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APPENDIX A.-Report on Schools for Summer Term ending 31st October, 1886.-Continued.

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APPENDIX B.

REPORT on Schools open during Winter Term, 1886-1887, 1st Nov. to 31st March.

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1,199 pupils @ $1.50 = $1,798.50.

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APPENDIX C.

QUESTIONS SET AT THE TEACHERS' EXAMINATION, JANUARY, 1887.

PROTESTANT SECTION.

Class II.

English Literature and Composition.

1. What is meant by English Literature?

2. What are the two greatest early English Poems remaining to this day? Give a short account of each.

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3. The Visions of Piers the Plowman.

4. Write a short account of Scott's "Lady of the Lake."

5. Write short notes on the following, giving the context when you can:
1. "She sang, and still a harp unseen
Filled up the symphony between."

2. "Rather will Ellen Douglas dwell

A votaress in Marouan's cell;

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3. "While clamorous war-pipes yelled the gathering sound,
And while the Fiery Cross glanced, like a meteor, round."

4. "To Douglas gave a golden ring,

While coldly glanced his eye of blue

As frozen drop of winter dew."

6. Write a short essay on one of the following subjects :

1. North-West Winter.

2. North-West Summer.

Class II.-Physiology and Hygiene.

1. Why do human beings and dumb animals die if they are shut up in a room where no fresh air can come in?

2. If a room were full of steam, how would you send it out?

3. About how many different things does our blood contain? What is the name of the only food that contains the substances necessary to feed the blood?

4. As no blood can run through the coats or sides of an artery or vein, how

does the blood get out to feed the forty organs?

5. Describe all you know about the way in which a dinner of solid food-beef and potatoes-is digested and turned into good blood?

6. How would you get all the juices out of meat, and how would you make the strongest and most digestible beef tea?

7. What is organic matter?

8. Why is it necessary to clean a saucepan outside as well as inside?

Class II.—Arithmetic.

1. Define H. C. F. and L. C. M.

A, B, C and D, all met at a certain house on the 1st January, 1886. A. was in the habit of calling at the same place every 3rd day, B. every 5th day, C. every 10th day, and D. every 13th day. When will they all meet again?

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3. Divide $999 between A., B. and C., so that A may receive $15 more than B., and B. $15 more than C.

4. Divide '0269 by 281; 269 by 0281; and 2.69 by 00281.

5. Convert into vulgar fractions, in their lowest terms, .2427; 2·325.

6. Find the square root of 44415.5625, and the cube root of 970299.

7. A work can be accomplished by A. and B. in 3 days; by A. and C. in 5 days; by B. and C. in seven days. Find in what time it would be accomplished by all working together.

8. Wheat is bought at 39s. and 48s. a quarter; in what proportion must they be mixed so as to gain 25 per cent. by selling the mixture at 57s. 6d. per quarter ?

Class II-Geography.

1. Explain the following terms:

Equator, hemisphere, parallel of latitude, first meridian and ecliptic.

2. On what do rainfall, mineral springs, hot springs and climate depend? 3. Give the principal mountain ranges of Asia and America.

4. What are the capes between Osborne and Cod on the eastern coast of North America?

5. Give the capitals of the following countries, and their chief products: Venezuela, Ecuador, Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Newfoundland, China, Beloochistan, British India, Wurtemburg, Hungary, Roumania, Monteregro and Bulgaria.

6. What are the chief islands included under Polynesia?

7. What are peculiar characteristics of the Caucasian, Mongolian, Ethiopian and the Malay, and how are they respectively distributed over the face of the globe? 8. What are the four great oceanic river-systems and the great rivers which constitute them?

Class 11.-Euclid,

1. Define circle, rhombus, rhomboid and parallelogram.

2. If two angles of a triangle be equal to each other; the sides also which subtend, or are opposite to, the equal angles, shall be equal to one another.

3. If a side of a triangle be produced, the exterior angle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles; and the three interior angles of every triangle are together equal to two right angles.

4. If the square described upon one of the sides of a triangle be equal to the squares described upon the other two sides of it, the angle contained by these two sides is a right angle.

5. If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square on the whole line is equal to the square on the two parts, together with twice the rectangle contained by the parts,

6. To describe a square that shall be equal to a given rectilineal figure,

7. A line drawn bisecting the angle contained by the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle, bisects the third side at right angles.

8. Given the base of any triangle, the area, and the line bisecting the base, construct the triangle,

Class II-Grammar.

1. What is inflexion? What parts of speech are inflected, and for what reason? 2. Some plural nouns are used as singnlar, and other are used only in the plural. Give as many examples as you can of each.

3. Give the nine primary tenses, illustrating each tense in the active voice by "to write" and the passive voice by "to teach.

4. Distinguish between strong and weak conjugations, giving six examples of each with their preterites and past participles.

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