DUNEDIN.
Thursday.
At a meeting of the Education Boa.d Professor Shand gave notice of his intention to move that the Board should establish 30 scholarships in connection with tb# High School, to be awarded by competition to candidates from the district . and the Grammar Schools under the control of the Board, to be of the yalue of £40 in case of boarders at schools and £12 in case of non-boarder*. The salary of the secretary to the Board was increased from £500 to £600 per annum. • ; During the month of February 139 births, 51 deaths, and 25 marriages were registered in Dunedin. The dredge New Era, built in Dunedin; for the Harbour Board at a cost of £7600, was launched yesterday. They were getting, it is said, this class of work 'done better and cheaper in Dunedin than if it had been imported. (fkom oub own co-respondents.)
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2544, 2 March 1877, Page 2
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