POST OFFICE NOTICES.

The next mails for the United Kingdom via Brindisi and Southampton will close at Ash burton on the nth of March. The mail via Brindisi will be due in London on the s*h °f May, and that via Southampton on the 12th of May. . The next mail for the United Kingdom via San Francisco will close on the 27th March, and will be due in London on May 13. W. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster.

NOTICE

A travelling Post Office having been estab lished on the Southern line of railway, letters bearing a late fee of 2d. may be posted at any station in the mail carriage attached to the express train, and they will be included in the mails made up in transit for offices on the main line and branches.

Sydney J. Dick, Chief Postmaster.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

BIRTH.

Sando. —On March Bth, at her residence, Wakanui Road, Ashburton, the wife of K. Sando, of a son. 499

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the “Evening Echo”). SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1879.

Farewell Services.—We would re mind our readers that the Rev. W. B. Marten will preach his farewell sermon to-morrow evening in the Cameron-street Church.

Runaway.— Yesterday another horse bolted, talcing a buggy with it, but injur ing no one. The horse and buggy were Mr. Cookson’s and were in use by Dr. Ross, who was visiting a patient at the Old Men’s Home. The animal was left, in charge of one of the inmates, from whose care it bolted down the road, making for the town. It was brought up at the Bank by the capsizing of the buggy, the axle of which was broken. The horse was unhurt. Our M.H.R.—We understand Mr. Wason will take an early opportunity of addressing his constituents.

The Autumn Handicap.—ln another column we give the weights for the Autumn Handicap, as declared to-day. The Nelson Meeting. —The highest for the Champion Rifle Bolt at present is Ballinger, two points over Paynter.

Secular Education. —Mr. Goldie avoii his seat for Auckland City West on the secular ticket. Mr. Acton Adams Avon Nelson on the same ticket, and has sent the folloAving telegram to Mr. , Goldie : —. “March 6, 1879. D. Goldie,* M.H.R., Auckland. Congratulate you as a brother in-arms for the national secular education. Acton Adams.”

Sibree, accused of the murder of Cos tello at Westport some years ago, Avas discharged from custody yesterday at the request of the police, as the evidence they held Avas not sufficent to Avarrant de tention.

The English Wool Market. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company received the following cablegram yesterday from their London office, dated March 3 :—Wool —Competition is decreas ing, and quotations are on an average Id to Id loAvei than at the opening. The principal decline has been in cross-bred. Seedy and burry wools are neglected.

- Coursing.—At the. Acclimatisation Society meeting yesterday at Oarnaru, it was resolved to ask Government to open the Coursing season on 10th April, instead of the Ist of May.

The Timaru Breakwater.—Tenders are to be called for at once for the com pletion of the Timaru breakAvater.

From Invercargill to the Holy Land.—Mrs. . Wallace and four of her sons very oldsettlers inlnvercargill hav e left for Palestine. They understand from communications received from friends there that both land and labor are much cheaper in the Holy Land than they are in this Colony.

Sad to Think op it. —An American paper says: “What Avith England sending us her Fenians, France her Communists, and German her Socialists, the United States • will soon come to be regarded as a convenient and cheap penal settlement by all the European Powers. ”

A fund has been begun at the London Mansion House erected a suitable monu ment to the memory of the late Earl Russell.

The Distress.—The Mayer of Manches ter received £11,500 for the relief fund. About 6,500 persons are receiving relief.

Wine From Oranges.—The first Avine made from oranges in Spain has just appeared on the market of Valcenia. I’our sorts have been produced, one of Avhich is sparkling Avine. They are all of agreeable flavour, an attractive colour, and of fair strength. Cheap Land.—An American paper states that 300,000 acres of Avhite timber and mineral land in Western Victoria Avere sold in Ncav York the other day in large lots for about one cent, an acre — probably the cheapest sale of land on record.

