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3. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure of the Nelson College for Girls for the Year ending 31st December, 1891. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Tuition Account .. .. .. 1,186 19 1 By Tuition Account .. .. .. 793 10 11 Boarding Account .. .. .. 411 11 7 Boarding Account .. .. .. 531 1 9 Edger Scholarships .. .. .. 35 0 0 Stationery Account .. .. .. 53 14 3 Tinline Scholarship .. .. .. 40 0 0 Edger Scholarships .. .. .. 30 0 0 Governors' Fees Scholarships .. .. 30 0 0 Miscellaneous Expenses— Printing and advertising .. .. 35 0 9 Fire insurance .. .. .. 42 0 0 City rates .. .. .. .. 31 12 4 Gas Account .. .. .. 29 15 2 Overdraft at the Bank of New Examiners' fees .. .. .. 36 7 0 Zealand on the 31st De- Proportion of office expenses and law cember, 1891 .. £184 7 3 costs .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Cheques not presented 8 16 Auditors' fees . .. .. .. 5 5 0 192 8 9 Small repairs .. .. .. 14 14 3 (Being amount transferred to Endowment Sundry expenses .. .. .. 218 0 Account.) Secretary's salary .. .. .. 100 0 0 £1,825 19 5 £1,825 19 5 Oswald Cuiitis, Secretary. We hereby certify that we have examined the above accounts and compared them with the several vouchers relating thereto, and have found them correct. J. T. Catley, ) . ~, Geo. Hodgson, ) Audltors -

4. Woek Done by Highest and Lowest Forms. College. Highest. —Latin : Virgil—Georgics, Book II.; iEneid, Book VIII. ; Horace—Odes, Books I. and II.; Epistles, Book I.; Livy—Book VIII., and general readings at sight over other books; Ceesar —De Bell. Gall., Books 111. and IV.; composition—Bradley's "Aids to Latin Prose," Eoman History. Greek: Homer, Iliad, Book I.; Plato, " Apologia Socratis," and portion of " Crito;" composition— Sidgwick. French: Guizot, " Alfred le Grand ;" Racine, " Athalie ;" Blouet's Classbook of French Composition. Mathematics —Trigonometry: Lock, to include solutions and properties of triangles. Algebra: Aldis, to include binomial theorem. Geometry: Books I. to VI., Hall and Stevens; Statics and Dynamics ; Todhunter's Mechanics ; Hydrostatics, Besant. Science—Chemistry: Nonmetals, Metals, and Atomic Theory; Eoscoe's Tex-t-book of Science. Physics: Sound, light, heat; Wright's Elementary Science Text-book. English—Grammar : Smith and Hall's English Grammar; Morris's Historical Outlines; Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader. Composition: As for Junior Scholarship Examination. Literature: Shakespeare's Tempest, and King Lear; George Eliot's Romola; the chief authors of the Commonwealth Period. History: Commonwealth Period in Green. Lowest. —Latin : Principia Latina, Part 1., about half the book. English : Lady of the Lake ; Cantos I. and II.; Hall's Primary English Grammar; Hughes'Elementary Physical Geography; Edith Thompson's History of England, William I. to Richard 111., inclusive ; writing and dictation. Arithmetic : Lock, about half the book. Girls. Highest. —Mathematics —Arithmetic : The whole subject. Algebra :To the end of Progressions. Euclid : Books I. to VI. Trigonometry: Lock's Smaller Trigonometry, to the end of the solution of triangles. Latin—Grammar : Bradley's Arnold; Latin prose composition; translation —Offisar, Book IV., Georgics, II.; Livy, Book VIII; translation at sight. English Grammar: Morris's smaller Historical English Grammar ; Abbott's How to Write Clearly ; Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for English People ; composition ; essays on subjects from books read ; correction of sentences, &C. Literature: Lectures on the Commonwealth Period; Shakespeare's Tempest, and King Lear ; George Eliot's Romola. French —Grammar : Book 11., Chardenal and Brachet's Public School Grammar; prose selections from Blouet; translation—Athalie, Andromaque, Oraisons, Funebres (Bossuet). Science: Electricity and magnetism. History: Epochs of English History; the Settlement of the Constitution; England and the American War. Geography: Longmans' Geography. Class-singing. Sewing. Club exercises. Lowest. —English —Reading: Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare ; spelling; writing ; composition. Grammar: Definitions of parts of speech; easy parsing. French: Chardenal, Part I. to lesson 100. History: Gardiner's, Part 11., to the end of George 11. Geography: General geography of the world, New Zealand more particularly. Object-lessons. Sewing. Class-singing. Club e xercises.