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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 1st of April, 1874, the names of intending competitors belonging to their respective schools, together with a certificate of the age of every such scholar.

AUCTIONEERS.—A meeting will be held in the Government Offices, Dunedin, on Thursday, 25th December, at noon, to consider the following applications for Auctioneers’ Licenses for 1874:—

Capstick, Richard Watell, Tokomairiro.

Driver, Henry, Dunedin.

Fleming, Neil, Oamaru.

Grigor, Robert, Balclutha.

Inder, Walter, Naseby.

Shrimski, Samuel Edward, Oamaru.

Spedding, Donald McKenzie, Dunedin.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

Under Section 7, of Regulation IV.:

WHEREAS I have received sufficient proof that the portion of the Otago Gold Field, described in the Schedule hereto, is for the whole or greater part of an inferior character as regards the value of its gold deposits: Now, therefore, I hereby give notice that the same may be occupied by holders of Miners’ Rights in claims of the undermentioned size:—

One (1) acre for each holder of a Miners’ Right, provided that no block claim shall comprise more than six (6) acres altogether.

Given under my hand at Naseby, this 28th November, 1873.

H. W. ROBINSON,
Warden.

SCHEDULE.

All that portion of the Otago Gold Field situate at Surprise Gully, Hogburn, bounded on the north by Crown Lands, 45 yards; on the south by Reed & Party’s Claim, 45 yards; on the east by Crown Lands, 90 yards, and on the west by Surprise Company’s Head Race, 90 yards.

THE following revised list of Private Surveyors, authorised by the Board of Examiners, is published for general information:—

Robert Gillies, Dunedin.

George Hately, Invercargill.

Douglas W. C. England, Dunedin.

John Aitken Connell, Dunedin.

Robert Grigor, Balclutha.

George Frederick Richardson, Mataura.

Charles Barnes Shanks, Dunedin.

Norman Prentice, Dunedin.

George Morrison Barr, Dunedin.

Edward Campbell, Dunedin.

James E. F. Coyle, Dunedin.

John Strauchon, Mataura.

Edgeworth R. Ussher, Dunedin.

David Grant, Dunedin.

Henry Connell, Oamaru.

John Hay, Invercargill.

Donald A. Macleod, Dunedin.

Thomas Maben, Mataura.

John Duncan McArthur, Invercargill.

William Stewart, Dunedin.

Edwin Tanner, Dunedin.

William D. B. Murray, Dunedin.

JAMES MCKERROW,
Chief Surveyor.

Survey Department,
Dunedin, 8th December, 1873.

ABSTRACTS FROM PREVIOUS GAZETTES of Impounding Notices:—

19th December, Friday, noon, 4 heifers, a cow, and a steer will be sold at Lovel’s Flat Pound.

19th December, Friday, noon, a horse will be sold at Macraes Pound.

19th December, Friday, noon, 2 heifers and a steer will be sold at South Dunedin Pound.

THE following Tenders have been Accepted:—

Contract No. 762—W. Morton—£279 4s.

Contract No. 766—James Motton—£234 15s.

Contract No. 767—D. and T. McRae—£879 15s.

Contract No. 768—M. Hay—£288.

Contract No. 776—W. Morton—£485 18s.

Contract No. 818—Peter Gunn—£2216 4s.

Contract No. 824—D. McIntyre—£187 15s.

Contract No. 825—Nelson & Hewitson—£728 18s 1d.

Contract No. 826—D. McIntyre—£400.

HORACE BASTINGS,
Secretary for Works.

Dunedin, 9th Dec., 1873.

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works, until noon of Tuesday, 16th Dec., 1873, for

Contract No. 480.—Construction of 57 chains of road, between Shag Valley and Waihemo.

Plans and specifications may be seen and forms of tender obtained at the office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at Police Camp, Palmerston.