PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 347, 28 December 1875, Page 2

PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

The following is tfce report of the Examiners, for ihe Provincial Scholflr.hjps : i- • T6 THS CHAIa^AW <JF THB CB?JTBA£, BoABD; ''of EnirciTrdKi-^ f ' \T*" Sir— We have examined the candidate* who presented them«elves for the Provincial and Governors' Scholarships. We cannot but call your attention to the superiority o< the country candidates 60 those from thp town We %ish most distinctly to acquit far as. we are concerned i, the town masters from any poseibte blame. The frequent change of masters is quite enough to account for any inferiority on the, part of the boys That they did fall btiow their for met average is most api arent. Ihe averase number of murks obtained by the t»wn boys (195) a« compared witli the average (317) gained by those from ihe country v Very striking. We agree in regretting exceedingly that we had not the disposal of four. instead of £wo ; Prd J vincial Scholarships.. Fleming, of Westport i and Myers, of Motueka, wire successful with j the best papers we have yet received in any i y«ar.' Bollard, of Motueka, and Feint, of I Richmond, are fully entitled to recognition, I though we confess that, guided by previous examinatians, we had made the papers much I "atifLr" than formerly. The Arithmetic paper, ia which ,tbe town candidates formerly excelled, was dona by many ot the country boys admirably. Only one of the town, candidates succeeded ia getting more than half marks, wliila three country boys ••floored" the paper, thatu, answered fully every question } one, Bullard with singular originality and elegance— -fo? there is the possibility of elegance and origina'itv even io arithmetic. We can only hone that ha may present himself next year. With the admirable teacher whom he is fortanate enough to have, and his own abilities, he can scarcely miss success. The singular evennes* of Feist's papers deserves special mention To use an examiner's phrase, he is r *' good all round man," who ahowa signa of the most careful teaching. - We were both struck by the want of •' form." Bad punctuation and bad epeSing, together with the confused way in which the answers were jumbled make it quite possible that we may not have done full justice td : the knowledge of some candidates. We beg to recommend that matters should accustom their pupils to answer examination papers with neatness and fulness; Knowledge is of little profit unless it' can be brought to the Sugars' ends. The most disheartening part of the examination wag the parsing and analysis of English sentences. Throughout |* was a failure. This seems a grave matter. Too much attention cannot ba bestowed on English. English History la aurely worthy the" best attention of evtry Englishman; but, with very few exceptions, so simple a question as' " By what eveut was Britain converged into England?" wa* answered by vagus references to 'Roman Governors," "St. Augustine," and "fair-haired boys in. the Roman alavcmarket." If any .single event, in English HUtory is of importance, it is the conquest and occupation of Britain by the English, which made it England. Ag»in t wieh one or two exceptions, no candidate seemed to know that Haroll was the lawful king of England, owing his kingship to exactly the, same authority as her . present Gracious , Majesty, namely that of the Gre»t GjubcU of the Nation. We venture to hope that the Central Board will bestow some mark of recognition upon . the more meritorious of the unsuccessful candidates, especially Bullard and Feisty We aopend a list. of the. candidates ic 'order of' merit, together, with the examination papers. We have the honrr to be, Sir, Your Obedient Servants, Fsakk C. Simmons 1 w :.-..:. W. C. Hodgson } Examspew.

The Cooktown Wterald relates that Daniel Conaell, a miner, cama into town recently and reported another addition to the loog Hat of atrocities committed by the blacks in Northern Qaeenaland. Thia time ifc is not merely a murder; but it is feared that the murder was followed by cannibalism. There can be little doubt but that the body of the poor fellow, James Flan- , aery, furnished the staple of a horrid banquet to the savages. Conn ell re-, ports that Flaunery, a packer by trade, was speared near Hell's Gates by the blacks on Tuesday, November 2, about 10 a.m. The blacks numbered about twenty. Connell was fastening the brestplate of one of the horses when Flannery sang out, 'Ob, Dan, the blacks.' Wbeo be saag oat. Connell went to Flannery and tried to draw oat the two spears with which he was pierced, but could not do so, so he broke them off, and said, 'Jimmy, run/ Flannery said, 'I can'i; tha spears are through me.' The blacks were coming up again, so Connell ran for his life for about a mile towards the Palmer, when he met a party of men. They came back, but could not find Flannery." One of the raodt interesting personages in the procession which will take place at Lucknow when the Prince of Wales is there will, it is said, be the identical state elephant that carried the Marquis of Hastings when he visited Lucknow as Governor a century ago.

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