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4. Abstract of the Endowment Account of Nelson College for the Year ending the 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance on 31st December, 1893, brought By Interest, Girls' College 325 0 0 down .. 1,583 8 4 City rates— Interest Account 724 15 3 Girls' College 18 13 3 Rent Account 924 15 10 Boys' College 28 1 2 School Commissioners' subsidy 300 0 0 InsuranceGirls' College 42 0 0 Boys' College 67 4 0 Repairs— Girls' College 43 10 7 Boys' College 48 13 0 Governors' fees .. 105 0 0 Debit Balances—• Girls' College . .. 183 16 1 Boys' College .. 982 0 10 Balance carried down .. 1,689 0 6 £3,532 19 5 £3,532 19 5 Oswald Cuetis, Secretary We hereby certify that we have examined the above accounts, and found them correct. J T Catley, ) A -~, A. A. SOAiFE,t Audltors -

5. WOEK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Boys' College. Highest. —Latin Tacitus, Agricola, Virgil, iEneid 11., Horace, Satires 1., Bradley's Arnold , Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose , translation at sight from Livy, XXI.-XXIV., Smith's History of Borne. Greek Smith's Initia Greeca, Sidgwick's Introduction to Greek Prose , Xenophon's Anabasis, 11. English Shakspeare, Julius Caesar and Merchant of Venice, Johnson's Rasselas; Macaulay's Essay on Johnson; Mason's English Composition, Composition. French Voltaire's Charles XII., Moliere's L'Avare; Wellington College Grammar, Sharp's Syntax. Mathematics General Arithmetic, Hall and Knight's Larger Algebra up to Binomial Theorem, Jones and Cheyne's Algebra Exercises , Hall and Stevens's Euclid, 1.-VI., Lock's Elementary Trigonometry , Ward's Examination Papers in Trigonometry , Lock's Dynamics. Science Boscoe's Inorganic Chemistry , Dobbin and Walker's Chemical Theory, Deschanel's Sound and Light. Lowest. —English Beading, Writing, Dictation , Parsing and Analysis , Hall's Primary English Grammar, Gardiner's Outline of English History, Henry VII. to Charles 11, Geography of New Zealand, Australia, British Isles, Europe, and outline of the world , Geikie's Primer of English Geography Arithmetic Lock's Elementary, up to and including vulgar and decimal fractions. Latin Welch and Duffield's Syntax , Abbott's Via Latina, pp. 1-50. Girls' College. Highest. —Mathematics Arithmetic, the whole subject, Algebra, to the end of binomial theorem, Euclid, Books 1., 11., 111., IV., VI.; Trigonometry, to the end of solution of triangles. Latin Grammar —Bradley's Arnold and Abbott's Prose Composition, prose writing, sight translation ; antiquities, Boman history, Tacitus—Agricola, Germania , Ovid—Tristia, Book I. English Morris-'s English Grammar, Abbott's How to Write Clearly, Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for English People ; Lectures on Literature of Period, 1744-1800 chapters from Manual of English Literature, by Professor Brown, dealing with period, Esmond, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, essay writing, correction of sentences, &c. French Wellington College School Grammar; Sainsbury, Literature (period, the Age of Louis XIV.), Corneille's Cinna and Les Horaces , Moliere, Le Misanthrope ; Voltaire, Charles XII., French prose composition. History Epochs; the settlement of the Constitution, England during the American and European wars. Geography Gill's Geography—Africa, Australia, New Zealand, America. Class drawing, club exercises, &c. Lowest. —Arithmetic Easy sums in simple proportion by unitary method, compound rules, highest common factor English Writing, spelling, dictation, the parts of speech and easy parsing and analysis, Mrs. Ewing's Brownies , Standard Sixth, London School Series. Geography Europe, Africa, New Zealand —only most important facts, no text-book. English history Gardiner's History, Tudor and Stuart period. Sewing, club exercises, &c. 6. Scholarships. College. Endowed Tinline, £52 125., Newcome, £24, Bichmond, £24, Stafford, £20, Fell, £16. College One at £32 125., one at £16, one at £14, one at £12 125., one at £12 , one at £6 , three at £4. Girls' College. Tinline £52 12s. Governors' Fees Two at £15. College Two at £15 ; three at £12 125., one at £5. School Commissioners Six at £12 12s. Eleven scholarships of the Nelson Education Board and one of the Marlborough Education Board were held at the Boys' College, and eleven of the Nelson Education Board and one of the Marlborough Education Board were held at the Girls' College.