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trial schools, has submitted its accounts for 1889, and these, together with a report from the Trustees, are printed, and will be submitted to Parliament (E.-3a) Tbe expenditure, as might be expected, is declining, and the net cost to the Government is being more than proportionately diminished. The total cost in 1888 was £13,697 15s. lid.; for 1889 the cost is ,£11,630 19s. 4d., showing a reduction of more than ,£2,000. The net cost is reduced by a further difference of £750. The cost of the Government schools for the year is shown in Table W.

TABLE W. —Cost of Government Schools, 1889.

The expenditure of the Government in connection with the " private " industrial schools is shown in Table X. The "local" school at the Thames makes no claim on the department.

TABLE X.—Government Expenditure on Private Schools, 1889.

Univeksity and Affiliated Colleges. The report presented by the Chancellor of the New Zealand University to His Excellency the Governor is printed as a parliamentary paper (8.-5). It appears from this report that, as a result of the examinations held in November, 1889, the University has conferred degrees on 55 candidates, —on 20 the degree of M.A., on 27 the degree of 8.A., on 3 the degree of B.Sc, and on 5 the degree of M.B. The number of graduates admitted by examination is now 234, as follows : M.A., 82; M.A. and LL.D., 1; M.A. and LL.B., 4 ; M.A. and B.Sc, 6 ; 8.A., 122; B.A. and LL.B., 7; B.A. and M.8., 1; LL.D., 1; LL.B., 1; M.D., 2; M.8., 7. The number of undergraduates now on the books of the University is 1,051. The number of students in attendance in 1889 at the institutions affiliated to the University, as reported by those institutions, was 588, including 256 not matriculated, as follows : Auckland University College, 113 (59 not matriculated) ; Canterbury College, 279 (139 not matriculated); Otago University, 196 (58 not matriculated). The reports of these institutions are printed as separate papers (E.-8, E.-7, E.-6). Secondaey Schools. The reports of the governing bodies of the several high schools or grammar schools are printed in a separate paper (E.-9). The principal statistics of the schools are exhibited in Table Y.

• School. Cost of School. | Cost of boarding out. Recoveries. i £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. Auckland .. .. .. j 454 17 7 538 4 6 219 15 2 Kohimarama .. .. .. 1,510 2 7 1,056 18 10 719 14 1 Burnham .. .. .. 3,047 2 0 3,838 10 10 2,405 16 9 Daversham .. .. ..I 3,266 13 0 3,623 8 11 4,559 10 3 Totals .. .. 8,278 15 2 9,057 8 1 7,904 10 3 Net Cost. £ s. d. 773 6 11 1,847 7 4 4,479 16 1 2,330 11 8 9,431 2 0 Salary and expenses of Visiting Officer 259 8 4 Total 9,690 10 4

School. I Payments. Recoveries. Net Expenditure by Government. it. Mary's, Ponsonby (Auckland) it. Joseph's, Wellington St. Mary's, Nelson Totals M s. d, £ s. d. 542 8 0 24 13 0 129 5 0 40 16 4 1,555 8 3 221 2 11 2,227 1 8 286 12 3 £ s. d. 517 15 0 88 8 8 1,334 5 4 1,940 9 0 2,227 1 3