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Mechanics of Machinery. Conversion and transmission of motion; link work ; the drag-link, crank and connecting-rod Paeucelliers , straight-line motion; Watt's parallel motion; bolt, rope, and frictional gearing; spur-gearing; the design of wheel-teeth ; mortice, mitre, screw, and skew gearing; the universal joint; general mill gearing; the turbine and hydraulic engines; general machine problems. Strength of Materials, and Iron Bridge and Boof Construction. The physical nature of the various metals used in engineering work, their preparation and treatment; stress —tensile, compressive, shearing, and torsional ; elastic limit, absolute strength, modulus of elasticity, permanent set; strength and design of pinned, bolted, cottered, and rivetted joints; stress in pillars, beams, and various types of girders and roofs; bridge construction and design; stress in vessels subjected to fluid pressure ; stress in machines. Principles of Civil Engineering. Section A. — Borough Engineering : Laying-out and construction of roads; location of towns; street formation, paving, channelling, and curbing; surface-drainage and sewerage; warming and lighting public buildings, ventilation; water conservation and supply ; irrigation. Section B. — Bailway Engineering : Reconnaissance, location, grades, gauge and curves, earthwork, bridges, tunnelling; permanent-way, switches, crossings, signalling arrangements; arrangement of station- and goods-yards, engine-sheds, water-cranes, coal-stages, and turntables; methods of working steep gradients by rack, rope, and central-rail systems; light railways and street tramways, for horse, steam, cable, and electric traction. Section G. — Marine Engineering : Internal navigation ; river conservation and improvement; canal construction and details, locks, inclined planes, and lifts ; ship-canals, harbour-works?, wharves, docks, slips, graving-docks, breakwaters, lighthouses, &c. Section t>. — Conduct of Work : General office routine ; preparation of specifications and working "drawings ; taking out quantities ; estimating ; preparation and supervision of contracts. Building Construction. Section A. — General Principles : General principles in relation to materials, foundations, walls, beams, arches, floors, and roofs. Section B. —Principles of constructive design; constructive details in carpentry, joinery, and masonry ; bridge-construction in timber and stone ; roof-construction. Surveying — Theoretical and Practical. Measurement of lines and angles with the chain, chain triangulation; simple topographical work, keeping field-book, calculation of areas, levelling; division of earth's surface by meridians and parallels ; traversing with chain and theodolite ; calculation of areas by mean longitudes ; advanced topographical surveying; minor triangulation; advanced levelling; telemetry and use of plane table; river and marine surveying; Geodetic survey, primary triangulations, meridianal circuits; American and New Zealand systems of setting out Crown lands; engineering surveys; calculation of altitudes, measurement of earth-work, gauging of rivers. Certificates will be granted to students who attend a course of lectures and pass a satisfactory examination in any of the above subjects.

i STATEMENT OF THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CANTERBURY COLLEGE FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1891. School of Agriculture, Capital Account. Receipts. & s. d. Expenditure. £s. & To Balance, Ist. Jan., 1891 .. .. 53,204 16 1 By Share of rates and insurance on Saxton's estate .. .. .. 18 17 5 Cost of inspecting Burkes land .. 1 17 0 Legal expenses for 1891 .(mortgages) .. 8 9 7 Balance .. .. .. .. 53,175 12 1 £53,204 16 1 £53,204 16 1 To Balance, Ist Jan., 1892 .. ..£53,175 12 1 School of Agriculture, Building Account. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 89 2 2 By Balance, Ist Jan., 1891 .. .. 89 2 2 By Balance, Ist Jan., 1892 .. .. £89 2 2