A Newspaper for Burmah. The kingdom of Burmali is at last to have a paper. The king himself is to be the chief editor and proprietor, and the royal penman threatens with the penalty- of death all his subjects who will not sub scribe to his paper. The method is certainly novel in the way of “ working up” circulation.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

A public meeting was held last night.iri the Town Hall, in connection with the British and Foreign Bible Society. There; was not a j large attendance, and The clergymen present were ; only Messrs • Marten and Westbrooke, apologies having, been received from "'the 'others. Mr. ■ Fooks occupied the chair, and the meet ing having been opened with prayer, and praise, the Rev. J. F. Evans, agent for the Society, addressed the meeting. , He said he left England some 14 months ago, and he had travelled through the Austra lian Colonies lecturing for the Society. The British and Foreign Bible Society had been seventy-five years in existence. When it commenced operations there were’only 4,000,000 Bibles in the world, and only 3,000,000 in circulation. In one district of Wales, with a population of a thousand people there was only one Weigh Bible accessible to the people, and the result was there was great ignorance of elementary Bible truth, and a state of semi-heathenism. There were also when the Society began 18 prisons in Wales, and all well filled, while Sunday was a day of immorality. When the Bible was printed in Welsh, people longed to read it and a moral reformation followed its cir culation. There were now only six prisons, three of which were empty, and the Sun day; was observed by all. Wales was the birth place of the Society, and that part of Britain contributed to its funds £7571. This amount represented the free contri bution for the last year of only 800,000 people, hut it was £3OOO more than all Australasia. In all Wales there was not one single sceptical book in circulation. The speaker cited instances in which endeavours to sell translations of these had failed. What the Bible, he urged, had done for Wales, it had done for many other places, and could do for all. In England and her Colonies alone, 45,000, 000 cheap Bibles had been circulated during the 75 years. It was a grand test of:the Church’s life, the way it sought to evangelise others, and the success and continued efforts of the Bible Society were a proof of the religious life of England. The Society had its agents everywhere now, and it held as a principle that it was every Christian’s duty to give the revela tion of God to man to every soul. 95,000 copies of the Bible had been sold at the Paris Exhibition, and nearly a million had last year been circulated in France. Just before the Russian war the Bible was sent printed in 31 dialects to Bes sarabia for distribution among the soldiers, and 25000 had been circulated among the soldiers of Russia and Turkeysince the decla ration of war, and almost as many more could have been disposed of. The Bible had been translated into 301 languages, and it had often been the pioneer of civilisation. To the success of the Society’s work, such men as Sir Bartle Frere and Lord Lawrence bore testimony. To print the Bible in vernacular was one of the missionary’s first objects. The Church of England preached in 60 languages, printed in 53, and got Bibles 'printed in 49 from the Society. The Wesleyan preached in 30, and got their Bibles from the Society ; so did the Presbyterians and others. Mr. Evans concludedbyaskinghelp for the Society’s work, and suggested the organisation of a hand of lady collectors to raise money in this district iii aid of ' the Society’s cause. A deputation, lie said, would come'round every' year to give an account of the Society’s operations in general, and he urged the friends of the Bible to make an effort to get a good meeting for next year. At the close of the rev. gentleman’s address <Mr. • Fooks was requested to act as Secretary for the Ashburton Bi'anch of the Canterbury Auxiliary Bible Society, and Mr. Fooks kindly accepted the position. Sankey’s hymns Avere sung during the evening by the Choir Union, and the proceedings Avere brought to a close by a vote of thanks to the chairman.

CHISPA’S LETTER.

“ I am not yet so bald that 'you can see my brains. ” —Longfelloav.

Things haven’t been moving with me so sweetly of late. But, I do not attach so very great importan'ce to my own affairs as to condescend on particulars of my troubles, when I see that the whole world just now is up to the neck in trials. The old country looks to my old eyes like going to pot. Nothing doing at all, and nothing to do, which is rvorse. We have been standing here in Ashburton, as a rooster does on an odorous eminence in his barn yard, crowing defiantly to all creation for the last twelve months and more. Our little cake of a town shot ahead somewhat, and we fancied that very soon, if things went on as they were going we’d have Sir John Goode up to survey the river with a view to making the Ash burton a grand highway of commerce ; and nobodyappearedtohave any idea of the limit of Ashburton’s future greatness. Editorial gush Avas poured forth about it ; auc tioneer, mayoral, civic, and after-dinner eloquence had only one theme—the toAvn of the future, Hope rose high ; so did sections. Every body built—and quite right too. Boarding-houses of the highest class rose before our eyes almost as Jonah’s gourd did—in a night; and they all got filled. Prosperity rose round about us like a tide, up to our very breeches pockets, and Ave were so full of ourselves that A\ r o never thought of anybody else. So Avhen that Scotch Bank Avent under, and trade collapsed at Home, and many thousands of our felloAV countrymen in our fatherland met a ghoul in their path in the shape of an empty cupboard and a cold hearth, ate our Christmas dinners, and sung our joyous carols in the next thing to ignorance of the extent of the trouble that had come upon the land that gave us birth. The prospect of a bad harvest on the Plains hung more heavily upon our hearts, because Ave lived upon those Plains, and every day Ave saw the “fiery sun and the sky of brass,” and heard the croak of the croakers ; and while sharpers Avho wanted to get cheap sections kept on about the bad harvest and the hard times opining, things didn ! t look so bright again ,' but after all wo are not so badly off as the gloomy prophets have made us out to be ; and though Ave did set a mighty value upon ourselves, and held up our heads higher than there Avas any use for, we are a sight further the good than many better lhehV-1 doubtinplfc, srq ip old England to-day. We are not yet awhile going to concentrate in Ashburton the “ glory that avrs Greece and the gran deur that AA r as Rome but Ave needn’t let all

