ton, of Candidates from all parts of the Province. That for Probationers will last one day; that for Third Class Certificates two days. Supplementary examinations will be held, if requisite, at Turakina and Greytown, in the course of the year.

Candidates intending to offer themselves for examination, should forward their names at once to the Inspector of Schools.

THOS. A. BOWDEN, B.A.,
Inspector of Schools.

PROGRAMME OF EXAMINATIONS OF TEACHERS AND CANDIDATES FOR THE YEAR 1867.

Candidates for a Probationary Certificate will be required:—

1. To read with correctness, ease, and intelligence any passage in the first four lesson books.
2. To write a bold, free hand, and be able to set a copy in three hands.
3. To write from dictation, with correct spelling, any passage read slowly from the third book.
4. To be able to work with facility, neatness, and accuracy, sums in the four Simple and four Compound Rules, and in Proportion and Practice.
5. To classify the parts of Speech in any sentence, and know the elements of Etymology.
6. To be acquainted with the general outline of the great divisions of the Globe.

Candidates for a Third Class Certificate will be required:—

1. To read Prose and Poetry with ease and expression.
2. To write from dictation, in a neat free hand, with correct spelling and punctuation, any passage read from the lesson books of the Irish Board.
3. To work questions in Commercial Arithmetic, in Fractions, Vulgar and Decimal, and in Involution and Evolution, and to be acquainted with the Rules of Mental Arithmetic.

NOTE.—Females will not be required to work questions in fractions, or in Involution and Evolution.

4. To parse any sentence, and to give the roots, prefixes and affixes of the words.
5. To know the elements of Mathematical and Physical Geography, the outline, general configuration, and political divisions of New Zealand, and the general Geography of Europe and Australia.
6. To be acquainted with the principles of Book-keeping.
7. To be acquainted with the Mensuration of surfaces (Mensuration, pages 1 to 60).
8. To be familiar with the methods of Teaching, and the Regulations, Forms, and Registers in use in the Provincial Schools.

NOTES.—Book-keeping and Mensuration will not be required from females.

All questions proposed will be upon subjects contained in the series of books published by the Irish National Board of Education.

Third Class Certificates of grade A will be awarded to candidates only whose papers are perfectly satisfactory. Those of grades B and C to those whose papers, though imperfect, are yet considered to be meritorious.

Supreme Court Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Supreme Court will sit in Banco on Monday, the twenty-second day of October next, at the hour of eleven o’clock a.m., in the Supreme Court Buildings, Lambton-quay.

ROBERT R. STRANG,
Registrar.

Wellington, 18th October, 1866.

Crown Grant.

NOTICE.

Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, 17th Sept., 1866.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Crown Grant to the undermentioned person for the undermentioned Block of land in the Province of Wellington, has been sent to the Registry of Deeds Office, Wellington, to be issued to the person authorised to receive it.

A. J. DICKEY,
Chief Clerk.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand—Middle District.

In the matter of the Petition of JAMES BAIN, of Wellington, Mariner, in the Colony of New Zealand, a bankrupt;

And

In the matter of the Debtor and Creditors Act, 1862, and the Debtors and Creditors Act Amendment Act, 1865.

NOTICE is hereby given that the said James Bain did on the 21st August last, present his Petition praying for the sequestration of his estate for the benefit of all his creditors and for relief according to the provisions of the said Acts, and that the said Petition has been accepted by His Honor Mr. Justice John-