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REPORT ON GREYMOUTH DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL. (Number of scholars on roll: —Passed Standard VI.: M., 10; F., 12: total, 22.)

French. —Two papers were excellent, four very good, two good, and one was satisfactory. General result, very good. Latin. —One paper was excellent, two were very good, six good, and one was satisfactory. General result, good. English. —Two papers were excellent, two very good, four satisfactory, four fair, one was weak, and one very weak. General result, satisfactory. History. —No candidates sat for this paper. Euclid. —Five papers were excellent, six very good, two good, and one was satisfactory General result, very good. Geography. —One paper was very good, four were good, four satisfactory, three fair, and three weak. General result, satisfactory. Algebra. — Six papers were excellent, five very good, one was good, and three were satisfactory. General result, very good. Arithmetic. —Two papers were excellent, three very good, two good, four satisfactory, and three very weak. General result, satisfactory. Trigonometry and Mechanics. —One paper was good. Candidates for Matriculation and Civil Service did not sit for this examination, as the two came so close together ; otherwise the results would have appeared even better than they do in the present lists. William L. F. Fetch, M.A., Inspector.

Subject taught. Class. Number in each Class. Number present at Examination. Work done during the year. (atin I. 5 0 Caesar's Gallic War, Book I. ; Principia Latina, Part II. (the Roman history); Bevised Latin Primer; Principia Latina, Part IV., to exercise 46. Principia Latina, Part II. (fables, anecdotes, and mythology) ; Via Latina, to exercise 80. Principia Latina, Part I., to exercise 33. Principia Latina, Part I., to exercise 21; and Grammar, to exercise 33. The prose of Macmillan's French Reader, Second Year ; Bue, II. The prose of Macmillan's French Reader, First Year ; Bue, I. Bue, I., to lesson 50, but not the conversation ; the four regular verbs; and the Third Part. Nichol and Meiklejohn's Composition ; Campbell's Higher English ; Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present, to page 221 ; Longmans' Composition; Hamlet (Blackie's Junior). Smith's English Grammar; Nesfield's English Grammar, to page 221 ; Longman's Composition ; Hamlet (Blackie's Junior). Smith's English Grammar, to end of Part III.; Longmans' Composition, exercises 76 to 95; Midsummer Night's Dream, Acts I. and II. (Blackie's Junior). Gardiner's, Vol. III. (1689-1837). Books I.-IV. ; easy deductions. Books I. and II.; easy deductions. Book I., to proposition 31 ; easy deductions Political—the world, except Asia ; physical— subject generally. To end of progressions. To end of quadratic equations. To end of simple equations (Matriculation or Civil Service standard). Four rules, equations, and easy fractions. Subject generally (Matriculation or Civil Service standard). Commercial rules. II. 3 3 III. IV. 6 1 6 1 French ... I. 4 0 II. 3 3 English... III. 6 6 I. 5 0 5 5 II. III. 9 9 History Euclid ... I. I. II. III. I. 5 1 3 10 Iβ 0 1 3 10 15 Geography Algebra... I. II. III. 1 4 4 1 0 4 Arithmetic IV. I. 10 4 10 4 II. 10 10