Lbur pluck, get shifted about it.‘feofh' the breast of .our waistcoats down to the wide of our trousers ; need we ? John Grigg doesn’t seem ijo be .afraid of-the ' future—, he is going in for traction engines and things;; E. G. Wright doesn’t think, so, either ; he is going to have a new bridge over the river ; and the ; County Council arc,looking out in a general way tor get ting' water to} tlie Plains,' ; sO, that .we needn’t go under altogether,""''need we ? In view of all those signs oi the times, we may as well pull our belts in another hole, and shove ahead. There’s a good, time coming. '

Progress is the word ! That £SOOO has lain.in Mr. Shury’s coffers for months, laughing at the people in whose interest it was handed over to the safe keeping of the banker.. But it looks now as if the term of its time of ease and indolence was drawing near, and that a troop of pick and shovel men will give it a lift by-and-by. How we humbugged about over that £SOOO ! Well, we are going to get at it now, and the getting it will mean a plen tiful supply of pure water when the last note has been paid v

What has come over the Police Court ? I don’t know what’s up, unless it be that the “ tightness” of many of the chaps who used to trot up of a morning and do their bow to the magistrate has transferred it self to the money market. His Worship the Mayor used to have two or three every morning to put through, but now he seems, to have got a spell. Or is it that because Sergeant Felton has been 1 down for a time that “drunks” have been allowed to swing along unhonored by police attention ? Well, I am always willing to think for the best, so I conclude the town has got on its best behaviour for a time.

Just after I have shaken hands with myself in the above paragraph over the apparent good behaviour of Father Felton’s pets, that Bible Society man comes and takes off the poetry. Last night while he was speaking in .the Town Hall, a “ drunk ” entered, dropped on his knees, thinking the Rev. Evans was - leading the prayers of a devotional meeting. The length of the “ prayer ” was too much for the inebriated one, and he rose from his attitude of veneration with a growl of dis gust and veered,” his hob-nails performing a very disagreeable stage whisper on the unmatted floor of the Town Hall. How and again curious ones looked in at the proceedings, and, learning their nature, hurriedly—but not silently—absq uatulated The übiquitous paper-runner entered the lobby at intervals and howled out the name of the sheet he traded in ; and ali o getlier the. conviction forced itself upon the rev. mind of Mr. Evans that he had discovered a fair field for missionary enterprise in the town of the future. He related his experience, and it was not flattering to Ashburton. Wherever he had yet been he had been treated with common civility by the outside public when he addressed a meeting, and police men had usually been present to guard his audiences and himself from annoyance of the kind he complained of, and which I have been above. Yerily, the manners of Ashburton want refining some !

How are the subscriptions for the Kai tangata sufferers rising ? Haven’t, heard anything about these since the Council spoke on the matter. Hadn’t some chap, with an hour or two of his own, better collar a subscription sheet or two, and trot round ? There’s plenty of. foolish half crowns knocking about that would be more useful near the pit mouth than where they are dropped now. Why don’t the Racing Committee appoint themselves paymasters in this business. They’ll want a guinea or two on their own hook soon, and they might just practice for a time on the Kaitangata charity. If they trotted out as : representatives of the good and charitable at this heat,' they might find their kind action would enable them to win in a canter when they come to beat up for racing sovs.

