7. Give the gender, meaning, and nominative plural of-Antwort, Bild, Glas, Lorbeerblatt, Spielmann, Wasserfluth.

8. Form sentences, using any person of the imperfect indicative of these verbs-Bitten, leiden, singen, thun, verlieren.

9. Shew how the passive voice of German verbs is formed.

10. Give the German for

I shut the door.

We

e get up at seven o'clock.

He fell asleep.

A year ago.

Take care then!

Are you sure of it ?

If you please, is it half-past three yet?

ARITHMETIC.

The Board of Examiners.

The whole of the working of a question must be sent in as part of the answer.

1. The estimated value of all the gold that has been got in Victoria is 250 millions sterling. How many tons of standard gold does this represent, one ounce of standard gold being worth £3 17s. 10 d. ?

2. Find the weight of a quartz fibre 2006 inch in diameter circular in section and of sufficient length to go completely round the Earth.

1 cubic inch of quartz weighs 1.53 ounces, radius of Earth = 3963 miles, circumference of a circle = 22 diameter, area of a circle = 22 (radius)2.

3. Find the value, correct to 4 places of decimals, of— √6 + √? + √3 + √§.

4. A candle costs 1d. and burns for 9 hours.

The

electric company supplies current sufficient to keep 20 sixteen-candle power incandescent lamps alight for 1 hour for 6d. What is the ratio of the costs of the same amount of light from the two sources ?

5. A bankrupt's stock was sold for £860, at a loss of 21 per cent. on the cost price; had it been sold in the course of trade it would have realized a profit of 20 per cent. How much was it sold below the trade price?

6. What must be the market value of 4 per cent. stock so that after paying an income tax of 8d. in the £1 it may yield 3 per cent. interest?

7. For what sum must a vessel worth £10,000 be insured at £3 12s. 6d. per cent., so that in case of loss, both her value and the premium of insurance may be recovered?

8. £1 amounts in 25 years, at 2 per cent. compound interest, to £1.854. Find the true present worth (reckoning compound interest) of £100 due 100 years hence at the same rate.

9. A bar of gold (of which is pure) weighing 5.6728 kilograms is sent from Paris to London for sale. The price in London is £3 17s. 10d. per ounce standard which is 3 pure. What is the sum in francs remitted to Paris for it? £125.22 francs.

1 gram 15.43 grains.

10. A watch loses 3 seconds every 16 minutes, and it was 10 minutes fast at noon yesterday; find the correct time when it reads 5 o'clock this after

noon.

GEOGRAPHY.

The Board of Examiners.

The Map must be attempted.

1. Draw an outline map of North America. Mark on the map—

(a)__The boundaries of Canada, the United States, Mexico.

(b) The towns Boston, Chicago, Havanna, Mexico, New Orleans, New York, Ottawa, San Francisco, Quebec, Victoria, Washington.

(c) The rivers Mackenzie, Mississippi, Missouri, Potomac, Rio Grande, St. Lawrence, Yukon. (d) The islands Bahamas, Bermudas, Cuba, Jamaica, Prince Edward.

(e) The capes Bathurst, Breton, Charles, Farewell, Parry, Prince of Wales.

(f) The peninsulas Florida, Labrador, Nova Scotia, Yucatan.

2. Write a short account of ten important towns in Turkey in Asia.

3. Classify the several peoples of the AustroHungarian Empire. Give their distinguishing characteristics, and state in what provinces they are each to be found.

4. Name the colonies and possessions of Germany; give the position and a short account of each.

5. What indigenous animal, vegetable, and mineral products of Australia have a high commercial value?

6. Sketch roughly the boundaries of the area of country drained by the Murray and its tributaries. Mark ten towns on the banks.

7. Describe an iceberg, and explain how icebergs are formed.

8. Distinguish carefully dew and fog, and show the cause of each.

9. Explain what is meant by a cyclone and an anticyclone. How do they differ north and south of the equator?

10. State the leading conditions which govern the rainfall of a district. Why is the rainfall of Gippsland so much greater than that of the Mallee ?

CHEMISTRY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Explain the law of conservation of mass (also known as the law of indestructibility of matter), and describe an experiment that illustrates it.

2. What is meant by the diffusion of gases? How may a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen be partially separated into these ingredients by diffusion?

3. Describe the preparation and properties of hydrogen peroxide. What fundamental law of chemistry is illustrated by the comparison of the composition of this substance with that of water? Explain your answer.

4. What is meant by a saturated solution of a salt? How may such a solution be made? And how may the salt and the solvent be obtained again from it, each free of the other?

5. How is chlorine obtained from common salt? Describe the chief properties, both physical and chemical, of chlorine.

6. What oxides does sulphur form? Name, formulate, and describe them; and give an account of their preparation.

7. How may nitrogen be obtained from ammonia ? Describe and formulate the reactions you men

tion.