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2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin: Horace —Odes, Book I. (Macmillan's Elementary Classics); Ovid, Selections (Shuckburgh); Ctesar, Book VII. (Bond and Walpole) ; Livy, Book XXII. (Melhuish) ; Horton's History of the Bomans; Bradley's Arnold, Latin Prose Composition; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose; Latin Prose, Part 1., Caasarian prose (Simpson); Bevised Latin Primer (Kennedy's); Wilkin's Primer of Boman Antiquities; Gepp and Haigh's Latin Dictionary; Easy Graduated Latin Passages for Unseen Translation (Bennett). English: Mason's English Grammar; Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Hale's Longer English Poems; Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale ; Kinsley's Hypatia ; Longmans' Handbook of English Literature, Part V., from Burke to present time. French : Alfred De Musset (Hachette's Modern Authors) ; Macmillan's Progressive French Course, Part 11. ; Short Passages from Standard Authors for Translation and Dictation (Alfred Hamonet); George Sand, La Mare au diable (John Davis) ; Wellington School French Grammar (Eve and De Beaudais). Mathematics: Ward's Examination Papers in Trigonometry; Hamblin Smith's Exercise on Algebra; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Hall and Steven's Euclid, Parts I. and II.; Lock's Elementary Trigonometry. Science: Longmans' Advanced Scienoe Manuals; Jago's Inorganic Chemistry; Garnett's Heat. Greek: Mayor's Greek for Beginners. Drawing : Geometrical —Longmans' Drawing Books. Lowest. —Latin : Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, Part I. English : Star Beader, Standard IV. ; Brief History; Longmans' Junior School Grammar. French: Macmillan's French Course, Part I. Mathematics: Nelson's Arithmetic, No. 4. Singing: Nursery Bhyme Quadrilles —first set, Jack and Gill; Mendelssohn's Four-part Songs. Writing: Upright Penmanship; Jackson's Vertical Writing Copy-books, Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Drawing : Freehand.

3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to twenty-seven scholars. Twenty scholarships of the Education Board—four, at £40, sixteen at £20—were held at the school.

CHBISTCHUBCH GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 1,035 13 6 By Management .. .. .. 70 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 371 9 2 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,645 0 0 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 237 3 10 Examinations— School fees .. .. .. .. 1,640 2 0 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 70 7 0 Interest on current account .. .. 60 11 10 Other expenses .. .. .. 10 15 0 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 224 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 63 0 0 Printing, stationery, stamps, telegrams, and advertising .. .. .. 75 19 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 23 6 3 New carpets and furniture .. .. 13 10 11 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 21 17 8 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 50 13 2 Expenses of cooking-classes .. .. . 23 15 1 Music, ana tuning pianos .. .. 7 10 0 Microscopes .. .. .. .. 14 8 7 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 10 4 0 Refuna of fees .. .. .. 2 12 6 Sundries .. .. .. .. 018 7 Balance .. .. .. .. 1,017 2 0 £3,345 0 4 £3,345 0 4 H. B. Webb, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Begistrar. 2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English : Literature—Morell's English Literature; Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature; Chaucer's Prologue; Shakespeare's King John, Bichard 11., Midsummer Night's Dream ; Milton's L'Allegro, II Penseroso, Lycidas ; grammar and composition—Mason's English Grammar; Morris's Smaller Historical Grammar; selections from Abbott's How to Write Clearly ; composition on books read ; correction of sentences. Latin : Translation —Cicero's Philippic, No. II.; Cicero's Select Letters (Macmillan's Series); Horace's Satires and Epistles; Virgil's iEneid, Books V. and VI., lines 1-265 ; Pliny's Letters, Book I.; Livy, Book XXI., first forty chapters; translation at sight; grammar—Bradley's Arnold; Abbott's Idioms; Latin Prose Composition. Boman History: Smith's Smaller History of Borne; Smith's Antiquities (selections). French: Translation —Zola's L'Attaque dv Moulin; Merimee's Colomba; Quinet's Lettres a sa Mere; Moliere's L'Avare; Bacine's Andromaque; Bruey's L'Avocat Patelin; grammar—Brachet's Public School French Grammar, with exercises; Bue's Idioms; selections from the Wellington College Grammar; French Prose Composition. Mathematics: Arithmetic, Euclid, algebra, and trigonometry, as for the Junior University Scholarship Examination. Science': Botany, heat, as for the Junior Scholarship Examination, University of New Zealand. Cooking; dress-cutting ; drill; swimming.