(a) Parse fully all the pronouns in the above passage, pointing out to which class they severally belong.

(b) Show what words join the subordinate sentences to the principal in the first two lines.

(c) Give the meaning of the above passage in your own

words.

GEOGRAPHY.

1. Give notes of a lesson on the railways which pass through your own county.

2. Drap a full map showing Australia and Tasmania in outline, and New Zealand in full, i.e., with capes, bays, and towns fully marked.

N.B.-Draw the lines of latitude and longitude if you can; and take special care to show each island in its right proportion, and at the proper distances from the others.

3. Write a letter, as from a young man lately returned from Zululand, giving an account of what he has seen there, and on the journey from and to Cape Town.

(One hour allowed for Females.)

(Two hours and a half allowed for Males.)

HISTORY.

1. When and how did Ethelred I. die? Upon that event how was succession to the throne of Wessex settled? 2. How came William, King of Scotland, to be a captive in England? Upon what terms was he released?

3. For six years in the reign of John, England was under an interdict." Explain this statement, with the causes and consequences of the interdict.

PENMANSHIP.

Write, in large hand, as a specimen of copy-setting, the word Shropshire.

Write, in small hand, as a specimen of copy-setting, Yonder shines Aurora's harbinger.

COMPOSITION.

Write full notes of a lesson on a Coal Mine.

EUCLID.

[All generally understood abbreviations for words may be used, but not symbols of operations, such as, +, ×.] 1. To bisect a given rectilineal angle, that is, to divide it into two equal angles.

2. The angles which one straight line makes with another upon one side of it, are either two right angles, or are together equal to two right angles.

Why is this proposition a theorem?

Why is the equilateral triangle described on the side remote from the given angle?

JULY, 1880.

(Three hours and a half allowed.)

ARITHMETIC.

Males.

1. Find the simple interest of £946 for 7 months at 4 per cent. per annum.

2. A certain sum of money put out at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum for 10 days produces £12 10s. Find the sum.

3. Five per cent. on a given sum = £64 13s. 4d. Find (a) 51 and (b) 4 per cent. of the same sum.

4. Twenty-two children came home from nutting with an average of 90 nuts each. They ate of them and sold the remaining nuts at three half-pence a dozen, having refused an offer of £75 for them. How much per cent. did they gain or lose by the refusal ?

5. What principal will gain £29 4s. 74d. in 3 years, at the same rate as that by which £45 10s. amounts to £56 178. 6d. in 5 years,—at simple interest in both cases?

Females.

1. Find the sum of , 31, 10%, and 1.

2. Reduce the expression (37

its simplest form.

2

5

+

10

18 of 4) 14 to

3. Reduce

of £1 to the fraction of 27s.

4. What part of of a ton is 23 of 13 of of a cwt. ?

GRAMMAR.

1. What is the chief use of the subjunctive mood? Give examples of its employment.

2.

"God doth not need

Either man's work, or His own gifts; who best
Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best."

MILTON.

(a) Show from the above how relative pronouns may connect a subordinate with a principal sentence. (b) Analyse the subordinate sentence.

(c) Parse fully all the pronouns in the above.

GEOGRAPHY.

(Answer either Q. 2 or Q. 3.)

1. Give notes of a lesson on "The basin of the Danube," bringing out clearly the great physical features. Illustrate your lesson by a map, and frame your notes so that they may follow the same order as the map, and refer to it at every point.

2. Name the British possessions in Africa, and describe briefly, but clearly, the situation and character of each. 3. Describe minutely, as for children, Quebec, Jamaica, Vancouver's Island, and the Falls of Niagara.

(One hour allowed for Females.)

(Two hours and a half allowed for Males.)

HISTORY.

1. By what means did Egbert prepare himself to consolidate and rule over the kingdom of Anglia? How far was he successful?

2. "England presented the singular spectacle of a native population with a foreign Sovereign, a foreign hierarchy, and a foreign nobility." Explain this description of the state of our country in 1080.

3. When, and between what parties, was the battle of

Shrewsbury fought? Mention the fate of some of the principal persons engaged in it.

PENMANSHIP.

Same exercise as for Candidates.

COMPOSITION.

Write full notes of a lesson on "The Cities of England."

EUCLID.

[All generally understood abbreviations for words may be used, but not symbols of operations, such as X, +.]

1. To draw a straight line at a given angle to a given straight line, from a given point in the same.

2. The greater angle of every triangle is subtended by the greater side, or has the greater side opposite to it.

3. If D, E, F are points taken in the sides B C, C A, A B of an equilateral triangle ABC, so that B D=CE= A F, show that the triangle D E F is equilateral.

AUGUST, 1880.

(Three hours and a half allowed.)

ARITHMETIC.

Males.

1. £150 is placed in a savings bank, and £165 is withdrawn at the end of 4 years; what is the rate of simple interest per cent. per annum?

2. If A's income is 150 per cent. more than B's, how much per cent. of A's is B's income?

3. A man has a sum of money put out at 4 per cent. interest per annum ; after paying 4d. in the £ income tax, he finds his income to be £1,416 a year. What is his

capital?

4. Find the simple interest on £1,000 for six months

5. A house cost three times as much for materials as for labour; had the materials cost 7 per cent. more, and the labour 5 per cent. less, the cost of the house would have been £2,087 10s. What was its actual cost?

Females.

1. Simplify:

8 (b) 7

1).

2. If it take 5 yds. of cloth for a great coat, 4 yds. for a dress coat, 23 yds. for a pair of trowsers, and } yd. for a waistcoat, what will be the cost of the suit, if cloth be 12s. 6d. a yd., and the making 13s.?

3. What is the value of

67 days

4. If

of an acre produce 26 bus. of potatoes, how many pecks ought 2 chains to produce?

GRAMMAR.

"To-day I saw the dragon-fly

Come from the wells where he did lie.
He dried his wings: like gauze they grew:
Thro' crofts and meadows wet with dew,
A living flash of light he flew."

TENNYSON.

(a) Point out the extensions of the predicate that occur in the above, and give two other examples of similar extensions.

(b) Parse the words in italics.

2. In the following sentence show which is the correct case after the conjunction, me or I, and give your reasons: (a) "You are a much greater loser than me by his death."

(b) "You are a much greater loser than I by his death."

GEOGRAPHY.

(Answer either Q. 2 or Q. 3.)

1. Give notes of a lesson on "The Great Cities of Italy;" describing, as for children, their situation, character, and objects of interest, and mentioning for what each has been famous in history.