HOLIDAYS.—The Provincial Government Offices

will not be opened on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd January, 1874.

Dunedin, 30th Dec., 1873.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Under-Secretary.

JOHN LOGAN,
Secretary to Superintendent.

29th December, 1873.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Public Works Office (Provincial),
30th December, 1873.

IT IS hereby notified that from and after the 1st January, 1874, all deposits with tenders for public works must be by marked cheques, and the Government will not be responsible for any cash that may be enclosed.

HORACE BASTINGS,
Secretary for Works.

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 1st 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 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 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.

William MeNickle
Michael Whelan
Benjamin Hart

ABSTRACTS FROM PREVIOUS GAZETTES

Impounding Notices

Impounding Notices—Tuesday, at noon; a filly will be sold at Balclutha Pound.

TENDERS

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works, until noon of Tuesday, 13th Jan., 1874, for:

Contract No. 849.—Formation of 63 chains of road Glenomaru to Catlin’s River, commencing near Pollock’s mill and extending up the Omaru stream.

Plans and Specifications may be seen and forms of tender obtained at the office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at Post-office, Port Molyneux.

Tenders to be indorsed “Tender for Contract No. 849.”
The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.

HORACE BASTINGS,
Secretary for Works.

Dunedin, 22nd December, 1873.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secretary for Works until noon of Tuesday, 13th Jan., 1874, for:

1. Contract No. 850.—Formation and gravelling portion of road Mataura Bridge to Toitois, commencing 30 chains north of Dowall’s mill, and extending towards Wyndham, 207 chains.

2. Contract No. 851.—Formation and gravelling 40 chains of road Mataura Bridge to Toitois, between the township of Wyndham and bridge.

3. Contract No. 852.—Construction and gravelling 25 chains of road Clutha to Mataura, situate near Williamsons, about two miles north of Mataura Bridge.

4. Contract No. 856.—Gravelling 140 chains of road Mataura Bridge to Toitois, commencing at the Mataura Bridge township and extending towards Wyndham.

Plans and specifications may be seen and forms of tender obtained at the Office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at Police Camp, Mataura Bridge.