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1881. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: THE CANTERBURY COLLEGE (PAPERS RELATING TO). [In Continuation of H.-1d, 1880.]

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

No. 1. Statement of Chairman of the Board of Governors. At the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College, held on the 11th July, 1881, the Chairman's statement of the progress made and the work done in the several departments during the year was read as follows: — This being the annual meeting of the Board, I propose to give a short statement showing the work done during the past twelve months. College. The number of matriculated students attending the classes last year was 42. The total number of students, matriculated and non-matriculated, attending lectures was 101. The number of students attending each lecture during the last term was as follows: Pass Latin (translation), 24; pass Latin (composition), 22 ; pass Greek (translation), 3 ; honours and pass Greek, 5 ; honours Latin (translation), 13; honours Latin (composition), 10; honours Greek (translation), 3 ; literature of first half of nineteenth century, 44 ; Marlowe, Greene, and Milton, 49; English language, 35; essay class, 17; Elizabethan literature, 20 ; philological lecture, 17 ; Elizabethan age, 28 ; history of first half of nineteenth century, 16 ; lower mathematics, 25 ; upper mathematics, 2 ; mechanics and hydrostatics, 15 ; advanced mathematics, 1; junior chemistry, 9; senior chemistry, 2 ; honours chemistry, 1; honours physics, 1; junior electricity, 10 ; senior sound and light, 3 ; cosmical physics, 2 ; laboratory practice, 9 ; junior geology, 2 ; senior geology, 3; teachers' geology, 1; junior botany, 5 ; junior zoology, 2 ; senior zoology, 1; honours zoology, 1; senior French, 8 ; junior French, 1 ; honours French, 2; German, 2. Three students, Miss Helen Connon, 8.A., Mr. W. H. Herbert, 8.A., and Mr. J. B. Thornton, 8.A., having entered at the last examination of the University of New Zealand for honours and for the degree of M.A., were all successful. Miss Connon obtained first-class honours in English and Latin ; Mr. Herbert obtained first-class honours in mathematics ; and he and Mr. Thornton obtained third-class honours in chemistry and experimental physics. Of the sixteen students in New Zealand who passed this year the final examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, nine belonged to this College. Their names are, Miss M. L. F. Edger, B. M. Connal, T. S. Foster, John Innes, B. K. S. Lawrence, Charles Chilton, J. B. Wilkinson, William Fidler, and Edwin Watkins. Of five senior scholarships given by the University of New Zealand on the results of the last examination, four were gained by the students of this College —namely, by Miss M. L. F. Edger, in English and French ; B. M. Connal, in English history, political economy, and Greek; J. B. Wilkinson, in history and political economy, chemistry, physical science, and geology; Charles Chilton, in English, physical science, and geology. All the other students of this College—namely, John Innes, T. S. Foster, and G. Watson—who competed at the last senior scholarship examination obtained "great credit" in the pass papers, and "satisfactory proficiency" in the special scholarship papers in one or more subjects. The examination in all the subjects, excepting botany and zoology, were conducted by examiners resident outside the colony.