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Otago Daily Times, Issue 294, 28 November 1862, Page 6

MELBOURNE, ADELAIDE, AND NEW ZEALAND STEAM SHIPPING- COMPANY. STISA.M TO MELBOURNE. imSm, ALDINGA, 500 tons, John M'Lean, Commander Will sail for Melbourne to-morrow, (Snturlay\ at 8 p.m. For f I'ciaht or p !Ssi!?e apply to ROYS S, MUD IH aud CO., Stafford-stroefc. The last steainer will leave the Jetty at 2 o'clock, to convey passengers on board. T\T (^'"!' 1'i' C^*~Ali laiias against the thips Mix.:* ±^H moral, Urania, and Emma Prescott, must le rendersd in duplicate at, the office of the undersi^wrd before two o'clock p.m. This Day, or they will not be recognised. A. G. FISHER, Commercial Chambers. Dunedin, Nov. 28,1852. NELSON COLLEGE. — The first Election~of Scholars will take place on Monday, the 29th Septomber, in the present year. Three Scholarships will be offered for competition one Foundation Scholarship of the annual value of £30, tenable for two years, to which all students at the College, wheresoever bom or resident, who shall not have attained the age of eighteen at the above date, are admissible; the Alfred Fell Scholarship, of the annual value of £20, tenable for two years, to which all boys under fifteen at the above date are admissible ; and one Foundation Scholarship of £10 for one year, to which students in the junior school only are admissible. The names of candidates, together with certificates of their age, must be sent in to the Principal at any time not later than the 22nd of September. Candidates must attend in person at the College, on Wednesday, the 24th of September, at 9#30, a.m., to be examined on that and the following days. Subjects of Examination. Candidates for the first Scholarship will be examined in Scripture History, Geography, Arithmetic and in writing English from Dictation: those wh® pass a satisfactory examination in those subjects wil be further examined in— 1. Latin and Greek Grammar. 2. Cicero, the Catiline Orations, 1., 11. 3. Xenophon's Anabasis, Book I. 4. Algebra, as far as Quadratic Equations 5. Euclid, Books 1., 111. 6. .Roman History to the end of the Punic wars 7. Greek History .to the end of the Persian wars 8. English History. 9. French Grammar, translation from English into French, and from French into English. Candidates for the second Scholarship will be examined in Scripture History, Geography, Arithmetic, writing English from Dictation, Latin Grammar, Jacob's Latin Reader, Eutropius, and English History. Candidates for the third Scholarship will be examined in Scripture History, Geography, writing English from Dictation, Latin Accidenoe, English History and Arithmetic. The Scholarships will be awarded to the three boy& ho do best in the three several examinations. On the Ist of May, 1863, five Scholarships will be offered for competition, viz., two Foundation Scholarships of £20 and £10 respectively, the Stafford Scholarship of .£2O, the Richmond Scholarship o £30, and the Newcome Scholarsliip of £30. Due no-. . tice of the terms on which they will be competed will be given Further particulars may be learned by app ing to the Principal, Nelson. College New Zealand, Nelson Jaael?tK.