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The following shows the gradual increase during the last three years in the total number of students of this College who have obtained degrees in the University of New Zealand 1893, 144, 1894, 167, 1895, 188. The number of students attending each lecture during the last term was as follows : — Classics.— Pass Latin Translation, 36 , composition, 49. Greek Translation, 7 , composition, 7 Honours Latin Translation, 8 ; composition, 8. English Literature. —Pass lectures Literature of 1800 to 1850, 57, language of Milton, Shelley, and Carlyle, 56 , composition, 82, essay class, 58, art of Milton, Shelley, and Carlyle, 62. Honours lectures Philology, 46, criticism, 36. History.—(Sixth to Fourteenth Century), 31. Mathematics. —Pass lectures Pure mathematics, 42 , mechanics and hydrostatics, 18. Honours lectures Section 1., 6 , Section 11., 5 , Section 111., 3 , Section IV., 1, elementary mechanics and hydrostatics, 6. Chemistry and Physios.— Pass chemistry, 12, honours chemistry (organic), 5, teachers' chemical physics, 2 , pass physics, 14 practical physics (teachers'), 3, practical physics, 19 , honours physics, 6, elementary science (teachers' E and D), 38, laboratory practice (chemical), 21. Geology. —Junior, 8 , senior, 9. Biology.—General biology (Part I.), 14 , botany (Part I.), 6, zoology (Part II.), 5 , laboratory work, 18. French.— Pass lectures Composition, 39, authors, 22, grammar, 18, literature, 24. Honours lectures Composition, 1, authors, 2 , essay and literature, 6, philology, 6 , literature, 2. German. —Pass, 2 , honours, 1. Jurisprudence and Lazy.—Pass jurisprudence, 20 honours, 6, constitutional history, 19, LL.B. (2nd section), 4, LL.B. (3rd section), 3. Music— Eudiments of music and harmony (first-year students), 25, harmony (intermediate second-year students), 12 harmony (intermediate second-year students) evening class, 7 , harmony (intermediate third-year students), 11, harmony and counterpoint (advanced), 5. Twelve students from the College have this year obtained the degree of M.A. J. A. Erskine gained, at the same time, first-class honours in mathematics and first-class honours in physics, W H. Dawson, first-class honours in chemistry, and J Hight, first-class honours in languages and literature (English and French) , and C. A. Craig, second-class honours in mathematics, A. T Ngata and A. Dunn, second-class honours in political science, Misses J W Inglis, K. Isherwood, and B. P. Kichmond, second-class honours in languages and literature (English and French), and A. J Buchanan, second-class honours in languages and literature (English and Latin), and Miss E. M. Baber, third-class honours in languages and literature (English and French), and Miss E. E. Broome, third-class honours in languages and literature (English and Latin) Twenty-one students of the College have passed the final section of their B.A. examination Misses C. A. Barnicoat, L. E. Bing, A. M. Fordham, E, V yon Haast, G. H.Johnston, M. M. Kebbell, C. I. Locking, J Mulholland, M. E. Oswin, A. E. J Spencer, F H. Bakewell, H. 0. Craddock, G. Dalglish, A. Gray, G. J Lancaster, C. E. Mackay, P Menzies, F J Eolleston, J M. Waddell, F D. Waller, and H. Williams, whilst twenty-seven have passed the first section of their B.A. examination Misses E. Campbell, J. Cnrrie, L. Gibson, E. Graham, K. Gresson, C. E. Kirk, M. E. Lawrell, B. Martin, T Max, C. B. Mills, M. Williamson, E. G. Atkinson, S. A. Atkinson, W D. Bean, A. E. Flower,' C. W Garrard, A. G. Henderson, K. Kippenberger, F Milner, T A. Murphy, T E. Quill, A. W. Shrimpton, J. Sutherland, J Waddell, A. H. Wall, J Williamson, and W Wilson. E. Eutherford, M.A., and E. S. Buchanan, M.A., also obtained the degree of B.Sc. J Innes, M.A., obtained the degree of LL.D., and D. Bates, A. Dunn, A. R. Kirk, and C. P Knight, that of LL.B. T A. Murphy also passed the first section of the LL.B. examination, and A. G. Muir passed the first section of the B.Sc. examination, whilst he and A. E. Craddock passed the first section of the B.Sc. (engineering) examination, T. R. Burt the second section, and G A. Julius and J Parr the third. G. Lancaster gained the senior scholarship in mathematics, A. Gray that in physics, and H. O. Craddock, that in Greek. A. G. Henderson gained the Bowen prize for 1894, for an essay on " The Causes of British Success in the Eivalry with Other Powers for Supremacy in India." The College exhibitions, given for excellence in honours work at the College annual examinations, were awarded as follows For Latin, J M. Waddell, for English, Miss J Mulholland and F J Wilkes, equal; for mathematics, C. E. Mackay and G. Lancaster, equal, for experimental science', G Lancaster and A. Gray, equal, for natural science, Miss M. E. Lawrell; for German, Miss E. V yon Haast. C. A. Pemberton passed the intermediate medical examination. The graduates of the University of New Zealand who have been educated at the College now number 188, eighty-four of whom have obtained the degree of M.A., ninety-six the degree of 8.A., six that of LL.B, and two that of B.Sc. Nine arts graduates have also obtained the degree of LL.B., eight that of B.Sc, and two that of LL.D. Of the Masters of Arts, four gained double first-class honours, one a double first-class and a second, one a first-class and a second, one a first-class in arts and a second-class in science, thirty-three first-class honours, two double second, twenty-six second-, and fifteen third-class; and of the Bachelors of Science one gained second-class. Thus, out of 422 who have taken degrees in the University of New Zealand (exclusive of medical degrees, for which this College cannot enter candidates), 188 belong to Canterbury College, out of the 176 who have taken the M.A., ninety-three belong to it, and of the sixty-six who have taken first-class honours, forty-one belong to it. Of the 113 senior and third-year and John Tinline scholarships awarded by the University of New Zealand during the last eighteen years—the period during which the present scholarship regulations have been in force—seventy have been awarded to students of Canterbury College. Of the twenty Bowen prizes which have been awarded by the University for an essay on a subject connected with English History, and open to all undergraduates of the University of New Zealand, fourteen have been gained by students trained in