and become thus not only wiser but more charitable for the oftener one sees the better one knows; and the better one knows the more one loves."-Kingsley.

10. Parse the words in italics in questions 7 and 8.

ARITHMETIC.

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Every result must be reduced to its simplest form. The whole of the working of a question must be sent in as part of the answer.

1. Write down in words the quotient and remainder obtained by dividing fifteen billion three hundred and eighty-seven thousand one hundred million nine hundred and sixty-four thousand one hundred and twelve by eight hundred and thirteen million four hundred and eighty-six thousand five hundred and thirty-six.

2. Reduce to a vulgar fraction in its simplest form

3. Express as a decimal, correct to three places,

4. Extract the square root of 0000323761.

5. If 1,590 tons of ore yield 70,000 ounces of silver, what is the ratio of the weight of the ore to the weight of the silver contained in the ore?

6. The estate of a bankrupt paid as a dividend of 3s. 6d. in the £1 a sum of £1,566 13s. 7d. What was the total liability of the bankrupt?

7. There are 277-274 cubic inches in a gallon of water. Find to the nearest tenth of a gallon the number of gallons in a pipe one mile in length the area of whose cross section is one square inch.

8. The Argus is not published on Sundays and Good Fridays. How many publications of the paper will there have been this year on Saturday, 2nd June ?

9. At what time between ten and eleven o'clock do the hands of a watch point in opposite directions?

10. Shew that the value of a vulgar fraction is not altered by multiplying its numerator and denominator by the same number.

GEOGRAPHY.

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1. Draw a map of Africa. Mark on it the Equator

and the Meridian of Greenwich, Capes Guardafui, Spartel, Verd, the Bight of Benin, Delagoa Bay, the Suez Canal, the rivers Congo, Niger, Nile, Orange, and the following places :-Algiers, Cape Town, Ceuta, Dahomey, Khartoum, Mozambique, Natal, Rosetta, Sierra Leone, Tripoli. Do not mark any place not mentioned in this list.

2. Explain clearly the causes of day and night, also of the seasons.

3. What is meant by the following terms:-cyclone, fossil, geyser, glacier, isobar, lava, neap-tides, oasis, sand-dunes, volcanic?

4. How do you account for Arctic vegetation in the Alps?

5. Give instances of successful acclimatisation of plants and animals in Australia.

6. In England the North-easter is a bitterly cold wind. Why? What sort of a wind is that

from the South-west?

7. Write a geographical account of Tasmania.

8. Name the chief towns upon the Danube, the Rhine, the Rhone, and the Severn, and the countries in which these towns are respectively situated.

9. What colonies has Great Britain in North

America? Name one town in each colony.

10. Write a description of any three of the following:

An Avalanche.

The Delta of the Nile.

The Maelstrom.

The Mont Cenis Tunnel.

Niagara.

The Sargasso Sea.

11. Where and what are the following:-Amsterdam, Bengal, Campagna, the Dart, Erie, Fernando Po, Lochaber, Matterhorn, Poonah, Skager Rack, Tennessee, the Trossachs ?

12. The following places in the Australian colonies. have the same name as places in Great Britain. Say where each is in the colonies and where in Great Britain-Ben Lomond, Brighton, Canterbury, Dunedin, Kew, Launceston, Melbourne, Milford, Newcastle, Perth, Portland, Sandhurst.

ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY.

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[N.B.-Candidates are instructed not to answer more than six questions.]

1. When dry carbonate of soda and a dry crystalline acid (such as tartaric) are mixed no chemical change results; but if water be added the mixture effervesces. Explain this.

2. Give examples of simple oxides that decompose when heated to redness, and of others that do not.. How do you account for the difference? Do you know of any facts connected with it concerning the formation of these oxides?

3. Describe what occurs when phosphorus is heated with excess of nitric acid and the solution is evaporated to dryness.

4. Chlorine gas is passed through a solution of potassium iodide in a flask till no more is What occurs?

absorbed.

5. A bottle provided with a gas delivery tube contains some ferrous sulphide. (1) Sulphuric acid is added; (2) after a few minutes, the gas issuing from the tube is ignited by a taper; and (3) the tube and flame are next immersed in a jar of chlorine. Describe all the changes

that occur.

6. What do you understand by the terms "normal sodium sulphate" and "acid sodium sulphate"? How may each of these substances be prepared?

7. What volume of (1) oxygen, (2) air, is required for the complete combustion of a litre of marsh gas? If the oxygen and marsh gas be mixed and exploded in a closed vessel, how will the internal pressure be affected?

8. What do you understand by the terms "acid," "base,” and “alkali"? To which class would you refer water?