The following list contains the names of the fifteen candidates who obtained highest marks in the competition for junior and senior scholarships (twelve of each are to be awarded) at the examinations held on the 19th, 20th, and 21st December last : Junior Scholarship. Marks. James E. Strachan, Kaikorai ... ... 459 Isabella Zella Pope, Waitepeka ... ... 436 William Hall Mackisack, High street ... 428 Mary Webb, Arthur street ... ... 427 John Reid, Tapanui ... ... ... 423 John Watson Shaw, High street ... ... 404 Annie Cox, Caversham ... ... ... 397 Mary Salmond, Girls' High School ... 389 John Nelson Michael, Arthur street ... 380 George Harold Mason, Naseby ... ... 378 Robert Charier Moore, George street ... 373 Oliver Duff, Dunrobin 373 Janet Lindsay, Maheno ... ... ... 366 Thomas D. Webster, Normal ... ... 365 Ellen Leslie, Normal ... ... ... 365 Senior Scholarships. Henry Havelock Barton, Boys' High School 769 Arthur B. Andrew, Boys' High School ... 609 Alice M. Budd, Normal 589 John Milne Adam, Tokomairiro ... ... 588 D. F. W. Aitche'son, Boys' High School ... 584 Martha Steven, Waitaki Girls' High School 582 J. G. Patteison, Boys' High School ... 545 T. G. Gilbert, Arthur street 533 G. H. Ussher. Kaikorai 525 O. Bowling, Boys' High School ... ... 525 R. J. Bowie, Tokomairiro ... ... 517 A. G. Johnston, Boys' High School ... 511 Jane Robertson, Ngapara ... .. 510 J. H. Southwick, Boys' High School ... 490 E. K. Hay, Arthur street 489 The doctor in charge of the South African leper colony oh Robben Island believes that he has discovered a cure for that dread disease. He is inoculating the victims for erysipelas, which, he says, invariably effects a local cure for leprosy. A "firebug," the leader of a gang of in cendiaries, has been sentenced in New York to forty-eight years' imprisonment. The gang, either for a fixed sum or a percentage on the insurance, undertook to set fire to house property in any part of America. " It's all very well," said the gravedigger, "to advise a young man to begin at the bottom, and work up, but in my business it ain't practicable."

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