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The following table shows the number of matriculated and non-matriculated students who have attended lectures since the year 1890 to date: — Matriculated. Non-matriculated. Total. 1890 ... ... ... ... ... 151 116 267 1891 ... ... ... ... .. 172 177 349 1892 ... ... ... ... ... 186 159 345 1893 ... ... ... ... ... 182 158 340 1894 ... ... ... ... ... 185 141 326 1895 ... ... ... ... ... 177 130 307 1896 ... ... ... ... .. 150 66 216 1897 ... ... ... ... ... 144 73 217 The number of students attending each lecture during the last term of 1897 was as follows : — Classics. —Pass Latin : Translation, 26; composition, 33. Greek : Translation, 3 ; composition, 3. Honours Latin: Translation, 6 ; composition, 6. English Literature. —Pass lectures : Literature (1625-1668), 38 ; Burke, Macaulay, and Shakespeare (set books), 30; philology, 31. Honours lectures: Literature (extra books), 4; Burke, Macaulay, and Shakespeare (set books), 2 ; philology, 8. History. —Pass: History of England (1688-1789), 19; constitutional history, 16. Honours lectures : History of Europe (1688-1789), 2. Mathematics. —Pass lectures : Pure mathematics, 32 ; mechanics and hydrostatics, 13. Honours mathematics: Section 1., 4; Section 11., 2; Section 111., 5; Section IV., 1. Elementary mechanics and hydrostatics, 7. Chemistry and Physics. —Pass chemistry, 14; honours chemistry, 6; teachers' chemistry, 6; teachers' physics, 5 ; pass physics, 9 ; honours physics, 3 ; practical chemistry (junior and pass), 33 ; practical physics (junior and pass), 10; practical physics and chemistry (honours and research), 4. Geology. —Junior, 4 ; senior, 3. Biology. —Pass botany (Part II.), 5; practical botany (Part II.), 6; pass general biology (Part II.), 11; pass zoology (Part II.), 4 ; practical zoology (Part II.), 4 ; honours zoology (invertebrates), 7 ; honours zoology (practical), 8 ; honours zoology (vertebrates), 2. French. —Pass lectures : Composition, 25 ; authors, 15 ; grammar, 16 ; literature, 10. Honours lectures: Composition, 6 ; authors, 6; essay and literature, 6; philology, 10; literature, 7. German. — Pass, 3; elementary, 7. Jurisprudence and Law. —Pass jurisprudence, 15 ; honours jurisprudence, 10; LL.B. (second section), 6; LL.B. (third section), 1. Political Economy. —Pass, 28; honours, 4. Music. —Rudiments of music and harmony (first year students), 10; rudiments of music and harmony (first-year students, evening class), 5 ; harmony (intermediate, second-year students), 13 ; harmony, counterpoint, &c. (senior, third-year students), 15; advanced class (for students who have passed the senior examination), 1. Successful Students. —Honours in Arts and Science, Masters of Arts, and Doctors of Laws: The Select Committee appointed by the University senate to devise the best means of meeting the difficulty caused by the loss, through the wreck of the " Mataura," of the candidates' answers in the examinations of November, 1897, reported as follows: With regard to candidates for honours in arts and science, or for the M.A. or LL.D. degrees, " That, in the event of the papers of answers not being recovered before the end of May, candidates for honours, or M.A. or LL.D. degrees who presented, themselves for examination in November, 1897, be re-examined in November, 1898, without any additional fee ; and that the English examiners be requested to set additional papers for such candidates in languages and its history, corresponding with the selections of authors and periods prescribed for November, 1897, provided that any such candidate who shall have left New Zealand before November, 1898, may sit for the examination in any other place if convenient arrangements can be made." The report was agreed to at a meeting of the senate held on the 25th February, 1898. The following students were recorded by the University senate as having passed in their respective examinations: — Bachelor of Arts. —Final Examination: Allen, Ellen Miriam; Bell, Ethel Elmslie; Carter, Alice Ada; Collier, Bosa; Demment, Minnie Caroline; Enright, Ellen; Henry, Geraldine; Johansen, Ernst Ferdinand; Kirk, Christina Ross; Kirton, Florence Millicent; Maclaverty, Charles Wilfred Iver ; McEachen, Mary Agnes ; Olliver, Margaret Florence Louisa ; Prendeville, James ; Rawson, Myra May ; Ross, Flora Duff Wallace; Scott, Katherine ; Sievwright, Roberta Jane ; Stuckey, Harry Overton. First Section : Broome, Kate Eleanor; Burley, William Edward ; Campbell, Anne Duncan ; Cooper, John Sisson St.- George ; Cowles, Jabez Alfred ; Craig, Margaret Ellen ; Crawford, James Melville Balfour ; Evans, Francis Thomas ; Fraser, Wilhelmina Sara; Gibson, Ethel Marianne; Greenfield, Mary ; Hislop, James : Jacobsen, Ethel May; Kohere, Beweti Tuhorouta ; McGallan, Thomas Gibson ; McWilliam, James Thomas ; Newman, Elizabeth Amy ; Norris, Arthur Hugh; Parr, Edward James ; Benner, Frederick Henry Martin ; Richmond, Howard Parris: Shirlaw, David McFedries; Sinclair, John Robert; Thomson, Frank David; Townsend, Cecil Moore ; West, Donald Sloan ; West, William McDonald. Bachelor of Science. —Final Examination : Arthur Edward Flower, M.A. ; John Kenneth Harold Inglis, B.A. First Examination : Thomas Arthur Black. Bachelor of Science in Engineering, — Final Examination: Thomas Ross Burt; Arthur Bainsford Craddock, B.Sc. Third Examination : John Ernest Lelliot Cull. Second Examination : Sidney Hartley Jenkinson, Cyril Nelson Beetham Williams. Bachelor of Laivs. —Final Examination : Stella May Henderson, M.A.; George Thorngate Weston, B.A. Second Examination: Ernst Ferdinand Johansen. First Examination : Edward Bums Moore, Philip Moore, Kenelm Neave, Beginald Vincent.