nation

Female

length of body, 27 inches; width (exclusive of gores), 18 inch.ee; Appendit. length of sleeve (including cuff), 11 inches. Paper for cutting out Section 10., will be provided. Articles are to be tacked together with needle and thread; no pins are to be left in them. Each is to be marked Examiwith examination number.

Questions. In dressmaking candidate is required to cut out bodice and sleeves to the following measurements:-Neck, 13 inches; bust,

Teachers. 33 inches; waist, 22 inches; front length, 121 inches (if this

B Papers, measure be taken from back of neck it will be 174 inches, zile measure will be 73, and under arm 7 inches); back length, 15 Now Proinches; cross back, 54 inches; hip, 38 inches'; length of sleeve, 21 inches ; length of elbow, 13 inches; bend, 11 inches; top of sleeve, 157 inches; cuff, 8 inches. Pattern is to be tacked together. One half of bodice and one sleeve will be taken as a sufficient

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Candidate is requested to comply as exactly as possible with all requirements mentioned above, as neglect of any of these instructions may lessen the value of her work.

Yale and Female

Teachers.

DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND HYGIENE.—50 Marks.

One hour and a half allowed for this paper.
N.B.Only five questions to be attempted. The Examiner will

read only the first five answers left uncancelled. The
questions in this paper are all of equal value, ten marks
being allowed for each.

Mr. EARDLEY, Head Inspector.

Mr. Cox, District Inspector. 1. What do you understand by a good wall paper? How should the walls of a room be treated when putting on a new paper; and why?

2. What, in your opinion, is the best way of carpeting a floor? Give a reason for your answer.

How should the carpet be cleaned ?

3. What is the best soil on which to build a house? What dangers attend a house built (1) on a wet soil, (2) on the lower part of a hill ?

4. Describe the sweat glands of the skin. What is the effect of exercise on these glands? Is any precaution necessary after exercise?

5. How should you clean oil cloths, marble chimney pieces, looking glasses, dish covers, and knives ?

6. State the different ways of warming a house; and, very briefly, the advantages and disadvantages of each.

7. Give a brief description of --(1) the corpuscles of the blood; (2) the muscles of the skin; (3) chymification.

8. Describe the different methods of storing water for towns and for houses; and mention any precautions to be observed in connectiou therewith.

9. Describe the Tobin Tube. Standing in a room under a ventilator, a draught is often felt: why?

10. What difference is there in using raw starch and boiled starch? How can you prevent the starch from sticking to the iron :

N.B.-Only five questions to be attempted. The Examiner will

read only the first five answers left uncancelled. The questions in tris paper are all of equal value, ten marks being allowed for each.

Mr. SULLIVAN, Head Inspector.
Mr. HEADEN, District Inspector.

1. The success of the Kindergarten system is said to depend on the teacher's personal gifts. Explain this statement fully.

2. It is claimed for Kindergarten that the chief benefit is to be sought in its moral influence. How is this established ?

3. What are the chief objections to modelling or working in clay as a Kindergarten occupation, and how are these objections answered ?

4. Compare the Third au Fourth Gifts, and show where the Law of Contrasts comes in. Sketch three successive forms of beauty with the Fourth Gift.

5. “ Kindergarten favours the child's instinct of construction in every possible way." Develop and illustrate this statement.

6. Discuss the question as to the necessity for a separate classroom in which to teach Kindergarten.

7. Describe fully the part which Kindergarten plays in the Linguistic Training of Children.

8. Describe the Second Gift and explain its educational purpose.

9. Describe the successive gradations from concrete to abstract marked out in Frobels gifts and occupations.

10. Give a full description of Kindergarten Drawing as to (1) Age at which it may be cominenced, (2) Material and Course of Exercises (3) Educationai vaiue.

Male and
Femal,
Teachers,

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V.-QUESTIONS set to Candidates for Third Class, First Division. Appendix.. PENMANSHIP.--40 Marks.

Section III.,

V. Half an hour allowed for this paper.

Exami. Mr. SULLIVAN, Head Inspector.

dation

Questions.
Mr. ROGERS, District Inspector.
Write:-

(a.) As a headline in large hand.
16.) As a headline in small hand.

Cl and B (c.) and (d.) In a neat legible hand.

Papers. (a.) I change, but I cannot die.

New Pro(6.) There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.

But we, “ the latest seed of Time,".
Attempting much in prose or rime,
With energy almost sublime,

Some from the camp, and some from college,
Ranging from Beersheba to Dan,
Accumulate, as best we can,
Line upon line, and inan by man,

An armoury of scraps of knowledge.
(d.) “The church of S. Vitale at Fuorigrotta, in Naples, where
the poet Giacomo Leopardi lies buried, has just been declared a
national monument, and considerable ‘restorations are now in
progress. It is proposed to raise a fund for placing a memorial to
Leopardi on the piazza near the church, and the suggestion is likely
to be carried out con slancio, as the Neapolitans say."

SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION.

