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111. Give a full description of any humorous character you have come across either in life or in imaginative literature. IV. 1. Spell the words dictated by the Supervisor. 2. Write and punctuate the passage dictated by the Supervisor.

Class D. —Exeecise in Dictation and Spelling. (Part of a Paper on English (3-rammar and Composition.) IV. 1. Words to spell: eleemosynary, quiescent, square-rigged, peaceable, hypochondria, assize, parricidal, stoically, lieutenant, quarantine, innuendo, minion, ebullition, paroxysm, dragonnade, jeopardy. 2. " It is a pathetic sight and a striking example of the complexity introduced into the emotions by a high state of civilization —the sight of a fashionably drest female in grief. From the sorrow of a Hottentot to that of a woman in large buckram sleeves, with several bracelets on each arm, an architectural bonnet, and delicate ribbon-strings—what a long series of gradations ! In the enlightened child of civilization the abandonment characteristic of grief is checked and varied in the subtlest manner, so as to present an interesting problem to the analytic mind. If, with a crushed heart and eyes half-blinded by the mist of tears, she were to walk with a too devious step through a door-place, she might crush her buckram sleeves too, and the deep consciousness of this possibility produces a composition of forces by which she takes a line that just clears the doorpost. Perceiving that the tears are hurrying fast, she unpins her strings and throws them languidly backward —a touching gesture, indicative, even in the deepest gloom, of the hope in future dry moments, when cap-strings will once more have a charm."— Geoege Eliot.

Class D. —Abithmetic. Time allowed: Three hours. 1. How many times can seventeen thousand and sixty-eight be subtracted from forty-seven million six thousand and ninety ; and what will be the remainder ? 2. Multiply 16a. 2r. 14p. lOsq.yd. by 37£. 3. If 16£ ft. be taken as the unit of measurement, what number will express the polar diameter of the earth, which is 7,899 miles ? 4. Find, by Practice, the value of 3 tons 12 cwt. 1 qr. 14 lb. at £2 16s. 3d. per cwt. 5. A rectangular section of land is half as long again as it is broad, and it contains 240 acres : find the expense of fencing it at 17s. 6d. per chain. 6. State and explain the rule for multiplying together two vulgar fractions. Simplify of -18*. 7. Multiply 36-856 by 227*, and divide the result by '412. 8. Find the value of £ of A of 10s. 6d. — 3375 of 4s. 2d. + 1-218 of 13s. 9d., and express it as the decimal of £2 2s. 3d. 9. Define proportion. What is meant by a third proportional to two numbers, and by a mean proportional between two numbers ? Give examples. 10. If lls. 3d. be paid for tho carriage of A cwt. for 420 miles, how far should i cwt. be carried for £4 10s. ? 11. The velocity acquired by a falling body is proportional to the square root of the height from which it has fallen, and it is 40 ft. per second when the body has fallen through 25 ft.: what will be the velocity when the body has fallen through 72 ft. ? 12. If 1 metre = 39 36 inches, 1 kilogramme = 21 lb., and 9° Fahrenheit = 5° Centigrade, and if the work of raising a pound one foot be called a foot-pound, and that of raising a kilogramme one metre be called a kilogram-metre, express 902 foot-pounds per degree Fahrenheit in kilogrammetres per degree Centigrade. 13. Explain the difference between simple and compound interest. Find the amount at compound interest of £625 in 2-g- years, at 8 per cent, per annum, the interest being payable half-yearly. 14. If oranges be bought at the rate of sixteen for a shilling, how many must be sold for a shilling to gain 60 per cent. ? '15. A person invests £11,900, partly in colonial 4| per cent, stock at 97|, and partly in Consols (3-per-cents) at par: if he holds twice as much British as colonial stock, find the income that he obtains from the whole investment.

Class D. —Geogeaphy. Time allowed : Three hours. 1. What are the principal causes which affect the climate of a place ? 2. Where do the trade-winds blow, and how are they caused? How do you account for land and sea breezes ? 3. Draw a map of both islands of New Zealand, showing their relative position and (approximately) their relative sizes. Mark the names of the capes and of the inlets,

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