PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS

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 no 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.

MUNICIPALITY OF CLYDE

NOTICE.—The assessment for the year 1873-4 has been allowed, and may be inspected at my office by parties interested between the hours of ten and four. All notices of appeal must be lodged at the Town Clerk's office within ten days from the date of this notice being published.

RICHARD POOLE, Town Clerk.
Town Clerk's Office,
Clyde, November 15th, 1873.

NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given to the ratepayers of the Outram Road District that the rates for the year ending 30th June, 1874, are now due, and payable to G. Crockett, at West Taieri Schoolhouse.

G. CROCKETT,
Collector.
22nd November, 1874.

NOTICE

NOTICE.—The Grey District Road Board hereby give notice that they have made a general rate of 1s in the £ on all rateable property within the district for the year 1873-4. Objections in writing must be sent to the undersigned on or before the 10th December, 1873, on which date a special meeting of the Board will be held at Riccarton, at 7 p.m., for the purpose of hearing and deciding on said objections.

WM. MACANDREW, Clerk.

NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership between the undersigned Walter Taylor and William Nott Gooday, as Barristers-at-Law, Solicitors and Conveyancers, at Lawrence, in the Province of Otago, has been this day dissolved by effluxion of time, and in future the business will be carried on by the said William Nott Gooday, who will pay and receive all debts owing from or to the said partnership in the regular course of business.

Witness our hands this 1st day of November, 1873—

WALTER TAYLOR.
WM. NOTT GOODAY.

Witness to the signatures of Walter Taylor and William Nott Gooday—

THOS. POPE,
Coach-driver, Lawrence.

RATEPAYERS NORTH-EAST VALLEY ROAD DISTRICT

RATEPAYERS of Pine Hill, Sowyers' Bay, Harrington, and West Harbour are hereby notified that on Saturday, the 22nd November, the Collector will attend at the North-east Valley schoolhouse from 12 till 1 p.m.; and all Rates unpaid on this date will be recovered as usual without further notice.

HUGH McFADYEN,
Clerk to Board.

NORTH-EAST VALLEY ROAD BOARD

NOTICE is hereby given that the above Board intend to form a road line on part sections 17, 19, North-east Valley, and part section 11, North Harbour and Blueskin; also another road line on part sections 51, 53, 55, block XI, North Harbour and Blueskin; said roads to be 60 links wide, and under the authority and powers vested in the Board, as per "Highway Boards Empowering Act," together with the "Lands Consolidation Act." The specifications and plans of the above roads can be seen by any person interested for 40 days from this date at the North-east Valley schoolhouse between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.; and any person affected by the above works are required to state their objections in writing, and forward to the Board within 40 days from this date; and the Board will meet to hear and decide upon objections (if any) on Saturday, the 10th day of January, 1874, at 2 o'clock p.m.

Dated at North-east Valley schoolhouse, this 19th day of November, 1873.

HUGH McFADYEN,
Clerk to Board.

SEASIDE ROAD DISTRICT

IT is hereby notified that it is intended to borrow £900 for improving the main road of said district. Ratepayers having objections to the above must send the same in writing to the clerk within thirty days from the date hereof.

ALLAN CAMERON,
Clerk to Board.

NOTICE to Matthew Dunlop

NOTICE to Matthew Dunlop, owner of section 65, block 4, Tutarau Hundred.—I desire the separating fence between sections 42 and 65 be made immediately.

ALLAN CAMERON,
Clerk to Board.

October 27, 1873.