5 and 7, Block XI, containing respectively 49a 0r 20p and 47a 2r 20p, and Sections 8 and 9, Block XI, Clutha district, containing respectively 49a 1r and 49a 1r 24p, will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Crown Hotel, Balclutha, on Thursday, the 7th day of March, 1872, at noon, at the upset price of 10s per acre.

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. School masters 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.