OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XVII. Dunedin: Wednesday, Dec. 24, 1878. No. 886.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

IN conformity to the 29th section of the "Gold Fields Act, 1866," and to the Regulations made under that Act and the Gold Fields Acts Amendment Acts of 1867, 1868, and 1869, for the granting of lease, for gold mining purposes, within the Province of Otago, it is hereby notified that it is intended to grant a lease for gold mining purposes of Crown Lands to the applicant specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections against granting such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing and lodged with the Warden at Queenstown, on or before the 2nd day of January, 1874.

Copy of the application made, and plans annexed, may be seen at the Warden’s Office at Queenstown.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this 23rd day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

Patrick Walsh, for six acres of land, more or less, as the same may be found after survey to be within the pegs and trenches of the applicants, situated at the mouth of the left-hand branch of the Upper Shotover River.

DISTRICT ROAD BOARDS.

NOTICE.—Many communications from the Government meant to District Road Boards having gone astray owing to the absence of information as to the proper address of the Clerks, it is requested that the various Boards will be good enough to furnish the Provincial Secretary and the Chief Postmaster, Dunedin, with an address which will be permanent, irrespective altogether of the annual change of officers of the Board.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Under Secretary,
Provincial Government Offices,
Dunedin, 8th Dec, 1873.

TIME EXTENDED.

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 15th April, 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 7th of April, 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 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 to 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., props 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.