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" Manx drawings were spoilt by being on too small a scale (being rather free-hand drawings than free-arm), and a few by being too large, principally in the ornament." "The main constructions had not evidently been drawn at all, showing a total ignorance as to how a free-arm drawing should be set out. Elementary Physical Measurements. " Generally speaking, the papers showed that the bulk of the students had done very little, if any, practical work themselves." " Not a single student gave either a correct definition of the ' Law of Archimedes,' or an accurate method of proving it experimentally." " Scarcely any of the students had either made a simple barometer or knew its use." Latin and Creek. " This year, as last, 1 have to remark that many of the papers were not merely badly written —which may be the misfortune rather I ban the crime of the writer- —but slovenly. In many the punctuation was more or less defective; in one or two no distinction was made between different stops, a dash or an almost invisible dot serving for all alike. Flagran! misspellings occurred in many. Of course, much allowance must be made for haste; but when mistakes of this sort arcgross, and seem to imply indifference and habitual carelessness, some penalty should, I think, be imposed—at all events, that is my custom." "Itis a common but foolish practice to give two guesses. In case of ignorance, one guess, if it happens to be right, will escape detection and serve the purpose; but he who, in his desire to get two chances instead of one, puts down two, gives himself away." "In translation from Latin, errors as to. tense were very common. Again and again forms which even a beginner must have recognised as perfects (or aorists), if he had thought for a moment, were translated as presents, and that too when the effect was not to make translation easier but to make nonsense. It seems strange that those who did this have not noticed that, whilst (he difference of idiom often requires a past tense in English for a Latin (historic) present, the converse is never true."

EXAMINATION LISTS.

EXAMINATION FOR JUNIOR NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS AND FOR JUNIOR FREE PLACES IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, DISTRICT HIGH-SCHOOLS, AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

I. Candidates that have passed the Junior National Scholarship Examination (arranged in Order of Merit).

No. and Candidate. 1. Parker, H. F. .. 2. Barriball, A. J. W. 3. Wyllie. E. M. .. 4. Bell, B. M. 5. Ryburn, E. M. . . 6. VVatkin, E. A. .. 7. Stevens, W. G. .. 8. Free, C. W. 9. Roberts, S. 10. Mayo, G. M. 11. Atkinson, R. V. Milne, J. 13. Beard, T. E. 14. Stubbs, E. S. .. 15. Harle, I). A. Murraigh, K. B. 17. Whyte, M. KB. 18. Barriball, L. L. .. 19. Chamberlain, C. V. 20. Carter, Benjamin 21. Lang, M. C. 22. Armstrong, P. F. Inglis, L. M. Storkey, P. V. 25. Penniket, C. 26. Meikle, H. 27. Bell. E. M. W. .. Education District. Hawke's Bay Auckland Taranaki Auckland .. I Wanganui .. j Auckland .. i Auckland Marlborough Auckland Auckland Auckland .. ] Wanganui Wellington Auckland Taranaki Auckland Hawke's Bay Auckland Hawke's Bay Auckland Auckland Wellington Otago Hawke's Bay Auckland Auckland .. ' Wanganui a .. ' 703 .. j 684 .. 679 .. | 674 . . 665 .. 661 .. 648 .. 642 .. 641 . . 638 .. 637 .. 637 .. 632 .. 630 .. 628 .. 628 .. 627 . . 620 .. 625 .. 622 .. 621 .. 619 .. I 619 .. 619 .. 618 .. ' 610 .. ,614

No. and Candidate. Education District. I eg a I 28. Norris, H. C. M. 29. Darrow, L. R. .. 30. Neale, E. P. Whitwell, B. .. 32. Gill, W. M. 33. Whitaker, C. G. 34. Fraser, H. R. .. 35. Hall, L. W. B. .. 36. Corkill, T. F. .. McClurg, D. W. 38. Johns, J. A. 39. Hobday, E. P. .. 40. Raine, Harry 41. Roberts, William 42. Cogar, C. L. Goy, M. M. 44. Mills, J. E. 45. Anthony, I. M. .. .McNiven, C. A. .. 47. Caiman, Gordon 48. Campbell, F. A. 49. Ker, H. R. Lovatt, US. 51. Enting, E. L. .. 52. Langlev, LB... 53. Gair, C. J. M. .. Taranaki Auckland Otago Nelson Wellington Auckland Southland Hawke's Bay Wellington North Canterbury.. Otago Wellington Wanganui Auckland Hawke's Bay South Canterbury.. Wellington Wanganui Wanganui Wanganui Taranaki Otago Auckland | Hawke's Bay Hawke's Bay Otago 611 610 609 609 603 602 601 599 598 598 595 593 591 590 589 589 588 587 587 586 583 581 581 580 579 578