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No candidate will be elected to any of the above scholarships until he has submitted to the Bursar certificates (1) of date of birth, and (2) of membership of the Church of England or of some Church in communion with it, the latter must be signed by a clergyman holding the license of the Bishop. Proof of good character and conduct must also be supplied, if required. The Junior and Senior Scholarships given by the Board of Education are tenable in the school, and may be held together with Somes Scholarships. It will be seen that a capable and diligent boy may, by winning in succession Entrance, Junior, and Senior Somes Scholarships, secure free education, with considerable assistance, if he be a boarder, towards the cost of maintenance, from an early age until he has reached the limit of age for Junior University Scholarships. Butler and Beay Foundation. —Exhibitions are given to the sons of clergy ministering in the Diocese of Christchurch, and to others who may require assistance, at the discretion of the governing body ; also six exhibitions, of £2 a term, to members of the chapel choir Any of the above scholarships may be terminated at the end of any term if the scholar fails to obtain from the Head-master a certificate of regular attendance, good conduct, and satisfactory progress, or at any time for flagrant misconduct. On the other hand scholarships may, for special cause, be extended by the governing body beyond the time for which they were originally granted.

CHRISTCHURCH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance 472 2 2 By Management—Office salary 80 0 0 Current income from reserves 2,748 9 8 Teachers'salaries and allowances . 3,734 19 4 School fees 1,859 0 6 Examinations— Interest on current account 30 11 2 Examiners' fees 66 10 3 Other expenses . 7 14 6 Scholarships 15 0 0 •' Prizes 38 2 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising, including books, stamps, and telegrams 226 10 10 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 64 6 11 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works 400 18 8 Fencing, repairs, &c. 90 2 1 Insurance 27 18 2 Hire of tables, chairs, &o. 14 8 6 Laboratory—Chemicals and apparatus 55 7 9 Expenses of Workshop Carpenters' wages, materials, and tools 47 17 1 Cricket club and cadet corps, annual grants 45 0 0 Magic-lantern and slides 38 13 6 Pumping out and cleaning bath 12 7 9 Laying out football ground 25 4 0 Grant to school library 5 0 0 Legal expenses .. .. 11 18 2 Inspecting reserves and advertising 106 15 11 Drainage-work on Reserve 2009 50 0 0 Re-pegging and fencing Reserve 1223 15 0 0 Interest on loan 325 0 0 Dr. balance at end of year 409 6 6 Sundries .. 14 14 7 £5,519 10 0 £5,519 10 0 H. B. Webb, Chairman. A. Ceaceoft Wilson, Begistrar.

2. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin Cicero, Actio Prima (King, C. P S.), Ovid, Selections by Shuckburgh (Macmillan) , History of Borne (Smith) , Bradley's Arnold, Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose, Simpson's Caesarian Prose unseen pieces from various authors, critical questions. English Tennyson, selections (Macmillan) Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book I. (C.P S.) Bacon's Essays (Selby, Macmillan) , Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings (Hale, Longmans) , Longmans' Handbook of English Literature, Part 11. (Chaucer to Shakespeare), Mason s English Grammar, Abbott's How to Write Clearly, paraphrase, essays. French Sandeau, Mademoiselle de la Seigliere , Malot, Sans Famille , Loti, Pecheur dTslande Macmillan's Progressive French Course, Part 11. , Eve and Beaudais', Wellington School Grammar, unseen pieces. Mathematics (Junior Scholarship Standard) Hall and Steven's Euclid, Books I. to VI. , Hall and Knight's Algebra, Lock's Elementary Trigonometry English history Bansome's Short History of England, period 1603-1714. Geography Longmans' School Geography for Australasia. Chemistry (as for Junior Scholarship) Jago's Inorganic Chemistry Physics Heat (as for Junior Scholarship), Garnett's Heat, Deschanel's Heat. Greek Abbott and Mansfield's Greek Grammar Primer, to end of accidence , Abbott's Arnold's Greek Prose (Bivington s), 30 exercises Xenophon, Cyropcedia, selections (Macmillan, Elementary Classics), Euripides, Alcestis (Scenes from), A. Sidgwick (Bivington's). Loiuest. —Latin: 1 Abbott's Via Latina, Exercises 1-30 , 2. Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course (declensions). English Royal Reader No. 4 , Our Friends of the Farm , Longmans' Junior School Grammar , spelling, dictation, transcription, easy composition. French First French Reader and