PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2119, 19 February 1870, Page 2

PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

The award of the examiners was made known to-day at noon. Tho Superintendent presided ; but the attendance of tho public was not large. Among those present we noticed dir If. Howorth, M H.E., and Mr Strode, R.M. Mr Hawthorne, Rector of the High School, opened the proceedings by explaining that tho gentlemen appointed as examiners were Mr James Fulton, R.M., Mr John Hislop, Mr Park, and himself. Mr Park, as had already been stated in the papers, having been engaged in the tuition of one of the candidates, and, besides, having several pupils of his own who were candidates, did not think it desirable that he should take part in the examination, so it had been conducted by Mr Fulton, Mr Hislop, and himself. The examiners did not wish that the boys should be kept in suspense, and had worked during the last iwo or three days and nights, in order that the result of the competition might bo made known to day. They had not. however, gone through the papers hurriedly, but, on the contrary, had gdven them a very careful examination ; and the position of tho competitors, at all events so far as the three successful ones were concerned, was strictly accurate, and on revisal of the papers would not be altered in any appreciable degree. The total number of marks obtainable by High School boys was 1600, 1300 being for English papers—tho latter number also applying to common schoolboys, and 300 for Latin, French, and Euclid. The number of marks obtained by the competitors were ns follows High School ; Solomon, 1209; M'tndoc, 791 ;. Webb, 681; Little, 6156 ; Gillou, 639 ; Weston, 557. District schools : Low, Arrowtown, 918 ; M'Nicol, Blueskin, 797 ; Cohen, Middle District, 752; Chapman, do, 745; Farra, South District, 731 ; Kennedy, Green Island, 715 ; Howorth, South District, 679 ; Curie, North Dunedin, 656 ; Adam, Tokomairiro, and Montgomery, N.E. A'alley, 637 each ; Sinclair, Blucskin, 633 ; Hi-lop, East Taieri, 578 ; Aitken, Middle District, 575 ; Pram. East Taieri, 557 ; M'Gill, Tokomairiro, 493 ; Andrew Fiaser, Mormngton, 441; W. Fraser, do, 434; Mathcson, Tokomairiro, 409. Tho successful candidates were, therefore, High School, Solomon, and district schools, Low, Arrowtown, Ist ; M'Nicol, Blueskin, 2ml. Although the examination had necessarily been gone over very hurriedly indeed, on the whole the examination, and especially so far as a majority of the boys from district schools were concerned, was very satisHc did not know that he had ever seen better papers than those of five or six of the district school boys, and he wished he could say as much for the High School boys. With regard to tho latter, tho successful one had far outdistanced the others, and had given in very satisfactory papers indeed. Ho hoped that tho unsuccessful boys would not be disheartened, hut would again tryjfor the Scholarship. To those boys who had obtained fifty per cent, of the total marks obtainable, certificates of merit would shortly be issued by the Education Board. Mr J. S. Webb then stated that he had been requested to present the medals awarded by the Chamber of Commerce for arithmetic, dte. He had also to express the regret of the Chamber that owing to the non-arrival of the ship, they did not come to hand in time for the Christmas examination, as was intended. There was one gold medal, valued at a little over L 5, and two silver medals, valued at L2 10s each, to bo awarded according to the Rector’s suggestion. He himself had to offer a silver pen to the best writer at the next annual examination, and in doing so to express his conviction that it was cruel to turn out a boy from school without his being well advanced in the art of writing. The Rector, in acknowledging the gifts, observed that he hoped that the deficiency referred to by Mr Webb would be soon got over, and announced that tho competition for these prizes would take place in Juno next. Tho proceedings then terminated.