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L. Cuff gained the two vacant scholarships. The number of students attending last term was 38. Additional applications have been made from students desirous of entering the school next term. The buildings are now completed, and accommodate fifty-five students, with lecture and class-rooms and apartments for the staff. Since the last meeting the following appointment has been made, viz., Mr. F. Barkas, A.Sc, Durham, as Lecturer on Chemistry. It has been the earnest desire of the Board that this institution should be considered of colonial importance, and, in order to give facility to young men from every part of the colony to enter as students, the Board granted travelling allowance to students to and from their homes once in each year. As the school has only been two years in existence the results cannot be expected to be very apparent. Good work, however, has been done. I beg to direct the attention of the Governors to a valuable report lately furnished by Mr. Ivey, director of this school, which report I suggest should be published for general information. Accounts. —The accounts of the Board for the financial year ending the 31st December, 1881, have been audited and certified as being correct by Mr. Ollivier, who was appointed by the Government for that purpose.

Abstract of Accounts of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College, for the Tear ending 31st December, 1881. Seceipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Grants for Girls' High School ... 700 0 0 By Balance brought forward ... ... 654 9 3 Girls' High School fees ... ... 1,201 0 9 CollegeProfessors'fees ... ... ... 634 14 6 Maintenance ... ... ... 5,625 910 College maintenance... ... ... 105 5 0 Buildings ... ... ... 2,904 310 Boys' High School ... ... ... 715 16 8 Fees ... ... ... ... 634 14 6 Sale of text-books ... ... ... 76 13 8 Text-books ... ... ... 717 7 Public library maintenance ... ... 594 13 11 Library ... ... ... ... 50 10 8 Laboratory... ... ... ... 44 5 10 Public Library — School of Agriculture — Maintenance ... ... ... 1,571 810 Fees ... ... ... ... 1,401 14 6 Reference ... ... ... 186 12 6 Sale of stock produce ... ... 1,364 8 0 Museum — Implements, &c. ... ... ... 21 16 5 Maintenance ... ... ... 2,499 8 6 Interest on loans ... ... ... 3,973 7 7 Buildings ... ... ... 1,636 4 9 Eents ... ... ... ... 974 6 8 Laboratory... ... ... ... 151 17 9 Land sales ... • ... ... 925 9 9 „ chemicals ... ... 46 0 0 Bents — Girls' High School — Classical School ... ... ... 2,197 19 4 Maintenance ... ... ... 2,014 17 8 Superior education ... ... 1,863 19 7 Buildings ... ... ... 2,325 13 3 Boys' High School ... ... 1,102 11 8 Boys' High SchoolSchool of Technical Science... ... 1,456 13 3 Maintenance ... ... ... 2,960 410 Land Bales... ... ... ... 808 0 9 Buildings ... ... ... 2,026 16 3 Refund ... ... ... ... 15 0 0 School of Agriculture— Repayment of loans... ... ... 30,700 0 0 Labour and maintenance ... ... 5,086 0 0 Loan ... ... ... ... 25,300 0 0 Buildings and permanent improvements 9,392 15 1 Interest ... ... ... ... 1,803 4 5 Plantations ... ... ... 97 14 3 Deposit account ... ... ... 3,746 12 0 Livestock ... ... ... 359 0 0 School of Agriculture, imprest account... 24 19 4 Implements ... ... ... 265 15 11 Balance overdraft ... ... ... 462 9 5 Library ... ... ... 25 2 0 Capital account ... ... ... 4,966 10 9 School of Mines ... ... ... 97 13 11 „ and Models ... ... 77 14 4 School of Art ... ... ... 678 9 8 Loans and refunds ... ... ... 35,822 12 0 Interest ... ... ... 21 9 4 Deposits ... ... ... 25 0 0 Classical School ... ... ... 220 Girls' High School, capital account '" 103 13 9 £82,318 3 0 £82,318 3 0 I have audited this account, and have compared the items with the vouchers, and find it correct. J. Ollivier, 26th April, 1882. Provincial District Auditor.

Report on the Progress and Condition of the Canterbury Museum, Cheistohucu, 30th June, 1882. I have the honor to submit to you my annual report on the progress of and improvements made in the Canterbury Museum. It is my pleasant duty to state that also during the past financial year the Canterbury Museum has made considerable progress in every respect. The number of donors to the Museum during the past twelve months reached a total of 135, many of the presentations being of peculiar value and interest. The most important specimens for the natural history and ethnographical divisions were received from the following gentlemen and institutions : Mr. R. W. Fereday ; Mr. J. D. Enys, F.G.S. ; Mr. T. W. Hacket, in Nelson; Mr. G. M. Thompson, F.L.S., in Dunedin; Dr. J. Hector, F.R.S., in Wellington ; Dr. George Bennett, F.L.S., in Sydney; the Royal Museum, Bruxelles ; Captain Greenstreet, of the "Mataura;" Mr. Charles Chilton, MA. ; Mr. J. E. Brown, M.H.R.; Mr. Edward Meinck, 8.A.; and His Excellency Sir Arthur Gordon, G.C.M.G. For the technological branch the most important contributions were from Mr. T. F. Cheesman, F.L.S., Auckland; Mr. James Barnard, Launceston ; Messrs. Emerson, Smith, and Co., Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania ; Mr. D. Sladden, Oxford ; Public Works Department, Christchurch; Science and Art Department, South Kensington, London ; Mr. C. B. Knorpp, Public Works Department, Wellington ; Mr. T. H. Potts, F.L.S. ; Mr. G.