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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 183, 18 April 1878, Page 3

NOTICE. " A i: LL ACCOUNTS DUE to the ______ undersigned UNPAID on the 25th instant, will be SUED for without further notice. H. WAGSTAFF. ' April 15, 1878. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, LE BON'S BAY. THE EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY of this Church will be celebrated by a PUBLIC TEA MEETING, To be held on GOOD FRIDAY. Tea at 5 p.m. Tickets, Is 6d each ; children, Is. After tea, a PUBLIC MEETING will be held in the Church, when addresses will be delivered by Christian friends. ? Divine Service will be held in the Church on Good Friday, at 11 a.m. The Anniversary Sermons will be preached on the following Sunday at 11 a.m. and G. 30 p.m. Divine Service at Akaroa on Sunday, at 11 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. rpENDERS are invited for RENTJL ING that portion of LAND known as THE FORKS, situated in Aylmer's Valley, Akaroa. Tenderers to state rent per annum, payable quarterly. Tenders to be sent in to the undersigned, on or before Wednesday, the 23rd instant. The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. C. W. BRIDGE. ■"%-ft-k UNION STEAMSHIP COMWarn: pany of new Zealand (LIMITED). THE above Company's Steamers will Run asf ollows, calling at AKAROA: — FOR LYTTELTON AND THE NORTH. S.S. WANAKA April 22 FOR DUNEDIN. S.S. MAORI April 22 Passengers must be booked before going on board. For freight or passage, apply WOOD BROS., Agents. THE BOARD OF THE EDUCATION DISTRICT OF CANTERBURY. SCHOLARSHIPS. **X*J"OTICE is hereby given, that Ten _I_N Scholarships of tho annual value of Forty Pounds each, and tenable for two years, will be awarded upon examination in the month of June next as follows :— (a) Two scholarships open to all children whose age does not exceed eleven years on the first day of June, 1878. (b) Two scholarships open to all whose age does not exceed twelve years on the first of June. (c) Two scholarships open to all whose age does not exceed thirteen years on the fust 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 thre. classes a, b, and c, according to the respective merit of the candidates in those classes. Candidates must enter their names by giving notice in their own hand writing to the Chairman of the Board 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 conseni 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 address. The Board reserves the right of requiring proof as to age. The examinations will be held at Christchurch, beginrffg on the fifth day of June for classes (a), (b), and (c), and on the twelth day of June for class (d). Necessary expenses of travelling, and of board aiid lodging, will be defrayed by the Board. Tho subjects in which candidates in classes (a), (b), and (c), will be examined are the following:—Reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, English grammar and composition, geography, and British and Sacred history. The subjects for class (a) are as follows :—Arithmetic, English grammar and composition (including spelling), physical and political geography, and history (sacred, ancient, and modern), geometry, and algebra. A scholarship will not be awarded to any candidate who has not obtained 25 per cent of the possible number of mark. in each subject, and 50 per cent of the possible total. " The successful competitor for any such schoir.ship shall receive the amount of his or her scholarship only so long as he or she shall continue his or her education at any school or educational institution under tho control of the Board at which the higher branches of education 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 Inspector, as tne Board may approve of." [The Education Act, 1877, section 51, sub-section.] . WM. JAS. HABENS, Secretary. Christchurch, March 15,1878.