THE NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1903, Page 5

THE NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

PARTICULARS OF CONDITIONS ATTACHED. Tho conditions- In connection with th« first examination for the Junior National Scholarships provide, in addition to those already stated, that a scholarship cannot be awarded to or held by say person if* the total net profits, income, and emolu-. ments of his parents are equivalent for any year during' the currency of tha scholarship to an annual income of over £250 per annum. The examination is to be in the subjects of the fifth standard, and is open, to persons of either 6ex who are ntifc over fourteen years of age on 31st December, 1903 j have been under regular instruction at a publio school or schools in New Zealand ipr the three years ending December, 1903 ; have for tho last six months been under regular instruction in. the subjects of the fifth standard or a higher standard at & public school in the education district to which the schoi&rship is allotted, and are certified, by the teachvr of tho school last mentioned as being eligible for and having a reasonable chance of obtaining a scholarship. Where candidates axe obliged to travel to places of examination, refund will btt made to them of actual fares by rail, coach, or steamer at second-class rates. The holder of a scholarship is requited to prosecute his studies diligently at aa approved secondary school. He is to receive, in addition to the amount of th* tuition fees (if any) payable at the secondary school, the sum of £10 per annum-; and if obliged to live away from home in order to prosecute hi 9 studies he will rcceivo an additional sum of £30 per an* num. r The term , of a scholarship is to ba three years. The Education Board, may, wit-n tho approval of the Minister of Kdii* cation, extend the term 6f any* scholarship by ono year. A scholar* will forfeit his scholarship if ho fails to pass at the end of the second year of the scholarship 6uch examination as may be presented, unless ht produces proof to tho satisfaction of the Board that the failure was occasioned by illness or other sufficient cause. In each education district in which two or more scholarships are offered, at least one scholarship will be awarded to jl enndidato from schools having » yearly average attendance of not more than forty ; and in any district In which three or more scholarships are- otfewd, at least ono « ill be awarded to a candidate from- , schools having a yearly average of more than 40, but not-^nore than 200; p'rovklod in each case that thero are qualiDed candidates from such .schools. Not more than ono scholarship will bo awarded ro tho cwidiilates from any ono school. The number of scholar ships allotted to each district is as follows: — Auckland, 6 ; North Canterbury alid Otago, 4 e»ch ; Wellington, 3 i Wanganui, Hawkes Ba^ 1 nnd Southland. 2 os*h j Tawinaki, Marlborough, Nolfon, Grey, Westland, and South Canterbury, 1 each. Senior National Scholarships will, when the timo arrives, be offered forcotnpetition nmongst persons who bavo- heejfc holders of Junior National Scholarship^ or of Education Board Scholarships, and are under nineteen years of ago.

The following additional fixtures ft*! Supremo Court civil cases were made today by the Chief Justice: — 7th in*t., Commissioner of Taxes v. the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, Bth inst., Hooper v. Ritchie, Collier v. Collier, Ramsey v. Ramsey, Te Ptmi v. Tifteni ; 9th inst., Cross v. Chess, Mansfield r. Hoar, Smith v. Commissioner of Crown Lands; 10th inst%, Nathan v. Anderson nnd another; 11th inst, Public Trustee v. Kells and another, Equitable Building Company v. Warburton and another i 12th inst., Hutehen and another v. Wilkiii; 14th inst., Rudder v. M'Guire; 15th inst. , Maxwell v. Equitable Building Society, Carter v. Commissioner of Stamps ; 16th inst. , Compton and another v. Preaton i 17th inst^ Ames v, Wilson.

At the Old-ago Pensions Court this morning, Dr. A. M'Aithnr, S.M., ordered a woman to rofund £8 of her pension money. It appeared that in 1899 she was granted a pension whilst owning property worth £100. Nest year she showed that she had no property. Tho present system of investigation adopted by tho Department disclosed th.it tho pensioner tiannforred the property in question to her son in 1900, and had received a certain sum from him in payment of the valuo. This made her pension larger than •he was entitled to — hence the reduction. Tho quantity of gold entered for oxport from New Zealand for tho eleven months of tho present year totalled 449,4080z, of the valuo of £1,715,106, as comparod with 398,3620z, of the valuo of £1,528,501 in the concaponding period of last year.