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2. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure of Nelson College for the Year ending the 31st December, 1888. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. 511 17 6. By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 394 16 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 1,070 7 10! ManagementSchool fees .. .. .. .. 873 4 4 Salary .. .. .. .. 200 0 0 Boarding-school fees.. .. .. 1,125 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. 45 19 1 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 37 6 4 Other expenses of management .. 6 0 0 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 192 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,371 3 0 Boarding-school account .. .. 907 6 6 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 20 0 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 302 10 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 12 10 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 161 6 10 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 55 19 10 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 122 19 7 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 127 5 2 Audit charges .. .. .. 8 6 0 Telephones .. .. .. .. 6 10 0 Subscription to sports .. .. 22 0 0 Law costs .. .. .. .. 37 111 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 14 2 1 I Total .. .. ..£3,815 16 0; Total .. .. ..£3,815 16 0 Oswald Cubtis, Secretary. [Auditor's certificate attached to accounts as kept in college books.] , 3. Statement of Receipts and Bxpendituee of Nelson College for Giels for the Year ending the 31st December, 1888. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 123 10 11 By Management— Grant from vote of the General Assembly 300 0 0 Salary .. .. .. .. 100 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. 138 12 8 Other office expenses .. .. 25 0 0 Boarding school fees .. .. .. 525 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,121 9 5 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,358 18 10 Boarding-school account .. .. 653 10 10 Edger scholarship .. .. .. 30 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 21 0 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 0 12 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 100 0 0 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 148 5 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 79 3 2 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 46 14 1 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 9 7 0 Insurance and taxes .. .. .. 74 10 2 Interest on mortgages .. .. 337 16 0 Audit charges .. .. .. 5 5 0 Law costs .. .. .. .. 30 0 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 21 3 9 £2,624 19 5 £2,624 19 5 Oswald Cuetis, Secretary. [Auditor's certificate attached to accounts as kept in the college books.] 4. Woek op Highest and Lowest Classes. College. Highest. —Latin : Cicero, De Senectute; Virgil, Aen. Lib. IV.; Grammar, Composition, unseen translation. Xenophon. Greek History. English: Hamlet; Coriolanus (two acts); Composition and General Literature. French: La Jeune Siberienne, Grammar, Composition, &c. Mathematics: Algebra to the Binomial Theorem; Euclid, 1.-VI.; Trigonometry to the end of Triangles; Statics and Dynamics (Todhunter and Grosse), Hydrostatics (H. Smith). Science : Deschanel's Sound and Light; Black's Chemistry for the Goldfields. ' Lowest. —Latin: Principia, Part i. to Ex. xxviii. English : English Grammar, Bain; Kenilworth; English History, Tudor Period. Geography: Europe, Political. French: Ahn's First French Course. Mathematics : Arithmetic (Hamblin Smith); Euclid 1., 35 propositions; Algebra, Simple Equations. Girls' College. Highest. —Mathematics: Arithmetic, the subject generally; Algebra, to permutations and combinations ; Euclid, Books, 111., IV., and VI., easy riders; Trigonometry to solution of Triangles. Latin: Horace, Odes, Books 111. and IV.; Cicero, Pro Sestio; prose and grammar; sight translation. French : Paul et Virginie, Le Joueur, Le Grondeur (work set by the University for 1888); prose; grammar; literature of sixteenth century. German: Schiller's Maria Stuart, Acts IV. and V., and some of Schiller's poems; Otto's German grammar. English: Morris's Elementary Historical English Grammar; History of Literature of Queen Anne's reign; Life and Works of Charles Lamb, with special study of Essays of Elia; Life and Minor Works of W. M. Thackeray; Shakespeare's Henry IV. (Parts I. and II.), and Henry V.; Essays on various subjects, literary and other. English History : From William 111. to American War of Independence, briefly; thence to accession of Victoria, more fully. Geography: Australia, India, England and her foreign possessions in Asia and Europe. Science : Elementary chemistry. Class-singing. (N.B. —Owing to the