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3. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure of Nelson College for Girls for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. , Expenditure. £ s. d. To Pafd by School Commissioners.. .. 155 12 9 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 148 5 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 940 8 4 Management— Boarding-school fees .. .. .. 555 1 0 Salary .. .. .. 100 0 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 11 5 0 Other office expenses .. .. 30 0 0 Edger Scholarship .. .. .. 30 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 909 1 9 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 741 10 0 Boarding-school Account .. .. 624 10 10 Scholarships .. .. .. 100 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 54 15 0 Light, &e. .. .. .. .. 34 10 1 Insurance and taxes .. .. .. 74 10 2 Interest on mortgages .. .. .. 337 0 0 Auditor's fees.. .. .. .. 5 5 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 15 19 3 £2,433 17 1 £2,433 17 1 Oswald Curtis, Secretary. [Auditor's certificate attached to accounts as kept in the College books.]

4. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest (Form VI.). —Classics: Caesar, Gallic War, Book VII. ; Tacitus, Germania and Agricola; Horace, Satires Book 1., Ars Poetica, Odes Book I. ; Virgil, _Eneid, Book IV.; Xenophon, Anabasis, Book III.; Latin prose composition—Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose, and miscellaneous selections; Greek prose—Sidgwick's smaller. English: Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Julius Caesar; Trench, English Past and Present; Tennyson, Idylls of the King; history, 1702-1832; grammar and analysis, Morell; composition. French: Moliere, Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Corneille, Cinna, Horace; Madame de Stael, selected passages from Corinne and L'Allemagne; grammar and composition. Pure mathematics: Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, as defined for B.A. and B.Sc. of N.Z. University. Applied mathematics: Statics, hydrostatics, dynamics, as defined for B.A. and B.Sc. of N.Z. University. Physical science : Acoustics, optics, as defined for B.Sc. degree, N.Z. Chemistry: As for B.Sc. degree, N.Z., with some quantitative analysis and assaying. Lowest. —Latin: Principia, Part 1., 26 exercises and all verbs. English: Scott's Ivanhoe, Macaulay's Horatius and Armada, Hall's Elementary Grammar. History : From Conquest to end of Tudor period (Edith Thompson). Geography : Hughes's Smaller Physical, first eleven chapters. French: Sharp's Elementary Exercises, firso 27, with regular and irregular verbs. Arithmetic: Hamblin Smith, to simple interest. Girls. Highes ..—Mathematics : Arithmetic, Barnard Smith's School Arithmetic; algebra, to simple simultaneous equations; Euclid, to end of Book VI., Prop. 12. (Also by one member of the form, algebra, Euclid, and trigonometry as required by the B.A. degree in New Zealand University.) English: History of English literature of last half of eighteenth century; Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book I.; Morris's Elementary Historical English Grammar; composition. (Also read, by a section of the form, the books set for the B.A. degree.) English history : Early Hanoverians (Epochs of Modern History). General history: Sketch of early European history to the end of the tenth century. Geography: Geography of British Isles and some of the British colonial possessions. Elementary science : Portions of Todhunter's Elements of Natural Philosophy. French : Blouet's Composition, Brachet's Grammar, La Fontaine's Fables. (One member of the form prepared work for the B.A. degree.) German : Otto's German Grammar, selections ; Uhlancl's Select Ballads; part of Schiller's Maria Stuart. Latin: Bradley's Arnold, exercises Ito 32 ; Caesar, Book VII. of Gallic War ; selections from Ovid. Lowest. —Arithmetic : Simple and compound rules. English : Scott's Lady of the Lake ; Smith and Hall's English Grammar, selections ; parsing, analysis, and composition. Geography : General physical features of the continents; chief ports, with exports and imports; physical geography of the ocean. English history : Outlines from William the Conqueror to beginning of George the Third. General history : Brief sketch of European history during first twelve centuries. Elementary science : First principles of physics. French : Chardenal's First French Course, exercises 1 to 144; Contes de Fees, by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont; selections; easy conversation. Latin: Principia Latina to end of exercise 20. German: Grimm's Kinder und Haus Marchen; Macmillan's First German Course (a portion).

5. SCHOLAESHIPS HELD DURING LAST QuAETER OF YeAE. College. Endowed.— Tinline, £52 10s.; Newcome, £24; Richmond, £24 ; Stafford, £20; Fell, £16. Foundation. —First classical, £20; second classical, £10; third classical, £5. First mathematical, £20'; second mathematical, £10; third mathematical, £5. Governors' Fees. —First modern languages, £12 10s.; first English literature, £12 10s.; second English literature, £12 10s.^ chemistry, £12 10s. Simmons Prize. —£6. Girls' College. Tinline.— £s2 12s. Edger. —At £15, two. Governors' Fees. —At £15, two. School Commissioners, —At £12 125., six,