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CHRISTCHURCH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL.* Receipts and Expenditube for the Tear 1880. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Foes (school and extra) ... ... 1,316 5 6 By Balance last audit ... ... ... 146 16 5 Interest from invested loans ... ... 497 11 8 Salaries, including house allowance to ladyGrant from School Commissioners ... 250 0 0 principal and capitation fees ... ... 1,540 5 4 Transfer of cost of conveyance of site to Lecturer on science ... ... ... 35 0 0 College Building Account, and ashphalt- Teachers, extra subjects ... ... 241 17 7 ing ... ... ... ... 14 1 0 Exhibitions ... ... ... ... 86 13 4 Interest ... ~. ... ... 192 10 2 Examination fees ... ... ... 31 10 0 Balance ... ... ... ~, 142 5 0 Rent of playground ... ... ... 75 0 0 Prizes " ... ... ... ... 22 3 0 Insurance ... ... ... ... 21 10 0 Gas and fuel ... ... ... 29 7 9 hates ... ... ... ... 57 10 0 Advertising and stationery ... ... 36 7 11 Miscellaneous ... ... ... 88 12 0 £2,412 13 4 £2,412 13 4

CHRISTCHURCH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL.* Prospectus. Head master, Thomas Miller, M.A., late Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, and recently on the staff of University College, London. Second master, George Hogben, 8.A., St Catherine's College, Cambridge, late Mathematical and Science Master at Aldenham Grammar School, Hertfordshire. Junior masters will be appointed in the colony. This school will open on or about the 18th May, and will be a preparatory school for boys who will afterwards enter on their regular course of study as students of the University, and also for boys whose parents may wish them to receive a good education at a public school, without intending that they shall subsequently pursue a regular University course. There will be two divisions in the school—the one to give more prominence to the ancient classics ; the other to the modern languages, mathematics, and science. Instruction will be given in English, French, German, drawing, class-singing, and drill, without extra fees. Fees: For boys over twelve years, £12 12s. per annum, or £4 4s. per term; under twelve years, £9 9s. per annum, or £3 3s. per term. Application for admission to be made to the Registrar, at his office, Canterbury College.

ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL. Sir,— Ashburton, 29th April, 1881. In accordance with section 8 of "The Ashburton High School Act, 1878," I beg to forward you the second annual report of the Ashburton High School Board. Since the Board had the honour of reporting to you last year, it has, on the representation of certain parents and guardians of children wishing to obtain a higher education than that now provided in this county, endeavoured to meet this want by initiating a high school. The Board inserted advertisements in the leading newspapers of Australia and New Zealand, inviting applications for the mastership of this school, and met with such success that it had the difficulty of selecting a master from 33 applicants. The choice fell upon Mr. C. Hogg, 8.A., who, the Board believes, will form a school which will be a credit to this county. The Board has erected a brick-and-stono building for the accommodation of 65 children, which the Board thinks will be about the number likely to attend for the present. This building has been so constructed that, when required, it will form part of a larger school. The site has been fenced in, and a belt of trees planted on the north-west and south-west sides; an inner fence preventing the trees from being spoilt by the boys attending the school. The cost of the building, without furniture, is £596 10s., and the expenditure in connection with the site is £91 Bs. 6d. The Board wishes to mark its sense of the great aid the School Commissioners have rendered it by placing to the Board's credit the sum of £250 towards payment of the master's salary. Copy of accounts, duly audited, and statement of reserves, showing the rents for which reserves are let, are attached. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. James E. Teevoe, Chairman.

Abstbact of Accounts for the Tear 1880. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. d. To Balances ... ... ... ... 291 611 By Office salaries, advertising, &c. ... ~. 61 611 Proceeds of endowments ... ... 407 8 2 Cost of building, fencing, &c. ... ... 293 13 6 Deposit refunded ... ... ... 316 0 Sundries ... ... ... .., 78 1 1 Deposited in Building Society ... ... 150 0 0 Balance ... ... ... ... 119 9 7 £702 11 1 £702 11 1 Note. —A copy of the full accounts of tho Board's intromissions for the year, of which the foregoing is an abstract, was forwarded, bearing the following certificate : " Examined and found correct.—J. Ollivier, Provincial District Auditor. 13th January, 1881."

* See also Paper relating to Canterbury College, Appendix to Journals of House of Representatives, 1881, E.-4.