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Girls' College. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Boarding fees .. .. .. 1,145 18 4 House expenses .. .. .. 876 16 1 Tuition .. .. .. .. 1,226 5 6 Tuition expenses .. .. .. 996 16 8 Scholarships— Foundation .. .. .. 98 6 0 Endowed .. .. .. .. 70 0 0 Free tuition .. .. .. 136 10 0 Governors,'examiners,'and auditors'fees 64 12 1 Stationery and prizes .. .. .. 71 10 10 Printing and advertising .. .. 24 15 6 Gas .. .. .. .. .. 51 0 3 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 15 0 0 Insuranoe .. .. .. .. 26 0 0 Repairs .. .. .. .. 23 3 8 Furniture .. .. .. .. 106 12 2 Seoretary .. .. .. .. 56 5 3 Sundries .. .. .. .. 13 18 0 7,388 2 0 6,795 4 10 Capital Account. Repayment of mortgage .. .. 908 0 6 Mortgage loans .. .. .. 2,700 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 2,561 12 10 Boys' College Buildings Account .. 1,267 2 0 Girls' College Buildings Acoount .. 95 8 6 £10,857 15 4 £10,857 15 4 J. Hollow ay, Seoretary. We certify that we have examined the above accounts, and compared them with the several vouchers relating thereto, and have found them correct. John King, ) . j-, Ambrose E.-MooEE,) Audltors -

3. WORK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Boys' College. Highest. —English—Mason's Grammar (the whole book); Scott and Dalgleish's Higher Grade English; Oarlyle's Sartor Resartus ; Shelley's Prometheus Unbound ; Milton's Samson Agon istes ; Chaucer's Prologue; Notes on English Literature, 1800-1850. Latin—Caasar, B. G. VII.; Horace, Epistles, I.; grammar, and sight translation and composition; Ramsay's Roman \ntiquities. Mathematics—Todhunter and Loney's Algebra; Jones and Cheyne's Algebraic lixercises; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry; Wards Papers in Trigonometry ; Hall and Stevens' Euclid, I. to VI. French —Taine's Voyage aux Pyrenees ; Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and L'Avare ; Racine's Phedre; grammar, composition, and sight translation. Science—Jago's Advanced Chemistry, and Thorpe's Practical Chemistry; Loney's Statics and Dynamics; H. Smith's Hydrostatics. Lowest. —English—Grammar, Mason's Outlines; history, Warwick, No. 5 ; geography, Longmans', No. 1; Reader, Imperial, No. 5. Latin—Morris's Elementa Latina. Arithmetic —Pendlebury and Beard's Shilling Arithmetic, to include fractions. French—Chardenal's First Course, exercises Ito 60. Science—Lessons in physiology. Girls' College. Highest. —Division A, as for the B.A. degree in English, mathematics, Latin, French, heat, sound, and light. Division B, not quite up to Junior Scholarship standard this year. Text-books used as in Division A. Lowest. —The work is very elementary, class being comprised of girls of nine to eleven. The text-books used are : —English—Palmerston Reader, Book VI.; Tennyson for the Young ; The World Atlas; Mrs. Gardiner's History. French—Hogben's Methode Naturelle. Elementary botany Is also taught in this class.

4. Arrangements fob Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Boys' College. To every boy in the school, except to those in the Sixth Form, drawing is taught for one hour a week; the Fifth Form, freehand, scale, model, and geometry up to the standard of the Second Grade examination ; the Fourth Form in the same subjects up to First Grade standard ; the remaining forms, freehand. Manual instruction : Twenty boys have an hour's instruction a week in the use of carpenter's tools. The Sixth and Fifth Forms have frequent; practical work in the laboratory. Gymnastics and drill are compulsory for every boy in the school twice a week. There are two fully equipped cadet corps. A swimming competition is held every year. Girls' College. Class Drawing (freehand and model) is taught by a special teacher to the majority of the school. There is a studio, detached from the main building, where individual lessons are given in painting. Private lessons may also be taken in drawing. Arrangements are made to enable girls to take lessons in shorthand. Cookery classes are held in the winter term. A gymnasium class is held in the winter term ; in this term, club exercises are gone through daily. The Swimming Club is open during the summer months, and lessons are given in swimming at a moderate charge.