E.—7

1888. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: THE CANTERBURY COLLEGE (PAPERS RELATING TO). [In Continuation of E.-7, 1887.]

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

I.—STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS. At the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College, held on the 11th July, 1888, the Chairman's statement of the progress made and the work done in the several departments during the year was read, as follows : — The College. The number of matriculated students attending the classes during the past year was 140, as against 117 for the previous year. The total number of matriculated and non-matriculated students attending lectures in 1887-88 was 313. The number of students attending each lecture during the last term was as follows :— Classics. —Pass Latin: Translation, 45; composition, 47. Greek: Translation, 7; composition, 7. Honours, Latin : Translation, 13 ; composition, 14. Latin, teachers' class, 19. English Literature. —Queen Anne literature, 63; language of Shakespeare and Charles Lamb, 62 ; composition, 123 ; essay class, 111; art of Shakespeare and Charles Lamb, 115 ; philology, 26 ; criticism, 32 ; history, 33. Mathematics. —Lower division, 36; upper division, 3 ; mechanics and hydrostatics, 19; advanced mathematics, 3. Chemistry and Physics.- —Pass chemistry, 23 ; teachers' chemistry, 6; honours chemistry, 4; chemistry (first principles), 8; pass physics, 31; teachers' physics, 15 ; elementary science, 26 ; laboratory practice, 16. Geology. —Junior, 9 ; senior, 4. Biology. —Junior botany, 7; senior botany, 9; pass biology, 7. Laboratory practice : Senior botany, 8 ; junior botany, 3. French, 13. German, 1. Jurisprudence and Law. —Jurisprudence, 8 ; constitutional history, 7; law (third section), 1; law (second section), 2. Civil Engineering. —Land surveying and levelling, 3 ; principles of civil engineering, 3; building construction, 3 ; field instruction in surveying, 3. Mechanical Engineering . — Freehand and mechanical drawing, 19; practical geometry and mechanical drawing, 19 ; lectures on the steam-engine, 18. Five students from the college have this year obtained the degree of M.A. Miss B. E. Gibson and A. E. Meek gained, at the same time, first-class honours in languages, and A. G. Talbot first-class in mathematics and first-class in physical science, and Miss M. Lorimer second-class honours in languages, and Miss M. V. Gibson third-class in languages. Twelve students of the college have passed the final section of their B.A. examination, and had the degree conferred upon them (Misses M. Aikman, E. Gribben, A. Mills, M. Mills, and Mrs. Hurst-Seager, and Messrs. 0. T. J. Alpers, A. Heine, G. H. Merton, J. H. Smith, E. Speight, and W. F. Ward, and, under the teachers' regulation, T. Eitchie), whilst thirteen have passed the first section of their B.A. examination (Misses I. Ecclesfield, P. Myers, M. Sword, A. Tindel, and L. Williams, and Messrs. T. W. Ambrose, H. S. Cocks, P. J. Cocks, J. Firth, C. D. Hardie, J. M. Marshall, J. H. Turner, and T. S. Weston), and one has passed the first section of the LL.B. examination (A. E. Kirk). Five senior scholarships of the six offered by the New Zealand University this year were awarded, and four of them were gained by students of this college : the Political Science Scholarship by Miss A. Mills, the Latin and English Scholarship by W. F. Ward, the Latin and Greek Scholarship by J. H. Smith, and the Mathematics Scholarship by E. Speight. The John Tinline Scholarship, for excellence in English language and literature, was gained by 0. T. J. Alpers, of this college. The college exhibitions, given for excellence in honours work at the college annual examination, were awarded as follows : For Latin, W.F. Ward ; for English, 0. T. J. Alpers; for mathematics, J. M. Marshall; for experimental science, E. Speight; for biology, Miss L. Williams; for political science, Miss A. E. Mills. The graduates of the University of New Zealand who have been educated at the college now number seventy, thirty-five of whom have obtained the degree of M.A., and thirty-five I—B. 7.