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NELSON COLLEGE FOB GIBLS. 2. Statement of Beceipts and Expenditube for the Year ending 31st December, 1887. Receipts. £ s. d. j Expenditure. £ s. d. To Grant from vote of the General Assembly 500 0 0 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 2,CG3 17 10 Paid by School Commissioners .. 330 0 0 Management— School fees .. .. .. 1,163 810 Salary .. .. .. .. 100 0 0 Boarding-school fees .. .. 648 2 0 Other office expenses .. .. 32 1 8 Edger scholarship .. .. .. 15 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,170 210 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 2,835 17 2 Boarding-school account .. .. 669 13 4 Examiners' foes .. .. .. 22 9 6 Scholarships .. .. .. 85 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 121 2 6 Gas .. .. .. .. 43 13 7 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 138 17 5 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 82 18 8 Interest on mortgages .. .. 324 0 0 Auditor's fees .. .. .. 5 5 0 Small repairs and sundry expenses .. 33 5 8 £5,492 B_o £5,492 8 0 Oswald Cubtis, Secretary. [Auditor's certificate is attached to accounts as kept in the college books.]

3. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes, College. Highest.— English: Spenser's Faerie Queen, Book II. ; Shakespeare's Bichard III. ; general literature. Latin : Virgil, JEneid, V.; Horace, Books 111. and IV.; Cicero, Pro Cluentio ; composition, grammar, unseen translation, Boman history. French: Precis de la Litt. Francaise, Le Tour de la France (Contanseau); unseen translation, grammar, composition. Greek: Elementary grammar, composition, and translation. Mathematics: Arithmetic, algebra, Euclid, trigonometry, .mechanics, and hydrostatics. Science : Physical chemistry. Loivest. —English : Geography, grammar, and history. Latin : Early part of Principia, Part I. French: Elementary grammar and composition. Mathematics: Arithmetic to decimal fractions.

4. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes, Gibls' College. Highest. —Mathematics: Arithmetic, the subject generally; algebra to quadratic equations, including indices and surds, the work for the junior scholarship examination, also ratio, proportion, and variation; Euclid, Books I. to IV., definitions of Book V., Book VI., riders, junior scholarship work; trigonometry to solution of triangles, junior scholarship work. English: Morris's Elementary Historical Grammar; sketch of the history of the English drama to the beginning of the reign of Queen Anne; study of the life and works of Longfellow; the dramatic works of Tennyson; study of Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing, and Borneo and Juliet; essay writing; English history, from Bevolution to Queen Victoria (textbooks), Epochs of English History). Geography : Political, physical, and commercial geography of Africa. Boman history: From Third Punic War to Battle of Actium. Latin: Virgil's iEneid, Book VI. and part of Book I.; unseen translation, grammar, and prose. French: Le Misanthrope (Moliere); Brachet's Elementary Grammar; Bug's Second French Book. German : Schiller's Maria Stuart (a part); also unseen translation from Schiller's and Goethe's German prose. Physical science: Elementary ideas, and chemistry of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon. Lowest. —Arithmetic : Simple and compound rules, reduction. English : Elementary grammar, parsing, and analysis, compositions on easy subjects, recitation, spelling, writing, and reading. History: First 150 years of Louise Creighton's History of England. Geography: General physical features of continents, with more important towns of Europe. Object-lessons on simple subjects. Latin: Declension of nouns, adjectives, and pronouns. French: Contes de Fees, Prince Cheri; easy sentences into French. Physical science: Elementary ideas of force, matter, properties of water, &c. N.B. —It must be understood that the school, being classified differently for different subjects, and great choice of subjects being allowed, the same girls do not necessarily do all the work set down for the lowest form; nor do the same do all the work set down for the highest form.

5. SCHOLARSHIPS HELD AT THE SCHOOL DURING THE LAST QuAETEB OF THE YeAB. College. Endou&d.—Newoome, £24; Bichmond, £24; Stafford, £20; Fell, £16; Tinline, £52 10s. Foundation. —First classical, £20; second classical, £10; third classical, £5; first mathematical, £20; second mathematical, £10; third mathematical, £5. Governors' Fees. —First modern languages, £12 10s.; first English literature, £12 10s.; second English literature, £12 10s. Provincial.— At £52 10s., 4; at £12 10s., 9. Simmons Prize.' — £6. Girls' College. Tinline.— £s2 12s. Edgcr.—2 at £15. Governors' Fees. —2 at £15. Provincial—At £52 10s., 2; at £12 125., 7. School Commissioners. —3 at £12 12s.