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University and Colleger. The report of the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand is a separate paper (E.-6). The number of graduates admitted or qualified for admission now amounts to 756. Of this number, 351 have the degree of B.A. alone; 25 B.Sc. alone; 25 LL.B. alone; 2 B.Sc. in Engineering alone; 1 M.B. alone; 41 M.B and Ch.B. alone; 2 Mus. Bac. alone; 215 M.A. alone; 4 LL.D. alone; 5 M.D. alone; and 1 D.Sc. alone. The graduates upon whom degrees in more than one faculty have been conferred are : B.A. and B.Sc, 7 ; B.A. and LL.B., 18; 8.A., M.B. and Ch.B., 5 ; 8.A., B.Sc. and M.8., Ch.B., 2; B.Sc. and M.8., Ch.B., 1; M.A. and B.Sc, 25 ; M.A. and B.Sc. in Engineering, 1; M.A. and LL.B., 16; M.A. and D.Sc, 4; M.A. and M.8., Ch.B., 2; M.A. and LL.D., 3. The number of degrees authorised to be conferred after the examinations of 1900 was 86: 8.A., 46; B.Sc, 10; LL.B., 3; M.8., 1; M.B. and Ch.B., 7; M.A., 18; D.Sc, 1. As appears by the Chancellor's report, the number of candidates who were examined at the usual examinations in November and December, 1900, and in January and April, 1901, in the faculties of arts, science, medicine, law, and music, and for admission to the legal profession, was 1,282. The number of students at affiliated colleges in 1900 was 805, of whom 300 were women. Of these students, 536 were matriculated at the University of New Zealand. The numbers in attendance at the several colleges are as follows: University of Otago, 164 men and 53 women matriculated, and 39 men and 1 woman not matriculated; at Canterbury College, 75 men and 50 women matriculated, and 18 men and 75 women not matriculated; at Auckland University College, 64 men and 36 women matriculated, and 49 men and 42 women not matriculated; and at Victoria College, 61 men and 33 women matriculated, and 35 men and 10 -women not matriculated. The reports of these colleges are papers E.-7, E.-8, E.-9, and E.-10 respectively. "The Univeesity Endowment Act, 1868." The income accrued under this Act, and applicable to purposes of higher education yet to be determined by Parliament, amounted, on the 31st March, 1901, to £5,321 16s. 3d., as follows: Canterbury Eeserves, £1,973 7s. 4d.; Westland, £239 12s. 6d.; Taranaki, £3,108 16s. sd. Civil Sebvice Examinations. As usual the Civil Service Examinations were conducted this year (in January) by the Education Department simultaneously with the examination for teachers' certificates. There were 473 candidates for the Junior Civil Service Examination, and the names of 251 were published in order of merit in the Gazette of the 28th February. For the Senior Civil Service Examination there were 99 candidates, of whom 32 passed. Further particulars are given in the report of the examination (E.-1a). Chatham Islands. In the Chatham Islands during 1900 instruction was given by three teachers and two assistants at six different centres, five on the main island and one on Pitt Island. The number on the roll at the end of the year was 55 ; the working average attendance, 50. The total expenditure was £374 12s. lid. — namely, salaries and allowances, £286 9s. Bd.; building material, school furniture and requisites, and repairs, £56 11s. 9d; inspection, £31 11s. 6d. In order to afford opportunities for clever children in these islands to continue their education beyond a primary school course, the Government has offered to give any boy or girl qualifying under specified conditions a scholarship tenable at one of the recognised secondary schools in New Zealand, v—E. 1.