PASSAGE FOR DICTATION.
N.B.--The Superintendent, when reading this passage, will bear in

mind that, as the candidute is expected to punctuate it
properly, the various stops should not be named.

Mr. DEWAR, Head Inspector.

Mr. WORSLEY, District Inspector. Thus the character of the English esquires of the seventeenth century was compounded of two elements which we are not accustomed to find united. His ignorance and uncouthness, his low tastes and gross phrases, would, in our time, be considered as indicating a nature and a breeding thoroughly plebeian. Yet he was essentially a patrician, and had, in large measure, both the virtues and the vices which flourish among men set from their birth in high places, and accustomed to authority, to observance, and to self-respect. It is not easy for a generation which is accustomed to find chivalrous sentiments only in company with liberal studies and polished manners to image to itself a man with the deportment, the vocabulary, and the accent of a carter, yet punctilious on matters of genealogy and precedence, and yet ready to risk his life rather than see a stain cast on the honour of his house. It is only, however, by thus joining together things seldom or never found together in our own experience, that we can form a just idea of that rustic aristocracy which constituted the main strength of the armies of Charles I., and which long supported with strange fidelity the interest of his descendants. The gross, uneducated, untravelled country gentleman was commonly a Tory; but though devotedly attached to hereditary monarchy, he had no partiality for courtiers and ministers.

Male and Female

Teachers

Appendia.

GRAMMAR.—60 Marks. Section III.,

Two hours allowed for this paper. Exami- N.B.—In addition to the questions in Parsing and Anaïysis, nation

namely, Nos. 1 and 2, which are compulsory, only three Questions.

questions are to be attempted. The Examiner will read only the Parsing and Analysis and the first three other

answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper Ci Papers.

are all of equal value, twelve marks being allowed for

each. New Pro

Mr. SULLIVAN, Head Inspector.

Dr. BEATTY, District Inspector.
Scarce could they hear or see their foes

Until at weapon point they close.
They close in clouds of smoke and dust,
With sword-sway and with lance's thrust;

And such a yell was there
Of sudden and portentous birth,
As if men fought upon the earth
And fiends in upper air;
O life and death were in the shout,
Recoil and rally, charge and rout,

And triumph and despair.
Long looked the anxious squires; their eye

Could in the darkness nought descry.
Parse fully the words in italics. (It is not allowable to parsa,
instead of a word given, one substituted for it.)

2. Draw out a complete analysis of the following sentence :--

A new title or an unexpected success throws us out of ourselves and in a manner destroys our identity.

3. Correct (giving reasons) or justify the following expres sions:

(a.) A certain lady whom I could name, if it was necessary.
(6.) He began to be tired doing nothing.
(c.) For my part, I love him not nor hate him not.

(d.) As when the sun new risen.
4. Classify the various suffixes used in English to distinguish
Gender; and give examples.

5. Frame sentences to show the various parts of Speech under which the following words may be classed :—since, 80, yet.

6. A participle has been described as a "pure adjective.” Discuss this statement.

7. Enumerate as many verbs as possible which are followed by
the simple infinitive without the prefixed to.
8. Give an example of each of the following:-.

(a) the ethical dative;
(6) the gerundial infinitivo;
(c) an inseparable pretix;
(d) the factitive object.

V.

9. (a.) Name the two plural forms of each of the following Appendix. words, and distinguish the respective meanings:-brother, pea, Section III., penny, cloth; (6) write etymological notes on the plurals of pea and brother.

Exami. 10. “The comparative degree is formed by adding -er to the nation.

Questions. positive." In certain cases there is also a modification in the

Male spelling. Ciassify these modifications and give an example of each.

C' Papers.

and Female

Teachers.

New Programme.

ENGLISH COMPOSITION.—60 Marks.

Two hours allowed for this paper.
N.B.—Only one subject to be attempted.

Mr. EARDLEY, Head Inspector.
Mr. MCNEILL, District Inspector.

1. Tte Life of a Soldier.
2. Competition.
3 The wonders of the Sea Shore.

GEOGRAPHY.—70 Marks.

CI and

B Papers. Two hours allowed for this paper.

New Pro

gramme. N.B.One of the map-drawing questions is compulsory. In addi

tion to it only four questions are to be attempted The
Examiner will read only the answer to the map-drawing
question and the first four other answers left uncancelled.
The questions in this paper are all of equal value, fourteen
marks being assigned to each.

Neatness and accuracy in the drawing of maps and diagrams will

be taken into account.]

Mr. EARDLEY, Head Inspector.

Mr. MURPHY, District Inspector. 1. Draw a map of the six northern counties of England, showing the mountain ranges and general drainage system of this part of the country.

2. On the outline map supplied to you, indicate by shading or cclouring (inserting names) the insular possessions of Great Britain, and mark the position of Algoa Bay, Ashantee, the Swan River, Port Elizabeth, Adelaide, Zanzibar, and Durban.

3. Name the principal mineral products of England, and the counties in which they are found.

4. What tracts of country are included in the great European plain? Mention any barren regions to be found in Europe.