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3. Woek op Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —Latin : Cicero, In Verrem L, Pro Archil, Philippic ix., Pro Lege Manilia (part); Horace, Balser's Selection of Epistles and Satires; prose from Frost's Materials, and selected pieces f also revision of Bradley's Arnold, Ex. 40 to end; sight translation; grammar. English: Smith's Smaller History of Rome (Revised) ; Milton's Comus; Airy's Selected Essays from the Spectator; Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; Chaucer's Squier's Tale. Grammar: Revision of Morris's Elementary Historical Accidence, and general; Peile's Primer of Philology; Nichol's Primer of Composition; essays; paraphrase. French: Chardenal's Advanced Exercises, Nos. 20-84, and general; Turrell's Lemons en Prose et Vers, pp. 145-246 ; Blouet's Composition, Part hi. Nos. i.-xvii., revisal of Part i. Nos. i.-l. Mathematics, chemistry, electricity, and magnetism, as for junior University scholarships, with practical work in chemistry. Lowest. —English : History of England, Blackwood's Second Beader (the whole). Geography ; Blackwood's Second Beader (the whole). Beading: The above Readers; also from Macaulay's Poems, Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, etc. Repetition : Macaulay's Armada and Ivry, Cowper's John Gilpin. Grammar: Davidson and Alcock's Intermediate, to p. 58 ; analysis of simple sentences, &c. Spelling. Writing. Drawing. Visits to local industries, with preparatory lessons and subsequent composition. Arithmetic :To easy fractions. Girls. Highest. —Latin : Cicero, In Verrem i., Pro Archia, Philippic ix., Pro Lege Manilia (part); Horace, a few Satires and Epistles ; prose, Bradley's Arnold, Ex. 35 to end; revision of early exercises; a few pieces of continuous prose; sight translation; grammar. English: Milton's Samson Agonistes ; Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice ; Airy's Selected Essays from the Spectator; Chaucer's Squier's Tale. Grammar: Bevision of Morris's Elementary Historical Accidence, and general; Nichol's Primer of Composition; essays; paraphrase; Smith's Smaller History of Borne. French : Chardenal's Advanced Exercises, Nos. 1-49, and general grammar; Turrell's Lecons en Prose et Vers, pp. 1-115 ; Blouet's Composition, Part i. Nos. i.-xli., Part ii. Nos. i.-vi. Mathematics, chemistry, heat, as for junior University scholarships. Drawing. Lowest. —English: History of England; Blackwood's First Reader (the whole); Second Reader, pp. 1-100. Geography: Blackwood's Second Reader (the whole). Reading: The above Readers; Longman's Fourth Beader (the whole) ; and from Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare. Bepetition. Grammar : Davidson and Alcock's Intermediate, to p. 37. Spelling. Writing. Drawing. Berners's First Lessons in Health (the whole). Arithmetic: To compound rules (inclusive).

4. SCHOLAESHIPS HELD AT THE SCHOOL DUEING LAST QuAETEE. Boys. College Scholarships. —Senior foundation (£2O and free education), 1; junior foundation (free education), 7; special scholarships (free education), 8; to ex-district scholars (free education), 4; under Education Board's certificates of proficiency (free education), 3; children of members of staff, 4. The College also gives free education to some holders of Education Board's scholarships. Bawlings Scholarships (free education), 9. Girls. College Scholarships. —Senior foundation (£2O and free education), 2 ; junior foundation (free education), 1 ; to ex-district scholar (free education), 1 ; to ex-Girls' High School scholar (free education), 1; under Education Board's certificates of proficiency (free education), 6; children of members of staff, 3.

Twenty-six Education Board scholarships were held at the College, seventeen by boys and nine by girls, of whom fourteen received free tuition.

AUCKLAND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Statement of Receipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 0 10 5 By Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 112 3 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 41 0 0 Rates on endowment .. .. .. 40 16 4 Sale of furniture .. .. .. 118 0 Balance in hand and in bank at end of year 019 10 £43 8 5 £43 8 5 i J. H. Upton, Chairman. Vincent E. Rice, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct, —James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller £tnd Auditor-General,