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English-Colloquial.--Standard III, very good. Standard II would not reply. A better method of teaching the subject is needed. Reading.-Pronunciation much improved, and the matter well understood. Writing.-Very good.

Geography.-Good on the whole.

Arithmetic.--Very good. It was a pleasure to see Standard III doing easy problems in decimals, and "proving" their answers.

History,-A few stories out of English history had been learned. I think this subject had better be omitted from the syllabus.

* No. 6.-Sacred Heart.

Discipline and Organization.-Very good. The records are kept most carefully. The scholars should be questioned collectively, and made to reply so that the whole Standard can hear.

Sanitation. Very satisfactory.

Floor Space.--Sufficient for 88 pupils.

Apparatus. Picture sheets are needed, otherwise satisfactory.

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English-Colloquial. The children talked well about the pictures they had studied. The object lessons were less successful. Reading. The new readers are a great improve- ment; but the reading is poor. The pronunciation is only fair, and the scholars are unwilling to make themselves heard. The subject matter is well understood. Writing.- Fair. The writing is too small, and more attention should be paid to the formation of the letters.

Arithmetic.-Mental.-The multiplication table might have been better known. Written.-Fair. Standard III broke down unaccountably over a sum which they were told to do both by long and by short division. Only one scholar shewed up the same answer

to both sums.

·History.―This subject should be dropped.

*No. 7.-Diocesan School, Girls.

Discipline and Organization.-Good. The scholars answer clearly when spoken to, and are well-mannered.

Sanitation.-Very satisfactory.

Floor Space.-Sufficient for 64 pupils.

Apparatus.—History and geography readers are wanted. In the lower Standards not all the children had even general readers.

English.—Writing.-A great improvement has taken place in the neatness of the work shewn up. The result of an examination of Classes IV to VII was very good, except in Class V where, though good work was done, there were many bad mistakes in spelling. Another year it may be hoped that the senior girls will aim at something beyond a mere absence of grammatical mistakes, and endeavour to cultivate a rather more polished and less colloquial style, as well as to think out what they are going to write before beginning, and to arrange the matter in some sort of logical sequence. Reading was rather weak in the two lowest Standards, probably by reason of the shortage of reading-books. Pronun- ciation and enunciation were good.

Geography. The pupils have no books, but are given notes by the teacher. If this practice is followed, the teacher's note-book should be open for inspection. And it also follows that the subject matter of the notes will have to be very carefully selected and prepared. Standards VI and VII did upon the whole a good paper in this subject. Stan- dard V were weak, their sketch maps being very bad. Many of the answers were beside the point. Standard IV shewed an intelligent knowledge.