NOTICE is hereby given, that sections 12 and 13, block III, Naseby, will be offered at the upset price of £5 each; section 14, block III, Naseby, at the upset price of £6 16s, at the Survey Office, Naseby, on Monday, the 14th day of March next, at noon, subject to valuation for improvements effected thereon.

NOTICE is hereby given that section 4, block I, Kurow District, containing 25a, will be offered by public auction at Mr Shrimski’s auction rooms, Oamaru, on Monday, the 14th day of April next at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre; and subject to survey expenses to the extent of £12 10s.

THE undermentioned Town Sections will be sold by auction at the Land Office, Invercargill, at noon on Monday, the 21st day of April proximo:—

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.
Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 12th March, 1873.

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS for UNSURVEYED LAND, under “Otago Waste Land Act 1872.”
It is hereby notified to the applicants whose names appear in the subjoined Schedule, that they have been declared to be the purchasers of the sections set opposite their names in the Schedule, and that the purchase money of these sections must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue in Invercargill, on or before Wednesday, the 26th day of March, 1873, otherwise the applications will be deemed withdrawn, cancelled, and void, and the deposit made at the time of lodging the application will be forfeited.

James Blackley, section 15, block III, Wyndham district.
Thomas Hicks, section 69, block VII, Tuturau district.
Alexander Cameron, sections 61, 62, 63, 64, block VI, Tuturau district.
Do., section 7, block VIII, Tuturau district.
James Waddell, sections 57, 58, 59, 60, and 65, block VI, Tutura district.
J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 12th March, 1873.

WARDENS, JACOB’S RIVER HUNDRED.
THE undermentioned owners or occupiers of land in the Jacob’s River Hundred were elected Warden for the current year on the 1st inst.:—

• MATTHEW FELLOWS,
• WILLIAM STRANGE,
• WILLIAM HARRIS,
• JAMES W. HAMILTON,
• THOMAS CLARK,
• JAMES J. BOX,
• HUGH CHRISTIE,
• WALTER H. PEARSON,

Commissioner, Crown Lands.
Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, March 4, 1873.

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO.
THE Third Session will be opened on 1st May, 1873.

Classes.

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.—I. Junior mathematics. II. Mathematics and natural philosophy. Professor: John Shand, M.A.

4. Mental and Moral Science.—Classes for logic and psychology, moral philosophy, political economy. Professor: D. M‘Gregor, 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; laboratory fee, £1.
The fee for each class is three guineas per session.

MATRICULATION.
The matriculation examinations for 1873 will be held at Dunedin on the 2nd and 3rd days of May.
The following are the subjects of examination:—

Latin.
Cicero—“De Amicitia.”
Greek.
Xenophon’s Anabasis, Book I.

English.
Writing and dictation.
French or German.
Translation from French or German into English; translation from English into French or German.

Arithmetic.
The compound rules, especially square and cubic measures; vulgar and decimal fractions; proportion; extraction of the square root.

Algebra.
Meaning of the Algebraical signs, the four elementary rules, simple equations.

Geometry.
Euclid, Book I.

Geography.
The chief physical features and principal towns of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America; together with more minute details of the geography of Great Britain and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

Candidates will be entitled to matriculate who shall have passed in Latin, English, and Arithmetic; and in any two at least of the other subjects of examination.

DEGREES.
The degree of B.A. will be attainable by attendance upon the prescribed lectures during three sessions, and passing an examination in certain subjects, either at the end of the third, or at the beginning of the fourth session after matriculation; or at the beginning or end of any subsequent session. There will be no honor examination in connection with the B.A. degree.

The degree of M.A. will be attainable only by those who have already taken the B.A. degree. The ordinary M.A. degree will be attainable by attendance on the prescribed lectures for at least one session after the taking of the B.A. degree, and by passing a further examination similar in kind to that required of candidates for the degree of B.A.; such examination to be held at the end of the session in which the lectures are attended.

Candidates for the M.A. degree with honors will be required to select one or more of the following subjects, and will be examined in such subject or subjects only:—

1. Classics.
2. Philosophy.
3. Pure and applied mathematics.
4. Natural science.

No candidate will be admitted to the degree of M.A., with honors, after the expiration of three academical years from the date of his B.A. degree, nor after the expiration of six years from the date of his matriculation.

LITERARY COURSE.
1st year.—Latin, Greek, Mathematics, *English.
2nd year.—Latin, Mathematics, Mental Science, Natural Science.