PRIMARY EXAMINATION PAPERS, 1904.

ENGLISH.

Time: two hours.

[Candidates are expected to occupy three-quarters of an hour in writing the essay (question 8)].

1. Define abstract noun. Show whether these nouns are ever or always abstract: wind, height, colour.

2. Write three sentences, the first containing the word that as a relative pronoun in the objective case, the second containing the word before as an adverb, and the third containing the word after as a conjunction.

3. Give the possessive case of the following: they, it, who, grocers, Ross the baker; and write a sentence containing it's, and another containing who's.

4. Distinguish the meaning of cite and site, eminent and imminent.

5. Give a general and also a particular analysis of this sentence: Great as was his desire that neither country should utterly defeat the other, it did not seem a pity to him that the war should last a long time.

6. Parse the four words in italics in Question 5.

7. Copy the following passage, underline the words that you think should be corrected, and then give your reasons:

Judging by the press of both countries, neither Russia nor Japan are very anxious to avoid war. One after the

no

other of Russia's encroachments in the East are being
taken with the full approval of her newspapers; and
listen to what one of the many Japanese' newspapers that
has daily been urging the declaration of war said, no later
than a week ago: "We want no assistance and
interference, if Russia wants none. We say to her, 'Come,
let us fight it out, thou and I alone. Let it be the
concern of none but we ourselves. Better the horrors of
war than this uncertainty; better even if it fall to us to
sing small and say,

The nations not so blest as thee
Must in their turn to tyrants fall.'

8. Write an essay on Trees.

9. Take down the words dictated to you.

WORDS FOR

DICTATION.

[Candidates are to write only the words in italics.

The sentences

are given with the object of preventing misapprehension on the part of the candidate of the words intended to be spelt. The words are to be dictated exactly two hours after the English paper has been given out. The Acting-Examiner is first to read a sentence, and then to repeat the word or words to be spelt.]

1. Give a civil answer to a civil question.

2. Civil means polite or courteous.

3. He found one egg but I found a couple.

4. He has taken ship and gone for a cruise round the world.

5. The rhinoceros at the Zoo is a very valuable animal.

6. The new monument is very conspicuous.

7. There are daffodils and dahlias in the garden near the beech trees.

8. The cross is the symbol of Christianity.

9. Frost is prejudicial to plants.

10. We cannot question the sincerity of those who suffer for their opinions.

ARITHMETIC.

Time two hours.

[Answers alone will not be accepted. The full working must be shown.]

1. Express 3s. 114d. as a decimal of £17 11s. 63d.

2. One lot of ore weighs 50 tons and averages 10 dwts. of gold to the ton, and another lot weighs 65 tons and averages 9 dwts. of gold to the ton. If the gold is worth £3 7s. 10d. per ounce, find the total value of the gold in the two lots.

Divide the sum so obtained by the difference between 613 and 3139325

4. A fruitseller sells 370 oranges at the rate of 4 for 3d., and disposes of the rest of his stock at the rate of 5 for 3d. Altogether he receives £2 3s. 41d. How many oranges had he?

5. A square grass lawn whose area is two-fifths of an acre is surrounded by a pathway 4 feet wide. Find the area of the path in square yards.

6. A water channel of rectangular section is 3 feet wide and the water in it is 2 feet 3 inches deep. If the water flows at the rate of 6 feet a second, find the number of gallons of water that pass a given point in 24 hours. There are 6 gallons in a cubic foot.

7. A bankrupt pays his creditors 17s. 10d. in the pound. Find the loss sustained by a creditor to whom he owes £1,922 13s. 4d.

ENGLISH HISTORY.

Time: one hour and a half.

1. What do you know of the conquest of the Britons by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes?