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2. Work done at Christchurch Boys' High School during Last Term of 1889. Highest. —Latin : Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia; Livy, Hannibal's campaign in Italy ; Horace, Odes, ___>ok IV.; Horton's History of the Romans; Primer; Bradley's Arnold; Simpson's Latin Prose, Part I. (Caesarian Prose) ; Harkness's Latin Grammar; Revised Latin Primer; unseen translations; retranslations of Livy. Greek: Mayor's Greek for Beginners (complete), to end of regular verbs, with exercises and vocabularies; Abbott and Mansfield's Greek Grammar Primer ; Greek Reader. English : Shakespeare's Richard II.; Macaulay's Essays (Frederick the Great; Earl of Chatham) ; Tennyson (Selections for Indian Students) ; Mason's English Grammar; Stopford Brooke's Literature Primer ; Abbott's How to write clearly ; abstracts ; paraphrases ; essays. French: Selection from About's Tales; Moliere, L'Avare; Macmillan's Progressive French Course, Parts 11. and 111. Mathematics (for junior scholarship) : Hall and Knight's Algebra; Euclid, Books 1.-VI.; Barnard Smith's Exercises in Arithmetic; Lock's Trigonometry. History : Longman's Epochs of English History (The Settlement of the Constitution; Modern England); Student's Hume. Geography: Longman's School Geography for Australasia. Science: Thorpe's Metals ; Howard's Practical Chemistry. Physics : Garrett's Heat. Lowest.- —Latin : Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course; Public School Latin Primer (to end of declensions). English : Abbott's How to tell the Parts of Speech ; Royal Reader No. 4 ; Nelson's Brief History; dictation, transcription, composition (easy), parsing. French: Macmillan's French Course, Part I. Mathematics: Lock's Arithmetic for Beginners (four rules, simple and compound). Geography : Whitcombe and Tombs's First Lessons in Geography. Science : Roscoe's Chemistry Primer; Balfour Stewart's Physics Primer; Garnett's Elementary Mechanics ; Bettany's First Lessons in Practical Botany. General.— Book-keeping: The Irish Educational Series. Singing: Collegiate Singing Manual; Curwen's Pupil's Manual of Tonic Sol-Fa. Writing (on foolscap, from copies on blackboard) ; extra writing (upright penmanship). Drawing: Freehand and model, geometrical; Colonial Drawing-book (for junior class). Swimming. Drill.

3. Scholarships held at the School during the Last Quarter of the Year. The school gives free education to twenty-seven scholars. Eighteen scholarships of the North Canterbury Education Board are held at the school.

CHRISTCHURCH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 667 16 0 By Management—Salary .. .. 70 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 371 9 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,661 6 0 Interest on moneys invested .. 216 10 7 ; ExaminationsSchool fees .. .. .. .. 1,737 4 6 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 54 1 6 Interest on current account .. .. 23 14 4 Other expenses .. .. .. 6 4 2 Scholarships .. .. .. 228 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 38 10 0 Printing, stationery, stamps, and advertising .. .. .. 46 13 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 24 15 2 Fittings .. .. .. .. 18 8 6 Fencing, repairs, &e... .. .. 25 19 10 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 62 0 1 Expenses of teaching cookery .. 14 7 7 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 5 16 0 Music and tuning pianos .. .. 7 11 3 Pumping waste water from ram .. 418 10 Legal expenses .. .. .. 212 8 Sundries .. .. .. .. 614 2 Balance at end of year .. .. 738 15 11 £3,016 14 11 £3,016 14 11 F. de C. Malet, Chairman. F. G. Steadman, Registrar, Canterbury College. Examined and found correct. —A. H. Maclean, Inspector of Audit.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.- —English literature : Shakespeare's Macbeth, Richard III.; selections from Morris's Specimens of English Literature ; Morrell's English Literature from Dryden to Scott. Grammar : Morris's Smaller Historical Grammar, Mason's English Grammar. Composition : Essays, &c, on subjects from books read; correction of sentences. Latin: Horace's Odes, Book III.; Livy, greater part of Book I.; Cicero, second Philippic; sight translation ; Latin grammar, and prose composition; Bradley's Arnold and Abbott's Idioms; selections from Smith's Antiquities; general sketch of Roman history (Smith's Smaller History). French : Brachet's Public School French Grammar and Exercises; Bue's French Idioms; French prose composition; Racine's Athalie; Souvestre's Philosophe sur les Toits; La Tulipe Noire; Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ; Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr. Mathematics : Arithmetic, algebra, Euclid, trigonometry, as for junior University examination. Science: Botany and heat as for junior scholarship examination. Dress-cutting. Cooking. Swimming, Gymnastic exercises.