TUESDAY, 19th May, at noon.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lately reclaimed land sections Nos. 1 to 7, block LII, Dunedin, containing upwards of 1 rood each, suitable for manufacturing purposes, and adjacent to the Railway Station, will be offered for sale, under special conditions, by public auction, by Mr. James Milne, at the Land Office, Dunedin, at noon on Tuesday, the 19th day of May, 1874. For terms and conditions apply at the office of the Secretary for Works on and after Monday, the 20th April, 1874.

HORACE BASTINGS,
Secretary for Works.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that the Commissioners appointed for that purpose under the Southland Waste Lands Act Amendment Act, 1873, have furnished to him the description of the boundaries of the land classified by them as Agricultural Land and as Pastoral Land, respectively, pursuant to the provision of the said Act; and that copies of such description have been deposited at the Land Office in Dunedin and at the Land Office, Invercargill, where the same may be inspected by the public at any time during office hours; and further that the said description of boundaries will be published in the Otago Provincial Government Gazette on Wednesday, the sixth day of May next, on and after which date the whole thereof will be open for sale, except such parts thereof as may be reserved.

JOHN LOGAN,
Secretary to Superintendent.
Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, April 16, 1874.

NOTICE is hereby Given, that the following sections of Rural Land will be open for application at the Land Office, Lawrence, on and after Monday, the 27th day of April next, at £1 per acre:—

TUESDAY, 12th May.

The undermentioned Town Sections at the Land Office, Invercargill, will be sold on Tuesday, the 12th day of May proximo:—

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO.

RICHARDSON SCHOLARSHIP.

The Competition for the Richardson Scholarship will take place on Friday, 1st May, 1874.
The subjects for examination, with the marks showing the relative value of each, are the following:—English, 150; Arithmetic, 150; Geometry, Euclid, Books I. and II., 100; Algebra, 100; Latin, Virgil’s Georgics and De Amicitia, 200; Greek, Anabasis, 100; General Geography and History of England, from the Revolution to the Accession of Queen Victoria, 100; Natural Science, 100.

Competitors must have attended for two years some Provincial School, and for one year the High School of Dunedin; are must not exceed 18.

The Scholarship is tenable for three years, and of the value of £30 per annum.

The names of competitors, with certificates of good conduct, must be sent to me on or before 30th April.

W. H. MANSFORD,
Registrar.

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO.

THE SESSION for 1874 will be opened on MONDAY, 4th of MAY, with an Introductory Address by Captain Hutton, Lecturer on Geology and Zoology, at 7.30 p.m.

The Matriculation Examination will be held on the 1st and 2nd of May, commencing at 10 a.m.

On Tuesday, the 5th, the different Classes will be opened as follows:—

Classes, English Language and Literature, PROFESSOR SALE, M.A.
Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, PROFESSOR SHAND, M.A.
Mental and Moral Philosophy and Political Economy, PROFESSOR MACGREGOR, M.A.
Chemistry and Mineralogy, PROFESSOR BLACK, M.A., D.Sc.
Geology and Palaeontology, CAPTAIN HUTTON, F.G.S.
Law, ROBERT STOUT, Esq., Barrister.

Further information may be obtained on application.

W. H. MANSFORD,
Registrar.

SPECIAL MEETING of the Education Board will be held at the Government Offices, on Wednesday, the 29th instant, at 3 o’clock.

By order.
J. SPERRY,
Secretary.
21st April, 1874.

WANTED, a TEACHER for Macraes Flat School. Salary, £150 per annum, with Good Residence and Garden.

Testimonials to be sent to the undersigned not later than the 27th inst.

ROBERT DONALDSON,
Clerk School Committee, Macraes.

WANTED, a Teacher for Green Island District School. Salary—Government subsidy, £100, and portion of School Fees, estimated to amount to nearly £100; a commodious house and glebe of ten acres. Applications, with testimonials, to be forwarded to the undersigned up to 10th May, 1874.

THOMAS KING,
Clerk to Green Island School Committee.

WANTED, a Schoolmaster for the Wallacetown School; salary, Government subsidy, and School fees; with 2½ acres of land, and free house containing five rooms.