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The Government does not bind itself to accept any offer.

G. TURNBULL,
Provincial Secretary.

TO SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SCHOOL TEACHERS.

THE following Resolutions of the Education Board are published for the information of School Committees and School Teachers. By order,

JOHN SPERREY,
Secretary.

1. The salary due to any teacher who may have resigned and left his appointment in any school will not be paid to him unless he produce to the Secretary of the Board a certificate from the Chairman or Clerk of the Committee of such school, to the effect that the said teacher has, up to the date of his leaving, properly made all the entries in his School Register and account of School Fees which are requisite for the correct filling up of the Annual Returns of the school, and that such registers and account have been handed over to the said Chairman or Clerk.

2. The Clerks of School Committees are hereby enjoined to intimate to the Secretary of the Board without any delay the date on which any teacher may cease to perform his school duty, and also the date on which any teacher hereafter appointed may enter on the performance of duty; otherwise there may be difficulty in obtaining payment of salary.

PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.—The following Regulations of the Education Board respecting Provincial Scholarships are published for general information. School teachers are requested to forward to me, before the 10th January, 1874, a list containing the names and ages of intending competitors belonging to their several schools.

By order of the Education Board,

JOHN SPERREY,
Secretary.

REGULATIONS.

1. Two Scholarships in connection with the Boys’ High School, and two in connection with the Girls’ High School, shall be open for competition on the 20th of January, 1874, to boys and girls respectively who shall have attended the public schools of Otago for at least one quarter during the current year (1873). One of the boys’ and one of the girls’ Scholarships shall be bestowed on a boy and a girl respectively from the High Schools or the Grammar Schools. The other two Scholarships shall be conferred on a boy and a girl respectively from the ordinary District Schools. Competitors must be under sixteen 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 Boys’ or Girls’ High School, but not longer than three years. The Education Board may extend the period of tenure in the case of any Provincial Scholar who may have given highly satisfactory evidence of diligence and progress in study.

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

I. English Grammar, including Analysis of Sentences.

II. Geography.—The Elements of Mathematical and Physical Geography; the chief Physical Features, Political Divisions, and Principal Towns of Europe and Australasia; the drawing from memory of an outline Map of a country in Europe or a colony in Australasia, to be named by the Examiners.

III. British History.—The Tudor Period, 1485—1603; and the Reign of Queen Victoria.

IV. Arithmetic.—Simple and compound Rules. Practice, Simple and Compound Proportion, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, Interest, Discount, Profit and Loss, Extraction of the Square Root, Square Measure and Duodecimals.

V. Algebra.—For Common School competitors, the Four Elementary Rules; for High and Grammar School competitors, as far as Simple Equations, inclusive.

VI. Euclid.—For Common School competitors, Book I, prop. 1—15; for High and Grammar School competitors, the whole of Book I.

VII. Writing from Dictation.

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

IX. A short Essay on some familiar subject to be named by the Examiners.

X. Penmanship, as shown by the competitors’ papers under subjects VII, VIII, and IX. Preference will be given to a plain round hand.

XI. Latin.—(High and Grammar School Boys), Grammar and Accidence; translation into English of a passage in Latin.

XII. French.—(High and Grammar School Girls), Grammar; translation into English of a passage from a French author.

XIII. Marks will be given for the reading of Prose and Poetry, and for Recitation from memory.

4. It shall not be necessary to award a scholarship to the best, or any other candidate, unless he or she shall have gained, in the aggregate, at least 70 per cent. of the 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 shall receive free education at the High School and a payment of £30 per annum.

6. Free education for terms of not less than two years nor more than four years may, at the discretion of the Board, be granted to the unsuccessful competitors for Scholarships who shall have gained a satisfactory percentage of the whole number of marks attainable; such Free Scholars may attend the High School, a Grammar School, or an approved Main District School, at their option.

7. Certificates of Merit will be granted to those competitors who, though failing to gain Scholarships, distinguished themselves greatly.

8. Teachers must forward to the Secretary of the Education Board, before the 10th January, 1874, the names of intending competitors belonging to their respective schools, together with a certificate of the age of every such scholar.

INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS.

THE Otago Educational Board invites Applications for the office of Inspector of Schools. None need apply but University men of high standing and considerable experience in Education. Salary, £500 per annum, exclusive of travelling allowances.

Applications, with testimonials and references, are to be lodged with me before the 1st November, 1873.

JOHN SPERREY,
Secretary.

Education Office, Dunedin.

THE Provincial Government has resolved to offer for competition next December two Provincial Scholarships to Boys and two to Girls attending the Public Schools of Otago. The Scholarships will be tenable for three years. Further information will be furnished in a future advertisement.

JOHN SPERRY,
Secretary to Education Board.

Gold Fields Office,
Dunedin, 14th Oct., 1873.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Agricultural Lease issued in favor of Mr. James Leddy, for section 38, block XIX, Shotover, has been cancelled by the Government.

HORACE BASTINGS,
Secretary for Gold Fields.

Gold Fields Office,
Dunedin, 14th Oct., 1873.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Government have agreed to the surrender by the Scandinavian Water Race Company of four acres of section 3, block II, St. Bathans district, held under a Mining Lease. The land