PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

Evening Star, Issue 3691, 21 December 1874, Page 3

PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

Tbe examination for Provincial Scholarships and for pupil teachers was commenced to-day. For the former there are sixty-nine competitors, while last year there were only thirty (the large increase being, doubtless due to the localising of the place of examination, candidates having hitherto had to compete in Dunedin, while now they can be examined under appointed supervisors in the district in wh'eh they re-ide); and for the latter seventy. Six scholarships are offered—one for boys and one for girs attending the grammar schools in the Province; one for hoys and cne for girls attending the high schools, and one for boys and one for girls attending the district schools—and each one of tbe valne of L3O and tenable at tbe High School For the girls’ High School Scholarship there are eight, and for the boys’ do five competitors ; for the Gram mar Schools—four girls and five boys; and for the Distric:, Schools—hoys and girls, forty-seven. Anyone obtaining a satisfactoy percentage, although unsuccessful in getting a scholarship may obta : n free education at a Rich, grammar, or approved district school. Today the candidates were examined in English grammar, .«Igebra, and arithmetic; to-mor-row tbe subjects will be geography dictation, essay, and Latin (for the boys), and French (for the girls), and geommetry (for district schools); on Wednesday reading and recitation and geommetry (for tbe Hiyh Schools). The various examinations, both for scholarships and pupil-teachers, are supervised t<y tbe fallowing gentlemen :—At Oamaru, by the Rev. Mr Gifford ; at Tokomairiro, by the Rev. Mr Coif y ; at the Taieri, by th n Rev. Mr Gilfica ; at Tnvercar. gill, by Mr Piyde ; at Queenstown, by Mr John Brown ; at the Clutha, tbe Rev. Mr Bannerman ; at Warepa, by the Rev. Mr Waters; atWaipori. by V-r Wilson; and at Dunedin (where there were eighteen boys and eighteen girls competing), by Mr Petrie, Mr Hislop. and Mr Mackay' (head master of the Port Chalmers Grammar School, and who is an ex officio examiner as president of the Schoolmasters’ Association).