PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 242, 24 October 1873, Page 7

PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

The'following Regulations of the Edu- ." '• cation Board respecting Provincial JSclio- ,■' "Lirsliips arc published for general informa- , . .tion : —, ' . ... I. Two Scholarships in connection with the Boys' High School, and two iu con- -:•: neciion with the Girls' High School, shall be open for -competition on the 20th cf ■' January, 1874, to boys' and girls respectively who shall hare attended the public schools of Otago for at least one quarter during the current year (18/3). One of the boys'anch one of Ihe girls' Scholarships shall bo bestowed on" a boy and a girl respectively from the High Schools or the Grammar Schools.. Competitors must be under sixteen years' of age at the date of competition. 11. Ihe holders for the time being of the said Scholarships shall be called "Provincial Scholars," and shall bo entitled to ■ the privileges and advantages hereinafter specified; A scholarship shall be tenable | .•as long as the holder of it-remain's a pupil I ,- of the Boys'or Girls' High School, but not longer ihau three years." The Educa-tion-Board may extendi the period-of tenure in the case of-any Provincial Scholar who may have given highly satisfactory evidence of diligence and "progress in study. ' - T 111. The said Scholarships respectively shall be awarded to such candidates as shall have shown ihe greatest proficiency at Examination, to be held .atDuricdin on the chiy above specified; -such Competitive Examination shall be by written papers, and shall embrace the following subjects : - 1. English Grammar, including Analysis of Sentence?. 2. Geography. The Elements of Mathematical and ■ Physical . . Geography; the chief Physical Features, Political Divisions, aud Principal Towns of Europe" aud Australasia ; the .drawing from memory of an //outline Map of a country in Europe or a colony in Aus- •'• tralasia, to be named- by the Examiners. ■ 3. British History.—The Tudor /Period, 1455—1603 ;.and the . . Beign of Queen Victoria. 4-. Arithmetic.'-—Simple and compound Rules, Practice, Simple and Compound Proportion, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, ' Interests.Discount, Profit,and Loss, Extraction ofMKe Square ■ Boot, Squat e Measure and - Duodecimals. '" ' - 6. Algebra.—For Common School , competitors, the Four Elementary . B-ules ;- for .Grammar School competitors, as far as Simple Equations, •inclusive. - 6. Euckd. For Common? School " . competitors, Book-1, .prop. 1— 'ls; for High and Grammar School competitors, the whole ' of Boole I. ■ 7. Writing from Dictation. 8. A simple- Narrative, selected by the Examiners, to be ; read aloud to tho competitors and reproduced by them.. 9. A short.Essay on some familiar subject to be named by the Examiners.. 10.. Penmanship', as shown , by the competitors! papers under subjects 7 '8 and 9. Preference ; will.be given to a plain round •' • hand.

11. Latin.— (High and .Grammar School J3oys), Grammar' and Accidence; translation , into English of a'p&ssage in Latin. 12. French. - ! (U.igh and Grammar School Gif]:o, Grammar; translation into English of a passage from a French author. 13. Maries will he given for the rcad- ■ ing of Prose and Poetry, and for Itecifation from memory. TV. It shall not he necessary to award a scholarship to the host, or any other candidate, unless ho or she shall hare gained, in-the agrcgate, at least 70 per cent, of the'number of marks attainable ;- and the Board shall be at liberty to suspend or terminate any scholarship on account of wilful misconduct or liclccfc' of studies- on the part of holder.",., I V. Each holder of a Provincial Scholarreceive free education at the" High School and a payment of-£3O per annum. ••'■'" '• : -- ' Vl.' Free education for terms of not less, .tlianjtvvo years nor -m.ore than four years may, at the discretion,of the !Board, ,be granted, to the unsuccessful competitors. $■ for .'Scholarships who shall' ham. gained a satisfactory per centage- of ohe . whole .number of marks attainable; ,sijch Free -Scholars may_ .attend thor/lii'gh School, a (grammar-; School,',or"-an approved Main District School, at their op-, ■ lion./ ,(, ~ ~* , jr-y •", ; VIX. Certificates Merit j m\l ibe granted to those competitors "who, thoujgh

failing to gain Scholarships, distinguished themselves gs-eatly. ■ ~'' •'<"' Vln. Teachers must forward to the Secretary of ihe Education Board, before fciie -lOfcli January,-1874 the names, of intending competitors belonging to their respective schools,-together with a certificate of the age of every such scholar. .