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different arrangement of classes according to different subjects, the same girls did not necessarily do quite all the above work). Loiuest. —Arithmetic: Simple and compound rules, vulgar fractions (partially). Latin: Principia Latina, Part I. to the verbs. French : Bue's First French Course to lesson 40; easy translation into English from reading-book (Contes de Fees). English : Hall's Primary English Grammar; simple parsing and analysis; reading, spelling and composition, and writing. English History: From Henry VII. to William 111. (Louise Creighton's First History of England). Geography : Leading physical features of the Continents and New Zealand. Elementary Physics. Object Lessons on Common Things. Needlework, drill, and class-singing. 5. SCHOLABSHIPS HELD DURING LAST QuAETEB OF YEAE. College. Endowed.— -Tinline, £52 10s.; Newcome, £24; Eichmond, £24; Stafford, £20; Fell, £16. Foundation. —First classical, £20; second classical, £10; third classical, £5. First mathematical, £20; second mathematical, £10; third mathematical, £5. Governors' Fees. —First modern languages, £12 10s.; second modern languages, £12 10s.; first English literature, £12 10s.; second English literature, £12 10s. Education Board.— At £52 10s., 5; at £12 10s., 9. Simmons Prize. —£6. Girls' College. Tinline.— £s2 12s. Edger. —At £15, two. Governors' Fees. —At £15, two. Education Board. —At £52 125., three; at £12 125., seven. School Commissioners. —At £12 125., six. GEEYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditueb for the Year ending 31st December, 1888. Receipts. & s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 20 10 0 By Management— Interest .. .. .. ~ 65 1 0 Salary .. .. .. .. 5 5 0 Repayment of loan .. .. .. 250 0 0 Other expenses of management .. 2 7 6 Payment to Grey Education Board .. 70 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 257 18 6 £335 11 0 £335 11 0 E. Nancaeeow, Chairman. E. T. Eobinson, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—Jambs Edwaed FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General. HOKITIKA HIGH SCHOOL. Balance-sheet of the Board of Goveenoes of the Hokitika High School for the Year ending 31st December, 1888. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ b. d. To Balance in Bank of New Zealand, 31st De- By E. B. Simmons—printing notices .. 17 6 cember, 1887 .. • • • • 113 1 Gooch and Richards—repairs.. .. 4 3 8 On fixed deposit in Bank of New Zealand, Cooke—plans and specifications .. 5 10 0 31st December, 1887 .. .. .. 1,106 10 0 Eeid and Co.—advertising .. .. 110 Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 51 18 0 Kumara Times —advertising .. .. 3 9 6 Overdraft, Bank of New Zealand at date .. 6 9 7 Park—solicitor's fee .. .. .. 110 Sundries .. .. .. .. 10 0 On |fixed deposit in Bank of New Zealand at date .. .. .. 1,158 8 0 £1,176 0 8 £1,176 0 8 J. P. Will, Hon. Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General. CHEISTCHUECH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Woek op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Mathematics : Todhunter's Euclid, I. to IV.; Hall and Knight's Algebra to end of quadratics; Barnard Smith's Exercises in Arithmetic; Hamblin Smith's Trignometry to solution of Triangles. Latin: Virgil, Georgics, Book IV.; Livy, Book I. ; Horace, Odes, Book II.; History of the Eomans; Abbott's Via Latina; Public School Latin Primer; Simpson's Caesarian Latin Prose; Abbott's Latin Prose through English idioms. English: Faery Queene, Book I. ; Scott's Old Mortality; Idylls of the King; Burkes Thoughts on Present Discontents; Morris's History of English Grammar; Stopford Brooke's Literature Primer; Abbott's How to Write Clearly. French: De Maistre's La Jeune Siberienne; La Fontaine; Macmillan's Progressive French Course, Parts 11. and 111. Greek : Smith's First Greek Book; Sidgwick's First Greek Writer; Greek Testament. History : Epochs of English History—The Settlement of the Constitution; England during the American and European Wars; Modern England, 1820-75. Geography: Longman's School Geography. Science: Howard's Practical Chemistry; Crum Brown's Elementary Chemistry Physiology (Foster's Primer); Oliver's Elementary Botany; Prantl's Text Book of Botany.