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1886. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: THE CANTERBURY COLLEGE (PAPERS RELATING TO). [In Continuation of E.-7, 1885.]

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

STATEMENT OP CHAIEMAN OP THE BOAED OP GOVERNORS. At the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College, held on the 12th July, 1886, the Chairman, Mr. P. de C. Malet, made the following statement of the progress made and the work done in the several departments during the year:—■ This is the thirteenth annual meeting of the Board. I propose to give a short statement showing the work done in the several departments during the past twelve months. Since the last annual meeting I regret to say we have lost one of our members through death—Mr. H. P. Lance, who for eight years had been a Governor of the College. Two Governors of the College, Messrs. Bowcn and Coward, have resigned their seats. On the 21st November last the graduates on the books of Canterbury College elected Messrs. AY. Chrystall, J. V. Ross, and R. Westenra to be members of the Board of Governors. There are still two vacancies, which will be filled up at an election to be held shortly, or as soon as certain alterations shall have been made respecting the mode of procedure for nominating candidates. The College. The number of matriculated students attending the classes during the past year was 103 as against ninety-three for the previous year. The total number of matriculated and nonmatriculated students attending lectures in 1885-86 was 314, as compared with 204 for 1881-85. The number of students attending each lecture during the last term was as follows : — Classics. —Pass Latin: Translation, 49; composition, 47. Greek: Translation, 7; composition, 7. Honours Latin : Translation, 3 ; composition, 7. English Literature. —Pass Lectures: Literature of Commonwealth, 63; language of Shakespeare and George Eliot, 52; composition, 155; art of Shakespeare and George Eliot, 169. Honours Lectures: Philology, 23; criticism, 40. History (1625 to 1688), 36. Mathematics. —Lower division, 31; upper division, 2; mechanics and hydrostatics, 15; advanced mathematics, 2; elementary mathematics, 6. Chemistry and Physics. — Junior chemistry, 16; senior chemistry, 4; junior physics, 15; senior physics, 9; physics (teachers'' class), 7; laboratory practice, 14. Geology. —Junior geology, 7; senior geology, 1; laboratory practice, 7. Biology. —Pirst year botany, 8; second year botany, 13; honours botany, 4; pass biology (physiology), 11; laboratory practice, botany, 22. French.. —Senior class, 7 ; junior class, 6. German, 3. , Jurisprudence, 10. Constitutional History, 6. L,aw, 3. Five students from the College have this year obtained the degree of M.A. 11. Lamb and T. W. Rowe gained at the same time first-class honours in languages; P. Kime, first-class honours in mathematics ; H. von Haast, second-class honours in political science; and H. Cross, secondclass honours in languages. Six students of the College have passed the final section of their B.A. examination, and had the degree conferred on them (one of them under the teachers' regulations) —Misses A. Gresham, E. S. Milsom, E. Pitcaithly, and L. M. Will, and Messrs. W. D. Andrews and W. 11. A. Craddock; whilst nine have passed the first section of their B.A. examination—Misses E. Bilton, B. Gibson, M. Gibson, E. Gribben, M. Lorimer, and P. Taylor, and Messrs. W. Armitage, P. Fcndall, and A. R. Meek. Only two senior scholarships of the six offered by the New Zealand University this year were awarded, and they were gained by students of this College- —the English and Latin scholarship by W. 11. A. Craddock, and the political science scholarship by Miss E. Pitcaithly. The College exhibitions given for excellence in honours work at the College annual examinations were awarded as follows: For Latin, W. H. A. Craddock; for English, Miss A. E. Mills and O. T. J. Alpers, who were equal; for mathematics, R. Speight; for natural science, F. P. Fendall; for experimental science, T. W. Ambrose; for Greek and French, and history, political economy and French, J. H. Smith and Miss B. Gibson, who were equal. The graduates of the University of New Zealand who have been educated at the College now number fifty-one, twenty-six of whom have obtained the degree of M.A., and twenty-five the degree of B.A. Three of these have also obtained the E—l= 7.