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Of eighteen pupils sent up from the College, one passed the Junior Scholarship Examination with credit, four matriculated on the Junior Scholarship papers, ten passed the Matriculation Examination, and one the Medical Preliminary. At the Girls' High School twenty-seven pupils sat for University examinations, three passed the examination for keeping first year's terms, one matriculated on the Junior Scholarship papers, and twenty passed the Matriculation Examination. The Governors must again refer to the heavy burden of rates and interest which presses upon them, and largely interferes with the efficient working of the College and Girls' High School. The College and High School buildings and reserves around them are rated by the City Council at £258 6s. Bd. per annum. The Governors should have been relieved of this burden by the amendment of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1891," and last year they urged the Government to bring in a Bill so to relieve them, but nothing was done. As to interest, the Governors have to pay £708 ss. 4d. annually on cost of buildings; they are virtually paying this sum as a rent for their school buildings, a position in which no other similar body is placed, and one from which the Governors strongly urge they should be relieved. Why should these institutions in Wellington be placed at such disadvantage as compared with similar institutions in other parts of the colony ? Year after year the Governors have brought these matters before the Government, year after year they have urged that under "The Education Beserves Act, 1877," reserves should be set apart for secondary as well as primary education, but without avail. In conclusion the Governors would again refer to the high standard of efficiency which the College and Girls' High School still maintain, notwithstanding all the difficulties mentioned above, and would again urge upon the Government the duty of rendering them some tangible assistance in carrying on their work. Wellington, 29th March, 1893. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. .. 1,671 18 8 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 2,460 19 5 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,736 4 1 Management— Prizes .. .. .. .. 21110 Office salary .. .. .. 100 0 0 Levin scholarship money .. .. 20 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. 18 16 8 Moore and Rhodes scholarship .. 31 10 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 2,175 8 4 Refunds .. .. .. .. 017 0 Examiners' fees , .. .. .. 52 10 0 Scholarship (Levin) .. .. .. 20 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 64 3 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 203 17 4 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 141 5 0 Site and buildings, new works .. .. 250 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 102 5 11 Insurance and taxes .. .. .. 94 11 6 Interest on current account .. .. 201 3 3 Endowments— Rates .. .. .. .. 57 0 8 Interest, reclaimed land .. .. 188 10 0 Chemicals .. .. .. .. 4 12 Furniture and apparatus .. .. 39 18 1 Interest on cost of buildings .. .. 710 11 4 Legal expenses .. .. .. 17 17 2 Dr. Balance at end of year .. .. 2,425 18 4 Barnicoat prize .. .. .. 5 0 0 £6,907 19 1 £6,907 19 1 C. P. Powles, Secretary.

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. College. Highest. —Latin: Virgil, iEneid, Book II.; Cicero's Orations, I. and 11. In Cat., and Boman history stories; sight translation; Bradley's Arnold, to Ex. XLI.; Kennedy's Latin Primer; Bryan's Caasarian Prose. Mathematics: Arithmetic, general; Algebra to permutations ; Trigonometry to solution of triangles. Euclid, Books I. to VI. English : Smith and Hall's grammar; Morris's Historical Grammar; Nichols' Comp. Exercises; Merchant of Venice; Chaucer's Prologue; paraphrasing and precis writing, and essays. French : Gasc's French Book, Part II.; Hatchett's French Beader. Science : Jago's Inorganic Chemistry and Garnett's Heat. Lowest. —Latin : Via Latina, exs. 1 to 38. Mathematics: Arithmetic (Hamblin Smith's) to simple interest; Algebra to division. Euclid, definitions. English: Grammar (Hall's elementary). Geographical Beader, pp. 1 to 76. Buckley's History of England, from the earliest times to Henry 11. Essays on easy subjects. Science : B. Stewart's Physics. French : Gasc's French Book, 1., exs. 1 to 40; Janan's French Beader, pp. 1 to 5. Girls' High School. Highest. —Latin: Translation (prepared)— Virgil's Eclogues; Cicero in Verrem, Book IV.; at sight from Caesar's Bell. Gall., Book VII., and Horace, Satires, Book I.; grammar of composition ; Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition ; Boman history and antiquities. Mathematics : Euclid, algebra, trigonometry, as for Junior Scholarship. French : Grammar—Havet, Part 1., pp. 167-187 ; Part IL, pp. 234 to 305; Brachet, pp. 46-72 and 98-117; composition—passages from 2—E. 9.