There’s a horse I know has a hole in its leg. I didn’t see that hole made, but I have a suspicion that it was done with the iron-shod toe of a boot, and I fancy I know who wears that boot ! I refer to this, matter with the intention of giving a tip—viz., that the Cruelty to Animals Act is a very salt law upon the breakers of it, and anybody can prosecute under it. So may Chispa.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Cable.] London, March. 5.

Wheat Id. higher. Prince Tewfik, hereditary prince has been appointed President of the Council of Ministers, and- Nubar, ..Minister for Foreign Affairs in Egypt. March 6.

President Hayes has vetoed the Bill passed by Congress respecting Chinese im migration. There is excitement in Greece regard ing the rectification of the frontier pro vided under the Berlin Treaty. A band of Greeks destroyed a village in Thessaly, killing many persons. Russia may in consequence, delay the evacuation of Turkey. Sir M. Hicks-Beach, in a despatch, re peats the opinion that the dismissals of the Victorian Civil Servants on Black. Wednessday were not temporary, as re ported by Sir G. Bowen, he having signed the order ifor their permanent removal. Had Sir G. Bowen acted with that view when he asked Ministers to partially re trace their steps, probably the financial difficulty would have been overcome with out resource to a measure involving grave objections.

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, March 7. In the match against Lord Harris’ team, the Englishmen. made, 248 in their first innings. , -The ,Victofians.;have six wickets down for 112. '* " *'

Sydney March 5.

The Chinese Immigration Bill, imposing a capitation tax of £lO, has passed its second reading in the Assembly by 31 to 9. It will, meet with . stronger opposition in Committee. ' A i * V March 7. Hennessy’s brandy, 335. 6d. ; quarters, 9s. 3d.; kerosene, Diamond and Devoe’s,

Is. Bd. to Is. Sid. ; Patna rice, £26 ; Adelaide flour, £l2 to £l3 ; wheat, 4s. Cd. to ss. ; Raven’s twist tobacco, Is. 7d.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Saturday. Steamship Company purpose spending £ISOO on the Pretty Jane, and to run her between Onehunga and Wanganui, calling at intermediate ports. Also to purchase a new steamer from England at a cost of £7OOO, for the East or West Coast trade. Judge Johnstone is holding a Court at the Thames to determine the claims of Natives to the Thames foreshore, before handing it as an endowment to the Harbor Board. Tapara and Nikoranga lay claims. The Bay of Islands Electoral Commis sioner proceeds to Wliangaroa on Tuesday to take evidence.

Wellington, Saturday. The “ Uncle Tom’s” benefit last night realised about £65 for the Kaitangata fund.

Invercargill, Friday.

The Racing Club was formed last night. The opening meeting will be held on the two days following the Volunteer De monstration at Easter.

The Kaitangata fund is growing in pro portions.

The Glasgow Bank Fund has closed and a good sum will be forwarded. Blenheim, Saturday. The coroner’s inquest into the cause of the late fire terminated last night in the following verdict :—“That the buildings known as Wall’s Buildings were destroyed by fire, which arose at the back part of the premises occupied by Mr. Jensen, but how it originated there is no evidence to show. ” •

SPORTING.

[by telegraph.]

THE AUTUMN HANDICAP. ’ Christchurch, Saturday. The following weights have been de clared for the Autumn Handicap :

WANGANUI RACES.

Wanganui, Saturday,

The acceptances and general entries for the Wanganui Races up to date are as follows :

First Day.

Weight for-Age Hurdles—Loch-Lomond, Greymouse, Wairau, Awahou, Rangatira, Victor.

■ Derby of 100 Sovs.—Satanella, Plevna, Lady Ellen, Forest Queen. Sapling Stakes—Cheshire Lass, Marie Stuart, Midge, Tidal Wave, Serna, Slan der Colt.

Wanganui Stakes, of 100 sovs., weight for age—Merlin, Mufti,. Pinfire, Resolu tion, Expectation, Rata. Ladies’ Purse —Greymouse, . Bribery, Merlin, Gladstone, Slander Colt, Rata, Expectation. Flying Handicap, 50 sovs.—Lady Ellen, Otawa, Peep o’ Day, Confident, Expecta tion, Parawhenui, Venus Transit. Second Day. Handicap Hurdles—Greymouse, Loch Lomond, Wairau, Gazelle, Rangatira, Victor, War Eagle. Railway Plate—Bribery, Marie Stuart, Merlin, Midge, Confident, Expectation, Slander Colt.

