rolling-stock. Express your opinion as to the desirability of introducing such railways into Victoria, giving reasons for your conclusions.

2. Make a neat set of dimensioned diagrams with the names of the various parts of a locomotive engine suitable for mixed traffic on a railway 100 miles long, having grades of 1 in 40, and curves of 30

chains radius.

3. Write an essay upon the construction of graving docks, dealing specially with the question of the best types of entrances, pumping machinery, and appliances for lifting heavy weights such as the rudders and propellers of vessels.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

FIRST PAPER.

Professor Kernot.

1. Write an essay upon the various methods of utilizing animal power, including that of men.

2. Write an essay on turbines both for high and low falls, and for overcoming both steady and variable resistances, and illustrate it by neatly detailed sketches of the principal types in

common use.

3. Make a neat set of detailed sketches of a compound Worthington Pumping Engine with compensating cylinders. Describe the various parts, and explain their action. State what result in work done per pound of coal may reasonably be expected.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

SECOND PAPER.

Professor Kernot.

1. Discuss the effect of the inertia of the reciprocating parts of a steam engine, and show how to obtain a correct crank effort diagram when the steam pressure, point of cut off, speed and weight of reciprocating parts are given.

2. A compound condensing engine has cylinders 15 and 26 inches diameter, and cranks at right angles. Steam at 100 lbs. per square inch above the atmosphere is admitted into the H.P. cylinder. Draw the indicator diagrams

(a) With cut off at one-third stroke in each cylinder.

(b) With cut off at two-thirds stroke in each cylinder.

The length of the connecting rods may be taken as infinite, and the intermediate space as half the capacity of the H.P. cylinder.

3. Describe carefully, with sketches, some good form of water tube boiler, and compare its performances with that of shell boilers of modern type, especially in view of high pressures and variable demand for steam.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

THIRD PAPER.

Professor Kernot.

Carefully design the cylinder, piston, piston rod, and slide and expansion valves of a horizontal steam engine 10 inches diameter and 20 inches stroke, to use steam at 100 lbs. per square inch, cut off at from stroke.

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ARCHITECTURE.-PRACTICAL.

FIRST PAPER.

Mr. A. M. Henderson.

1. Fig. 1 is the plan and section of a proposed printing office, which must be as fire-proof as possible. The upper two floors to be of wood. The ground floor, and cellar will carry the heaviest machinery, and must be paved in some way. Girders to be of wrot iron and columns of cast iron. Gross loading of each floor is marked on section, and includes weight of floors and columns and girders. (a) Sketch carefully on the plans and section the number and arrangement of the columns and girders you would adopt.

(b) Sketch to 1-inch scale a working section through ground and first and second floor girders, showing construction of floors and flooring or paving, &c.; also sketch section to 1-inch scale through the cellar floor.

(c) Assuming 4 tons per square inch as the modulus of rupture for the material of the wooden floors, calculate the dimensions for the first floor, allowing a factor of safety of five.

(d) Assuming 5 tons per square inch as the safe stress in tension and compression on the gross area of flanges, calculate the sizes of ground and first floor girders, and sketch their section.

(e)

Write the specification for the footings and foundations of one of the columns, and calculate the sizes, assuming a hard clay bottom.

(f) Write the specification for the cellar floor, assuming a wet bottom but with easy outflow to

a sewer.

2. Plan 2 shows the various sanitary fittings and gratings of a large two-storey house and stabling. The fittings of the upper floor are shown by dotted lines. The position of the sewer is also shown.

Complete the plan by drawing thereon the various wastes, drains, pipes. traps, &c., &c., necessary to comply with modern requirements, and give careful sketch sections of the fittings and traps you propose to use.

3. Write a short essay or report on not more than two of the following subjects:—

(a) Factors of safety in Architectural works and the conditions determining them, noting wherein they differ from Engineering conditions.

(b) Practical duties of the architect when building in relation to the boundaries and easements of his client's property and adjoining owners and their respective acquired or alleged rights; also his duties and responsibilities as regards Municipal and Health authorities and regulations.

(c)

Old-fashioned and modern methods of writing specifications.

(d) Describe one of the new or important or notable buildings visited by you last year, and give sketches of features, &c.

ARCHITECTURE.-DRAWING AND PLANNING.

SECOND PAPER.

Mr. A. M. Henderson.

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1. A is the sketch plan of a two-storey country bank, of which B is an outline plan to a scale of an inch to the foot. Draw on B the details of doors and windows and fireplaces, also draw the stairs plan and give your calculations, and draw the skeleton plan of the roof you would adopt assuming all ends hipped, and upper ceilings level.

2. Plan C is the site for a new Church of England parish church to hold a congregation of 600 persons, exclusive of choir, &c. Assuming 6 feet superficial area for each sitting, exclusive of choir, chancel, organ, &c., sketch on C the size and arrangement of plan you would adopt for the site.