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Auckland Gikls' High School. Highest. —Sallust, Bradley's Arnold, Latin prose ; Chardenal's Exercises, Breymann's Grammar ; Tiark's German Grammar, Marie Stuart, Maid of Orleans, Tiark's Composition Exercises; Morris's History of Grammar, analysis, composition, History of Laitguage, Henry V. ; English History—l6BB to 1820; Eoman History (Smith). Euclid, 1.-III.; quadratics, surds, indices; trigonometry (H. Smith's to Ex. 38) ; arithmetic. Physics Primer, to page 88; Health in the House, to page 116. Drawing, sewing, drilling. Lowest. —French —Pronunciation, imperfect and future of avoir, plurals of nouns, agreement of adjectives; Eoyal Eeader No. IV. ; parsing of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs; history, from Eoyal Eeader No. IV. (Eoman period to Eichardll). Arithmetic to division by factors. Geography —Physical features of North and South America and Europe, with principal towns ; object-lessons; Berner's Laws of Health, to page 22 ; drawing; sewing. Thames High School. Highest. —Horace, Sallust; Moliere, French composition; precis and English composition. Euclid to Book IV.; binomial theorem ; arithmetic. Inorganic chemistry ; physical geography. Lowest. —French reading and easy conversations ; English composition (Chambers) ; Outlines of History. Simple and compound rules. Geography—Europe, England, and New Zealand. New Plymouth High School. Highest.— Cassar and Principia; Ann's French Course, Fables ; .Morell's Grammar and Analysis; English composition; Lady of the Lake. English history—Conquest to present time. Euclid, to Book IV.; quadratics ; arithmetic. Geography —World in outline, Australia and New Zealand in detail, and physical geography of continents. Lowest. —Principia, 1., 25 ; Ann's First French Course, 1-70 ; Morell's Orthography and Etymology, with exercises and composition; History—William I. to Anne in outline. Algebra for Beginners, 1-10 ; four simple rules of arithmetic, and vulgar and decimal fractions. Geography—World in outline, Australia arid New Zealand in particular. Writing; elementary drawing ; drill. Wanganui Endowed School. Highest. —Xenophon, Homer, Sophocles; Horace, Sallust, &c.; Moliere; English history, grammar, and literature. Euclid, to Book IV.; algebra; trigonometry; mechanics; hydrostatics; arithmetic. Geography. Lowest.— Elementary English grammar, history, geography, arithmetic. Wellington College. Highest. —As for junior scholarship examinations—Latin, mathematics, French, history, geography, English. Greek —Two boys read Initia, and one reads Xenophon, Homer, Euripides. Elementary mechanics and heat. Lowest. —Elementary Latin; commercial arithmetic; elementary English, geography, and history. Wellington Giiils' High School. Highest. —Latin —Virgil (iEneid, I. and II.), Principia, Smith's Smaller Grammar, Bennett's Exercises; Tel&maque, Merlet's Grammar; Smith and Hall's English Grammar, composition; English literature—As You Like It, II Penseroso, Stopford Brooke's Primer; Green's Short History. Euclid, I. and II.; quadratics ; arithmetic. Geography ; physiology. Loivest. —Eoyal Eeader No. IV., parts of speech, Chambers's Historical Eeader, 11. Simple rules and easy compound rules. Geography—Physical features of Europe and Asia. Writing; drawing. Napiee Boys' High School. Highest. —Caesar, Sallust; Merchant of Venice ; English and Eoman History. Euclid, I. and II.; quadratics. Chemistry—Tests for metals ; geography—physical; drawing. Lowest. —Third-Standard work, with declensions of Latin nouns, and Principia. Napiee Girls' High School. Highest. —Principia, to passive verbs; French grammar (irregular verbs), and translation; English—parsing, analysis, history of language ; Merchant of Venice; history—William I. to Henry 11. Euclid, 1., xx.; algebra—fractions and simple equations; arithmetic. Physiology; physics ; harmony ; geography ; drawing. Lowest. —French—easy sentences, words, verbs avoir and Hire ; English—easy parsing; history —William I. to John. Simple rules and compound addition and subtraction. Geography— England, Europe, shape of the earth, atmosphere. Object-lessons; drawing. Nelson College. Highest. —The subjects for the New Zealand B.A. examination in Latin, Greek, English, history, political economy, &c, and mathematics pure and mixed, exclusive of differential calculus and higher subjects. Lowest. —Government Sixth-Standard work, with the addition of a little Latin. Nelson College fob Giels. Highest. —Portions of Virgil and Horace treated fully, also of Livy and other authors read at sight, and Latin prose; Public School French Grammar, Lamartine's Christophe Colomb (1., II.), Erckmann-Chatrian's Madame Th6rese; Macmillan's First German Course, Otto's Grammar,