25th day of April.—For particulars see former advertisement.

MONDAY, 29th April, noon.

NOTICE is hereby given that sections 7, 9, 11 and 12, block III, Kaitangata District, containing respectively 101a 2r 4p, 178a 3r 20p, 210a 3r 18p, and sections 13 and 14, block III, Akatore District, containing respectively 86a 0r 30p and 77a 2r 23p, will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Auction Rooms of Mr Capstick, Tokomairiro, on Monday, the 29th day of April next, at noon, at the upset price of 10s per acre.

EDUCATION RESERVES, SOUTHLAND.

APPLICATIONS will be received by Mr. John H. Baker, Survey Office, Invercargill, from persons wishing to lease any of the Reserves as formerly advertised.

Copies of the Otago Regulations, and conditions for the Leasing of Education Reserves can be obtained from Mr. Baker, Invercargill.

FRIDAY, 10th May.

NOTICE is hereby given that section 3, block I, Akatore district, containing 129a 3r 39p, will be offered for sale by public auction, by Mr Capstick, at his auction rooms, Tokomairiro, on Friday, the 10th day of May next, at noon, at the upset price of 10s per acre.

FRIDAY, 10th May.

NOTICE is hereby given that section 13, block III, Kaitangata District, containing 170a 3r; sections 1, 16 and 22, block IX, Akatore District, containing respectively 74a 0r 28p, 91a 3r 36p, and 54a; and sections 8 and 9, block 17, Waihola district, containing respectively 52a 2r, and 52a 2r, will be offered for sale by public auction, by Mr Capstick, at his auction rooms, Tokomairiro, on Friday, the 10th day of May next, at noon, at the upset price of 10s per acre.

FRIDAY, 10th May.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sale of the depasturing right over sections 21 and 31, block II, Otakia district, will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Friday, the 10th day of May next, at noon, at the upset rent of 6d per acre.

NOTICE is hereby given that sections 1 to 37, block IV, Benger District, recently withdrawn from Mr Clarke’s application, averaging from 40 to 60 acres each, will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Court-house, Roxburgh, on Friday, the 17th day of May next, at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following sections in the Township of Queenstown, will be exposed for sale by public auction, at the Survey Office, Queenstown, on Friday, the 17th day of May next, at noon. Those fronting Ballarat street and Frankton road at the upset price of £5 each, back sections £3 each.

Sections 6, block XXXI; 1 to 11, block XXXIII; 1 to 14, block XXXIII; 1 to 14, block XXXIV; 1 to 18, block XXXV; 1 to 14, block XXXVI; 1 to 10, block XXXVII; 1 to 19, block XXXVIII; 1 to 22, block XXXIX; 1 to 18, block XL; 1 to 23, block XLI; 1 to 13, block XLII; 1 to 12, block XLIII; 1 to 8, block XLIV; 1 to 14, block XLV; 1 to 11, block XLVI; 1 to 7, block XLVII; 1 to 6, block XLVIII; 1 to 9, block XLIX.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following sections in the Township of Greytown will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Friday, the 17th day of May, 1872, at noon, at the upset price of £3 each for back, and £5 for front sections.

Sections 1 to 40, block XIV; 1 to 18, block XV; 1 to 18, block XVI; 1 to 20, block XVII; 1 to 20, block XVIII; and 1 and 2, block XXI.

Immediately thereafter, section 59, block XXXII, Dunedin, will be offered at the upset price £12 10s.

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 1st day of May, 1872, at 12 o’clock noon, or before which day, objections to the survey, if any, must be made. In the event of the applications being granted, the purchase money may be paid forthwith.

James Hamilton and others, section 1, block VIII, Tuturau district.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 17th April, 1872.

IT IS HEREBY notified that the following-mentioned persons, having passed the prescribed examination, have been classified as Teachers in pursuance of the Education Board’s Regulations of February 29, 1872:

Mr David Fleming, Oamaru, Second Class Certificate;
Mr David White, Dunedin, Fourth Class;
Mr De Gennes Fraser, Dunedin, Fourth Class;
Miss Marian Ada Hookham, Oamaru;
Mr George Stephens, Kaitangata,

and that Mr Archibald Hislop, pupil teacher, East Taieri School, is authorised to hold the office of teacher in a temporarily subsidised or side school under a certificate of the fourth class.

JOHN SPARREY,
Secretary.
Education Office,
Dunedin, April 11, 1872.

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO.

THE SESSION for 1872, will be opened on Thursday, 1st May, with an introductory Lecture (open to the Public), by Professor Black, at 7 p.m.

On Friday and Saturday following, the Matriculation Examinations will be held, beginning at 10 a.m.

On Monday, 5th May, the different classes will be opened as follows:

Professor Sale: Greek and English, 8 a.m.
Do. Latin, 9 a.m.
Do. Greek, 10 a.m.
Do. Latin, 11 a.m.

Professor Shand: Mathematics, 4.30 p.m.
Do. Natural Philosophy, 5.30 p.m.

Professor Black: Chemistry and Mineralogy, 2 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.
Professor M’Gregor: Logic, 6.30 p.m.
Do. Moral Philosophy, 7.30 p.m.

Further information, and tickets for the classes, may be obtained on application to

A. LIVINGSTON,
Registrar.

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO.
Richardson Scholarship.

THE Competition for the Richardson Scholarship will take place in the first week of May.

The subjects for examination, with the marks showing the relative value attached to each, are the following:

English, 100; Arithmetic, 150; Geometry, Euclid, Books I and II, 100; Algebra, 100; Latin, 100.