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Lyttelton Times, Volume XIII, Issue 752, 21 January 1860, Page 5

_EX ASHBURTON. ON SALE AT CANTERBURY HOUSE, CANTERBURY STREET. A Largo and varied assortment of General Drapery and Fancy Goods,comprising Muslin Dresses in groat variety Ribbons Prints Lace Artificial Flowers Gloves Stays Millinery Spotted and Figured Mualins Scarfs and Shawls Gipney Cloaks Neck ties Waist Bolts And other Goods. MRS. FORD. HARVEST ALE. JOHN MAY, Brewer, Chrisfchurch, is prepared to supply harvest ale, of good quality, at TWO SHILLINGS f- GALLON. TENDERS FOR PRINTING. fT\ENDERS for printing for the present JL year will be received at this office up to Saturday, the 29th January, instant. Separate tenders must be mtide for— 1. Printing the Provincial Government Gazette 2. Printing Ordinances of the Provincial-Council 3. Printing Drafts of Bills for the Provincial Council . 4. Printing Official Forms and Occasional Papers Separate contracts will be made for each. The government or the contractor to be at liberty to terminate the contract by three months' notice in writing on either side. The Government will not be bound to accept the lowest tender. THOMAS WM. MAUDE, For the Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary' Office, Christchurch, January 17,1860, TO BOOT AND SHOE MAKERS. J SUCKLING, Leather Seller and Dealer • in Grindery, Cashel Street (opposite Mr. Barnard's Auction Rooms),—Has now for Sale an assortment of English Kips and Calf Skins, Grafts and long Fronts, &c, and all kinds of Grindery. Also a quantity of ready closed uppers. Terms Cash. PIGEON BAY BOARDING SCHOOL AND ACADEMY, CONDUCTED BY JAMES W. GILLESPIE, Trained and First Class Certificated Master; for Ten Years Head Master of the Free Church Academy, Airdrie, Scotland. THE above Institution will be re-opened after the Holidays, on MONDAY, January 30th, at 9 o'clock. The course of instruction includes English in all its branches, French, Latin, Greek and Mathematics ; and while unremitting attention is given to secure advanced and accurate scholarship in every subject, special care is taken to form, if possible, in each pupil, the elements of a manly, moral, and religious character. The subjoined selection from the examination papers set at Christmas last, and creditably answered, will serve to give some idea of the actual condition of the school a.t the end of the first nine months of the present management. Only a few additional boarders can be at present . accommodated. Terms, payable quarterly, in advance, are— For pupils under ten, £11 per quarter, of 12 weeks Do. over ten, £12 do. do. Do. fourteen, £13 do. do These charges include everything except school books. Wheii two or more pupils belong to one family, a reduction is allowed. N.B. —A boat or craft will (weather permitting) leave Lyttelton for Pigeon Bay on the morning of Saturday, January 28, for the conveyance of intending boarders. I. EUCLID (Pott's Edition is Text Book.) I—Define a right angle, a scalene triangle, and a circle 2_Write a full proof of the Theorem "Upon the same base and upon the same side of it, there cannot be two triangles that have their sides which are terminated in one extremity of the' base equal to one another, and likewise those which are terminated in the other extremity." 3 —The angles which one straight line makes with another upon one side of it, are either two right angles or are together equal to two right angles. 11. HIGHER ARITHMETICS ALGEBRA. Text Books in Arithmetic, Barnard Smith's, Professor J. Thomson's, Davidson's, Scott's, and Colenso's. In Algebra, Barnard' Smith's, Professor Hall's, Lund's edition of Wood's, and Colenso's. I—Bought 2cwt. 3qrs. 141bs. for £13 2s. 7d. ; at what must I retail it per lb. to gain £2 6s. on the whole? 2—lt' 8 horses eat 40 Guineas' worth of hay in 6 months, hay being at Bd. per stone; how muck will it take to maintain 7 horses for 11 months with hay at sd. the stone ? 3—Find by practice, with correct fraction, the value of 31 tons Bcwt; 131bs. 5 at £57 17s. 9d. the ton. 4—Find interest on £287 6s. Bd., from 11th November to 15th May, at £5 per cent. 5—.00005 -r 25. 6 —Find area of a four-sided field, of which the diagonal is 750 links and perpendiculars on it from opposite angles 280 and 408 links. 7—Solve the Equation : 8.4x—7.6 = 2.2 x *$• 10 111. ENGLISH GRAMMAR (advanced.) I—»While through the West, where sinks the crimson day, Meek twilight slowly sails and waves, her banners gray." Treat the above two lines thus:— a —Write in prose order. &_Parse fully and syntactically the Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs. .c—-Name and classify the adverbs, pointing out their use and connection in each case. d— Notice and point out any figures of Rhetoric. 2—Write the 2nd pers. sing. pies. Indie, of each of the verbs, stoop, stop, rub, daub, hope, travel. 3_Write at length the rules of Syntax which are violated in the following expressions:— a— The number of the names were great. b— Him being absent we did not go. c—A horse, ass and sheep. d—-Yle was as great a sheep-farmer as a merchant. 4_Wnte a letter of from 12 to 20 lines, announcing to your parents the close of the session and your return for the holidays. IV. GEOGRAPHY. l_Give the circumference and diameter of the earth in English miles. 2—What is latitudeP Longitude? The Rational Horizon ? Aphelion P , 3—Write in some kind of order, and give the exact situations of—a. Islands of Europe, b. Seas, Bnv* and Gulfs of Asia. c. Capws of Africa. d, 'Lakes of North America* Capitol Citig* of