Jockey Club Handicap, of 300 sovs.— Pinfire, Bribery, Lady Ellen, Otawa, Resolution, Peep o’ Day, Expectation, Venus Transit, Rata. Selling Race—Folly, Ahauri, Confident, Tidal Wave, Stanley, Hardy Commis sioner.

Maiden Plate—Satanella, Midge, Port Wine, Forest Queen.

30 entries have been received for the Wanganui Derby of 1880. The races are expected to be a great success.

THE NELSON RIFLE MEETING.

Rifle Camp, Brightwater. Saturday. The ranges 200 and 400 in Match 9 are completed and other two are progress ing. Of those who stood first twelve for the Rifle Belt, a computation, including these two ranges, places—l, W. Ballinger, 154; 2, Paynter, 152; 3, Purnell, 151; 4, Coventry, 151 ; 5, Crossman, 150; 6, Skinner, 149 ; 7, Smith, 149 ; 8, Hutchin son, . 148 ; 9, Keiler, 146 ; 10, Christie, 146; 11, Marshall, 145; 12, Kennedy, 143. Ranges 200 and 300 in Match 10, are also completed, and of those who stood in the first twelve, their respective places now are ; 1, Mapp, 146 ; 2, Coleman, 146 ; 3, Judge, 143; 4, Gordon, 142; 5, Thomas, 142; 6, Armstrong, 140; 7, Borden, 140; 8, Harris, 139; 9, Barr, 138; 10, Laird, 135; 11, Mclntosh, Napier, 135; 12, Cropp, 131.

THE “GENTLEMEN” OF THE TURF.

(From the Timaru Herald.)

We are sorry to be obliged to admit that the late race meeting at Dunedin is not calculated to raise the character of the New Zealand turf. Fair racing, for the pleasure of seeing highly-trained thorough bred horses run at their utmost speed, really enters very little into these sports, which are rapidly degenerating into a degrading species of gambling swindle. What with handicaps, and sweepstakes, and professional bookmakers, the mere running is altogether a minor considera tion, and the real business of the races is to arrange matters beforehand so that a large sum of money may be made by the knowing ones. Luckily, these people are such utter-scoundrels that they have not that sorry apology for honour which is said to exist among thieves. They cheat each other as readily as they cheat the

public,, and the best of them neither believe what their “ pais” tell them, nor are themselves believed. But for this all pervading trickery and distrust among the sporting fraternity, as these blacklegs are called, there would never be any honest racing at all,- but the public would go to races merely to watch a number of horses placed in order which would enable “ the talent” to score most heavily. It is griev ous to see such a noble animal as a race horse made the instrument of a worthless biped in every respect his moral and physical inferior. There was certainly some excellent racing at Dunedin last week, but it was entirely the result of the bookmakers’ plans being upset by unfore seen circumstances. The scratching of Titania is said by racing men to have been justifiable according to their code, though the common opinion is that either the code must be a very shady one, or else the public must be very credulous and long suffering.. At all events, if Titania was not intended to win, it was better to scratch her than to run her only to be c roped, jostled, or humbugged in some way on the course. That was an ingenious accident, by-the-bye, of the jockey catch ing his spur in the bridle of the horse that was pressing him ; and considering how tightly the Jockey Club shut their eyes to all sorts of rascality of a much worse character, we must say. their sentence was a very harsh one. It might be worth try ing for jockey clubs to confine themselves to making the arragements for. the races, and to establish a rule that swindling, roping, and jockeying of every kind would be allowed; because then the public would have fair warning, and a good deal of amusement would be created by watching the clever devices of owners of racehorses to outwit each other. If that were done, too, perhaps gentlemen - would take to racing again, arid would get up meetings entirely of horses whose owners are above suspicion—bookmakers, welchers, et hoc genus omne, being rigidly excluded from the course;

Saturday, March 8, 18/9.]

TI IE ASHBURTON HERALD,



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Clotting Establishment. ENCOURAGE NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIES. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE ASHBURTON DISTRICT. MESSRS. ALLENSTEIN RO S. Desire to inform you that a RETAIL BRANCH of the NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY, WILL BE OPENED IN THE NEW BRICK BUILDING, ASHBURTON, (Next Bullock & Co.’s Rooms) ON SATURDAY, Bth MARCH, To effectually introduce their Goods and drive out the imported article they have decided to sell a SINGLE GARMENT AT THE WHOLESALE PRICE. All goods are marked in plain figures, for net cash only. Any article purchased and not approved of will be exchanged with the same courtesy with which it was sold, or, if desired, the money will be returned. The Success which has attended the New Zealand Clothing Fac tory’s Retail Branches in Auck land, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and other towns, leads the Proprietors to believe that i there exists a praiseworthy desire on the part of the public to encourage New Zealand Indus tries, especially where superior advantages are offered, and your support is solicited on this understanding only. WILLIAM SPARROW, Manager 467 Ashburton Branch.



