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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 285, 10 April 1879, Page 3

■> WANTED KNOWN. ) rpHAT the Duplicate Shipment of ; X AMERICAN BOOKS "OUR , FIRST CENTURY " have .Arrived, 5 and will be furnished to subscribers on or about April 10, according to notice which appeared in these columns in previous issue. LANE & SHAW. THE LATEST ENGLISH NOVELTY. THE DISRAELI PUZZLE and AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS' HANDKERCHIEFS, at One Shilling each. ; GARWOOD & CO. F _ f AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD. 1 VpENDERS are invited for the fol'JL lowing works, viz.:— ! s 1. Forming and Benching about 20 Chains (more or less) of road leading from Mount Bossu towards Mr Archibald M'Phail's, Island Bay. 2. Widening and Forming Culverts on Wainui Main road, from Mr Coll M'Donald's property to Mr A. C. Knight's gate, near French Farm. 3. Putting in Culverts and Removing Slips on old Pigeon Bay road. 1 4. Cutting, Filling, and Metalling about 20 Chains (more or less) of the Main Ohristchurch and Akaroa road, ? Horse-shoe Bend. Specifications to be seen at the Road " Board Office, Duvauchelle's Bay. : • Tenders to be sent in by noon on ■ Saturday, the 12th ; instant> endorsed and addressed to the Chairman. The lowest or any tender not .neces- ■ sarily accepted. ; JOHN BARWIOK, Clerk to Board. Road Board Office, Duvauchelle's Bay, March 31, 1879 THE EDUCATION BOARD OF THE DISTRICT OF ' NORTH CANTERBURY. SCHOLARSHIPS. H* 'rOTICE is hereby' : given _I_N Scholarships ot the annual value of Forty Pounds each, and tenable for two years, will be awarded upon examin- ■ ation in the month of June next as fol- ■ 'lows :• — ; " i'■■ , ■■■• .' l '■■ '■■ ■\I ' - (a) Two scholarships u open to all ' children, whose age does not exceed eleven ' years on the first day of June, 1879. '■ (b) Two scholarships open to all whose age does not exceed twelve years on the first of June. ■•■■■■- (c) Two scholarships open to all whoso nga docs not exceed thirteen year's o.u. the first of J u:ic. (d) Two scholarships-' open to all ! r ' whose age does not exceed fourteen years on the first of June. • And two scholarships to ba applied to the three classes a, b, aud c, according to the respective s merit of the candidates in those cliisses. Candidates timst ent-pr their names ■ by giving notice iv their own handwriting to the Cliairmsm of the Board on or befpre the. tf-ntli day of May next, in every ense, 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 come* ! 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 address. The Board reserves the right of acquiring proof as to age. The examinations will be held at Christchurch, beginning on the fourth i day of June for classes (a), (b), and (c), anil on the eleventh day of June for class (d). Necessary expenses of travelling, and of board and Lodging, will be defrayed by the Board. The subjects inj which candidates in classes (a), (b), and (c) will be examined are the following i-frßeadjng, writing, spelling, arithmetic, Englibh grammar and compositiop, ; geography, ...and British histor} , . i The subjects for class (d) are as foJL. lows :—Arithmetic, English grammar and composition (including spelling), physical and political geography, and history (ancient and modern), geometry arid 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 tor any such scholarship shall receive the amount of his or her scholarship only so long as he orshe shall continue his or her education t at any schooLor educational mcc stitution under the control of the Board ' at which the higher branches cf 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 the Board may approve of." [The j Education Act, 1877, section 51, subl section.] • J. V. COLBORNE-VEEL, i Secretary. Christchurch, March 3, 1879.