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WANTED a Teacher for the Campbelltown (Bluff) Main School. Married man preferred. Salary, including Government grant, £175 per annum, with £25 additional, if wife will assist a portion of the day in school. Free house, containing five rooms. Applications, with testimonials, to be lodged with the undersigned, not later than the 31st March, 1874.

WALTER ANDERSON,
Secretary to Committee.

TO TEACHERS.—Wanted a competent Teacher for the side school at Welshman’s, Dunstan district. Salary £75 from Government, and £70 from the local committee. Applications, with testimonials, to be lodged as soon as possible, at the Education Office, Dunedin.

SCHOOLMISTRESS Wanted for the Balclutha School. To one qualified to teach music a preference will be given. Minimum salary, £80 per annum. Applications, with testimonials, to be lodged with the Chairman Balclutha School Committee, on or before March 20th, 1874.

ANGUS ROSS, Acting Secretary.

WANTED. a Schoolmaster for the Wallacetown School; salary, Government subsidy, and School fees, with 2½ acres of land, and free house containing five rooms. Applications with testimonials to be sent in to the Rev. A. Stevens, Chairman of School Committee, on or before the 20th May. One qualified to teach the classics and Higher Branches preferred. Must be able to enter upon his duties by the 29th June.

Wallacetown,
26th Feby., 1874.

EDUCATION RESERVES, SOUTHLAND.

APPLICATIONS will be received by Mr John H. Baker, Survey Office, Invercargill, from persons wishing to lease any of the Reserves as formerly advertised. Copies of the Otago Regulations, and conditions for the leasing of Education Reserves, can be obtained from Mr Baker, Invercargill.

SCHOLARSHIPS.

THERE are offered for Competition, to Students intending to study for the Ministry of the Presbyterian Church,

TWO Scholarships, tenable for three years, of the annual value of £25 and £15, respectively, to be competed for by students entering on their University course; and

ONE Scholarship, tenable for two years, of the annual value of £25, to be competed for by second year students.

The subjects of examination for the first two scholarships are — 1. Arithmetic. 2. English Grammar and Analysis. 3. Mathematics: Euclid, Book I. & English History: period between French Revolution and Accession of Queen Victoria. 5. Latin: De Amicitia. 6. Greek: Grammar. 7. Scripture Knowledge: Genesis and Acts.

The subjects for the last-mentioned scholarship are — 1. Mathematics: Euclid, Books I. and II. 2. Algebra up to Quadratics. 3. English History and Literature: period 1689—1727. 4. Roman History: first century. 5. Latin: Eneid Book VI. 6. Greek: Anabasis Book II. 7. Scripture Knowledge: Genesis and Acts.

The competition will take place in the Class-room of Knox Church, on the 29th and 30th April, at 10 a.m.

Intending competitors will please give early notice of their intention to E. B. Cargill, Esq., and also forward certificates of character from their respective ministers.

WANTED TEACHER (female) for Blackstone Hill Side School. Salary Government subsidy £60.

held in the School-house of each of the said districts, upon Monday, the 6th day of April, 1874, at eight o’clock p.m., for the purpose of electing a school committee for such district for the current year.

JOHN SPERREY, Secretary.

MANN WADE, Secretary.

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PENINSULA ROAD BOARD.—Tenders Wanted.

No. 1.—80 yards metal, main road, Tomahawk.
No. 2.—60 yards metal, main road, Tomahawk.
Above work to be shewn by Mr. Wm. Stuart, or Mr. Smaill, Tomahawk.

No. 3.—100 yards metal on portion of Road No. III. Highcliffe. Work will be shewn by Mr. R. Inglis, Highcliffe.

Tenders must be lodged with the undersigned, not later than Saturday, April 4, 1874.

Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

WILLIAM HAY, Clerk.
March 9th, 1874.
2t 7s

NORTH-EAST VALLEY ROAD DISTRICT.

TENDERS are invited for breaking and spreading 80 yards Road Metal (more or less). The stone can be seen at foot of old Port Road, North-east Valley, and tenders left at School House, North-east Valley on or before Saturday, the 28th March, at 2 p.m.

H. McFADYEN,
Clerk to Board.
3t 8s

TENDERS wanted by the Kaikorai Road Board for the following works —

Contract No. 1.—For supply of 100 yards of road metal on Breckville-road.
Contract No. 2.—To supply 150 yards road metal on Kaikorai Valley road contract.
Contract No. 3.—To supply 200 yards road metal on Abbotsford road.

Specifications to be seen and tenders left at the Kaikorai Hotel on or before 24th March.

JAMES THOMSON,
Clerk Kaikorai Road Board.

LEASE OF TOLLS.

THE Leases, for the Year from 1st April 1874 to 31st March 1875, of the various Tolls throughout the Province, will be sold by public auction, at the Provincial Government Buildings, on the 20th day of March, at noon.

The following are the different gates and the amounts received by the Government for the year ended 31st December last:—

Anderson’s Bay ... £795 18 7
Balclutha ... 586 7 0
Blueskin ... 778 10 1
Clutha and Tuapoka ... 859 8 10
East Taieri ... 682 13 0
Hillside ... 2,594 14 1
Pleasant Valley ... 679 12 11
Saddle Hill ... 1,786 18 3
Stoney Creek ... 405 12 6
Waikari ... 356 9 2
Waikouaiti ... 736 2 11
Waihola ... 651 14 5
Water of Leith ... 1,657 6 9
West Taieri ... 702 0 5

£13,473 8 11

WASTE LAND BOARD ADVERTISEMENTS.

DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

MONDAY, 6th APRIL.

2000 ACRES Land open for application on Deferred Payments, Tuapeka West. Notice is hereby given, that Sections 1 to 42, Block XI., Tuapeka West District, Run 123, on both sides of the Road Lawrence to Tuapeka Mouth, will be open for application on Monday, the 6th April, 1874, at the District Land Office, Lawrence.

Applications must be accompanied by a deposit of 1s 3d per acre, being the first half year’s occupation fee. The Sections are 50 acres each.