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Special Notice. Hooper, aitken and co. are prepared to make CASH ADVANCES OK GRAIN, OR OTHER PRODUCE Placed in their hands for sale in the Home Markets. *390



New Advertisements. PRIMITITIVE METHODIST CHURCH, Wills Street.— The Rev. B. J. Westbrook will preach TO MORROW—Morning and Evening. 491 ASHBURTON, GAS, COAL, AND COKE COMPANY (LIMITED). TENDERS are required for 40,000 good BRICKS at per thousand, to be delivered at the Company’s Works. Ten ders to be addressed to the Chairman not later than 12 o’clock on THURSDAY NEXT, the 13th inst. : : *' .. ; ••.. J. WARD, Ashburton, 'Secretary. March 7th, 1879. . 493 BIBLES, Prayers, and Church Services, Hymnals for various churches.—H. M. JONES, Stationer, Baring .Square. 473 b TENDERS. BUILDERS desirous of tendering for Additions to the Upper Ashburton Road Board Office are requested to send in sealed tenders duly endorsed, and addressed to the Chairman at Westerfield, on or before TUESDAY, March 18. The drawings and specifications may be seenat the office of the Architect, Ashburton. J. STANLEY BRUCE, C.E. Ashburton, March 10. 494 THE EDUCATION BOARD OF THE DISTRICT of NORTH CANTERBURY. SCHOLARSHIPS.



NOTICE is hereby given that Ten Scholar ships of the annual value of Forty Pounds each, and tenable for two years, will be awarded upon examination in the month of June next, as follows : _ . j (a) Two scholarships open ,to all children whose age does not exceed eleven years on the first day of Jjjne, 1878. (b) Two scholarships open to all whose age does not exceed twelve years on the first day of June, oy-j i (c) Two scholarships open to all whose age does not exceed thirteen .years on the first of June. > ? ' (d) Two scholarships open to all whose age does not exceed fourteen years on ' the first of June. And two scholarships to be applied to the three classes a, b, and c, accoiding to the respective merit of the candidates in those classes. ’ Candidates must enter their names by giving notice in their own handwriting to the Chair man of the Hoard on or before the tenth day of May next, in every case, stating the day and year of birth, and the school at which the candidate is receiving instruction. The Board will not publish the name of the school from which a candidate comes .without the consent of [the principal teacher of the school, which may be sent with the notice of entry. ; Any candidate not attending school must give his or her addi'ess. The Board reserves the right of acquiring proof as to age. The examinations will be held at Christ church, beginning on the fourth day pf June for classes (a), (b), and (c), and on the eleventh day of June lor class (d). Necessary expenses for travelling, and of board and lodging, will be defrayed by the Board. . ; > The subj-cts in which candidates in classes (a), (b), and (c) will be examined aie the fol lowing Reading, writing, spelling, arithme tic, English grammar and composition, geo graphy, and British history. ' . . - - The subjects for class (d) are as follows r 1 Arithmetic, English grammar and composition (including spelling), physical and political geo graphy, and history (ancient and modem), geometry, and algebra. A scholarship will not be awarded to any candidate who has not obtained 25 per. cent, of the possible number of marks in each; subject, and 50 per cent, of the possible total. •' “The successful competitor for such scholar ship shall receive the amount of his ? or her scholarship only so long as he or she shall con tinue his or her education at any school or educational institution under the control of the Board at which the higher branches of educa tion are taught, but, if there be no such school or institution in the district where the holder of the scholarship resides, then at such school, subject to inspection by a public School Inspec tor, as the Board may .approve of.” [The Education Act, 1877, section 51, sub-section. 1 J. V. COLBORNE-VEEL, Christchurch, Secretary. March 3rd, 1879. 49a TO LET, TWO Fotir-roomed. Brick COTTAGES in Cox-street. Apply to / W. R. BOYLE, 498 Moore-street.