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4. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1890. Assets. £ s. &. Liabilities. & a. d. Pees clue .. .. .. .. 98 0 5 Bank overdraft .. .. .. .. 2,413 7 6 Rents . 297 5 7 Unpresented cheques .. .. .. 385 17 8 Sundry accounts .. .. .. 259 19 9 395 6 0 Advance from Government .. .. 1,000 0 0 4,059 4 10 College buildings (cost £12,000) and reserves, not less than .. .. 7,000 0 0 Loan contracted for buildings (College) .. 5,000 0 0 Girl's High School buildings (cost £5,118) Loan contracted for buildings (Girl's High and reserves, not less than .. .. 7,000 0 0 School) .. .. .. •• 5,118 3 2 Special Funds. Turribull Fund. £ s. d. Invested in mortgages .. .. .. 800 0 0 At interest in bank and elsewhere .. 1,185 12 3 Interest down .. .. .. •• 14 0 0 Nil. £1,999 12 3 Moore Scholarship Fund. Capital deposited at interest.. .. .. 515 50 | Towards scholarship. Interest due and accrued .. • • 7 8 9 £522 13 9 Bhodes Scholarship Fund. Capital deposited at interest .. .. 515 5 0 Towards scholarship. Interest due and accrued .. .. 7 8 9 522 13 9 Barnicoat Prize Fund. Capital and interest .. .. .. 109 10 0 ; Interest due and accrued .. . • 3 13 . Nil. £112 11 3 Wellington, 11th February, 1891. Charles P. Powles, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

5. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest.— -Latin : Livy, XXI. and XXII.; Horace, Satires (Books I. and II.); sight translation, various; Latin prose, Moir ; Latin Primer, all, with notes. Greek : Xenophon, Anabasis, Book I. ; easy sight translation ; Sidgwick's First Greek Eeader; grammar—Abbott and Mansfield, and accidence generally. English: Grammar — Smith and Hall, and' Morris; composition — Hall, Abbott, and various; Chaucer, Prologue and Nonne Preste's Tale; Spenser, Book L, Canto 5; Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice ; Milton, Comus ; essays, various. French: Havet's Grammar, Parts I. and II.; Havet's Composition, Nos. 11 to 22; Eacine, Athalie; Sandeau, Mdlle. de la Seigliere; Labiche, Le Voyage de Mons. Perichon. Arithmetic: The whole subject. Algebra: To end of perms, and combs. Trigonometry: Todhunter, for Beginners. Euclid: Books 1., 11., 111., IV., VI., and deductions. Science: Inorganic chemistry, heat, electricity. Mechanics: Todhunter, for Beginners. Lowest.— Latin : Principia, Part I. to page 87; easy selections from Ovid. French : Elementary. English: Outlines of etymology and syntax; analysis and parsing; composition, various. Geography: New Zealand, Australia, and outlines of Europe, Asia, and Africa. History: George I. to Victoria. Arithmetic : Vulgar and decimal fractions, and commercial rules. Girls. Highest. — Latin : Csesar, Gallic War, Book Vil.; Horace, Satires (Book I.) and Ars Poetica ; sight translation; Bradley's Arnold; Latin prose composition. Mathematics: As for University junior scholarship and first year's College terms. Literature: Chambers's Literature, the Stuart Period to Victoria with illustrative readings. History :As for junior scholarship ; Green's Short History of the English people. Geography :As for junior scholarship. Grammar : Morris's Elementary Historical English Grammar; Smith and Hall, syntax; Abbott's How to write clearly; Chaucer's Prologue ; composition; paraphrase; use of synonyms ; esssys on subjects from standard authors. French: Havet's French Class-book, Part H.; Havet's French Composition ; translation — gcribe Le Diplomate ; Eacine's Athalie.

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