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conferred are: B.A. and B.Sc, 8 ; B.A. and LL.B., 19 ; 8.A., M.8., and Ch.B., 5 ; 8.A., B.Sc. and M.8., Ch.B., 2 ; B.Sc. and M.8., Ch.B., 1; M.A. and B.Sc. 25 ; M.A. and LL.B., 17 ; M.A. and D.Sc, 2 ; M.A. and M.8., Ch.B., 4; M.A. and LL.I)., 3. The number of degrees authorised to be conferred after the examinations of 1901 was 101: 8.A., 42; B.Sc, 6; LL.B., 13; M.8., 1; M.B. and Ch.B., 8; M.A., 30; D.Sc, 1. As appears by the Chancellor's report, the number of candidates who were examined at the usual examinations in November and December, 1901, and in January and April, 1902, in the faculties of arts, science, medicine, law, and music, and for admission to the legal profession, was 1,366. The number of students at affiliated colleges in 1901 was 783, of whom 274 were women. Of these students, 581 were matriculated at the University of New Zealand. The numbers in attendance at the several colleges were as follows : University of Otago, 160 men and 50 women matriculated, and 26 men and 1 woman not matriculated; at Canterbury College, 95 men and 53 women matriculated, and 18 men and 54 women not matriculated; at Auckland University College, 81 men and 30 women matriculated, and 30 men and 41 women not matriculated; and at Victoria College, 75 men and 37 women matriculated, and 24 men and 8 women not matriculated. The reports of these colleges are papers E.-7, E.-8, E.-9, arid E.-10 respectively. " The Univeusity Endowment Act, 1868." The income accrued under this Act, and applicable to purposes of higher education yet to be determined by Parliament, amounted, on the 31st March, 1902, to .£5,757 17s. Id., as follows: Canterbury reserves, £2,102 18s. 4d.; Westland, £239 12s. 6d. ; Taranaki, £3,415 6s. 3d. Civil Service Examinations. As usual the Civil Service Examinations were conducted this year (in January) by the Education Department simultaneously with the examination for teachers' certificates. There were 467 candidates for the Junior Civil Service Examination, and the names of 294 were published in order of merit in the Gazette of the 27th February. For the Senior Civil Service Examination there were 143 candidates, of whom 23 passed. Further particulars are given in the report of the examination (E.-1a). Teachebs fob South Afbica. In March of the present year a letter was received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on behalf of the Administration of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, asking that twenty women teachers might be sent to assist in the work of instructing the children in the refugee camps in South Africa. In response to an advertisement 220 teachers sent in applications through the Boards of the various education districts in which they were resident; about seventy of these were well-qualified candidates, and there was no difficulty in selecting twenty who satisfied all the conditions as to physique, experience, and other qualifications laid down by the Imperial authorities. The selected teachers were despatched from the colony on the 7th May, and on arrival in South Africa were at once appointed to posts in the camps in Natal and the Transvaal. Accounts received from them show that the shipping authorities and the colonial authorities in South Africa have done everything possible to provide for their comfort and safe transit. Subsidies fob Public Libbabies. By a vote of last session a sum of j£3,000 was granted for subsidies to public libraries; the same amount was voted for distribution in 1900-1. The method of distribution of the vote for 1901-2 was the same as that adopted in the previous year, as follows : A nominal addition of £25 was made to the amount of the