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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4514, 8 September 1875, Page 2

Tasmanian papers to hand chronicle a youthful career in which industry and talent have already placed their possessor in an enviable position. A young gentleman from the “ tight little island," Mr. George Wilson Waterhouse, has succeeded in gaining, at the English University at which he now is, a scholarship, valued at.£so per annum, together with a special prize of £3 in hooks. There were only four .prizes given, and five, new scholarships. Three of these were for £3O, one for £SO, and one for £7O, so that Waterhouse, who is only' nineteen years of age, out of all the candidates, stood second on the whole list, Very gratifying to his friends, to Tasmanians generally, and especially to the masters of Horton College, Ross. Georg* Wilson Waterhouse has paid for his education by the number of colonial scholarships he has won. His school career holds out the most encouraging inducement for even the poorest lad to persevere. It is thus traced by the Tasmanian papers. He first became known to the Press by winning from the Central School an exhibition from public to superior schools, valued at a little more than £l4 per annum, and tenable for four years. He then went to Horton College, Ross, and two years afterwards came down and won the exhibition from public to superior schools, valued at - £2O per year, and tenable for four years.. Two years after he presented himself for the A. A. Degree, came out at the head of the list, and won the gold medal. He then passed the matriculation examination for the Melbourne University ; and afterwards he attained the highest distinction that it is in the power of his native land to bestow, by carrying off twin honors—the Tasmanian Scholarship, valued at £2OO per year, and tenable for four years at a English University ; and the Gilchrist Scholarship, valued at £IOO, and tenable for three years. It is not stated for how many years the present scholarship that young Waterhouse has won is tenable, but supposing .that ,it lasts for three years, we find, on adding up the amounts of the various scholarships, that he has won in the aggregate £1386.