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Balclutha District High School.

■ English. —Three papers were very good, eight were good, ten satisfactory, three fair, and two poor. Latin. —Of Class 1., three pupils passed an excellent, three a good, and all the rest except one a satisfactory examination. All the pupils of Class 11. except one gained very high marks, the mean being 90 per cent. French. —One of the pupils of Class I. passed a good and the other a satisfactory examination. Of Class 11., one pupil cleared the paper, four did very well, three well, one satisfactorily, and one poorly. Euclid. —Of Class 1., one pupil did very well, seven well, three fairly, and three poorly; and of Class 11., seven did very well, two well, and four poorly. Algebra. —All the pupils of Class I. except one, and eight of those of Class 11,, passed a very good examination; and of the remaining pupils of Class 11. three passed a good and three a poor examination.

Lawrence District High School.

English.- —Ten pupils passed a good, three a satisfactory, and three a moderate examination in the work read. Latin. —ln all the classes very high marks were gained—a mean of 86 per cent, in Class 1., of 84 per cent, in Class 11., and of 83 per cent, in Class 111. French. —Of the pupils of Class 1., only two gained less than 60 per cent, of the marks, three gained over 80 per cent., and five over 70 per cent. The mean of the marks gained by Class 11. was 91 per cent., a very good result. The pupils of Class 111. were examined orally. They showed a sound knowledge of the work they had read.

Subject. Class. Number in Class. Number examined. Work read. English Latin French I, II. I. I. 30 .1.2 14 2 26 12 12 2 Merchant of Venice (Nelson's series); prose selections from Defoe, Swift, Addison, Sterne, Goldsmith, Scott, and Macaulay in Macmillan's Sixth Eeader, studied for points of style; Goyen's Principles of English Composition. Principia Latina, Part I., and Principia Latina, Part I J., pages 39 to 51. Principia Latina, Part I., pages 1 to 36, and the four conjugations, Act. Voice. Chardenal's Second French Course to Exercise 42, and pages 120 to 124. Chardenal's First French Course to Exercise 42, and verbs avoir and etre. Chardenal's First French Course to Exercise 56. Books I., II., and III., and easy exercises in Book I. Book I., and Definitions. Hamblin Smith's Algebra to page 154. Hamblin Smith's Algebra to page 123. II. 12 10 Euclid III. I. II. I. II. 4 13 16 10 18 13 14 9 14 Algebra

Subject. Class. Number in Class. Number examined. Work read. English Latin French I. I. II. III. I. II. III. I. II. 24 6 8 12 11 4 16 5 10 16 4 5 9 11 4 16 5 9 Merchant of Venice (Eolfe), Smith's Grammar and Composition, Parts I., II., III., and IV. Smith's Principia Latina, Part II.; History, Book V. ; Allen's Grammar. Smith's Principia Latina, Part I., and Book III. of the History in Part II. Smith's Principia Latina, Part I., to page 36. Exercises and Extracts of Chardenal's Second Course, and Charles XII., Books V. and VI. Exercises and Extracts of Chardenal's First Course. Chardenal's First Course to Exercise 100. Books I. to IV., with exercises on Books I. and II. Books I. and II., with deductions to No. 75 (Todhunter) . Book I. To end of quadratic equations. To end of simultaneous equations. To fractions, 100 pages of Hamblin Smith. Euclid Algebra III. I. II. III. 10 5 11 25 8 5 11 16