showing themselves, and that there is no present prospect of these premises ceasing to be permanent, from the indolence of the inhabitants, it seems worthy of consideration whether the Board's aid should not be withdrawn. With respect to the attainments of the pupils, I find some have made fair progress, but in the case of others, who have been regularly at school since last inspection, I find no visible progress, and this I ascribe to a discipline which permits the indolent to be idle. Number on roll, 65; present at examination, 39. LEYBURN. (Inspected 10th February, 5th June, 12th October.) During this year the new school has been occupied. It is built and lined with cypress pine; and as regards material, workmanship, and fitness, it is a beautiful specimen of a village school. The advantages of a handsome, commodious, and properly furnished schoolroom are already visible. In October the daily average was 50, being higher than at any former period. The children are distinguished by extraordinary punctuality, regularity, and love of school. In consequence of these characteristics, I detect from time to time a gratifying result in the individual pupil. By means of home exercises a great deal of work is done by the older pupils. In arithmetic, the fourth class show proficiency in proportion, practice, interest, vulgar and decimal fractions, extraction of square and cube root, and mensuration of surfaces. Five boys are engaged on euclid, in which they have advanced as far as the middle of the second book. But in this subject sufficient care has not been taken to secure thoroughly the ground passed over. Arithmetic is the strong point of the school, and the writing is good. Number on roll, 55; present at examination, 52. LOGAN RIVER (NON-VESTED). This is a mixed school only one month under the Board's control. Nothing, therefore, can be reported of its progress. The average attendance ef pupils for six months previous to its recognition by the Board was within a fraction of 30. During the month of December it amounted to 32. MARYBOROUGH. (Inspected 1st and 2nd May, 4th and 5th September.) The school continues to be held in the building rented from the Committee of the School of Arts, and there has been no mitigation of the evils resulting from too small and otherwise unsuitable premises. The new school is approaching completion, and promises to be a building admirably adapted to the use for which it is designed. In the boys' school fair progress has been made; it is most discernible in the first (or lowest) class, which is in a much better condition than at last visit. The third class exhibits fair attainments in all subjects, except geography. The second class is the least satisfactory part of the school. In the girls' school the third class has improved, though its relative condition is still behind that of the first and second classes. A good supply of maps has lately been furnished to the school, which will doubtless produce higher attainments in geography. Number on the roll, 89; present at examination, 63. PINE MOUNTAIN. The school on the Pine Mountain, although conducted by an able and painstaking, master is likely to become a failure in consequence of the exodus from the district of the sawyers, whose occupation appears to be gone forever in that neighborhood. Indeed the minimum average attendance was barely preserved by the presence in school of the numerous family of the teacher, whose talents and attainments were almost thrown away on the small number of infant children who presented themselves for instruction in the latter part of the year. ROCKHAMPTON. ROCKHAMPTON. (Inspected 24th and 25th April, 16th and 17th August.) At the beginning of the year the school was in an extremely unsatisfactory condition, but by the appointment of entirely new teachers, it has been restored to a state of great efficiency. At the date of the second inspection the previously existing evils had almost entirely disappeared, an efficient discipline was maintained, a marked improvement had taken place in the tone and manners of the children, and the routine of a well-ordered school was proceeding with regularity in both departments. The neatness of the playground and premises reflects credit on the teacher of the boy's school, who is also custodian of the establishment. Number on the roll, 182; present at the examination, 113. REDBANK (NON-VESTED). This, which is a new school taken under the Board's control in the month of October, is held in a building used as a place of worship by members of the Roman Catholic communion. It is sufficiently supplied with furniture, books, and apparatus; it has been attended by the minimum average of 30 pupils, under the care of a certificated master. As, on the occasion of my visit to the school to inspect the fittings, &c., I did not examine the scholars, I am unable to say anything of their progress during the short period which has elapsed since they came under the Board's supervision. TOOWOOMBA (VESTED). (Inspected 7th July, 16th November.) This school was opened on the 3rd of April, and between that date and the first inspection 143 pupils were enrolled. At the second inspection there were 161 on the roll. The school (in all respects similar to the one at Drayton), is wholly inadequate to the due accommodation of so large a number of children. Were all the children present on the same day the building would barely afford standing room. In November, 103 pupils were present at examination. This is a much larger number than the school can conveniently hold, and more than one teacher can properly attend to unaided. The teacher possesses great energy, zeal, and the affection of the pupils, and in consequence conducts the school with more success than might be expected. Nevertheless, the school suffers from excessive crowding, and thus the very success of the school re-acts to its injury. The situation being close to the hospital, is injurious to the reputation of the school, and pupils have been removed from this cause alone. None of the pupils on entering this school had any knowledge of grammar and geography. Their attainments in these subjects, therefore, being merely the result of a short attendance at the primary school are necessarily low, but at the same time, show satisfactory progress. TOOWOOMBA (NON-VESTED). (Inspected 10th July, 20th November.) This school came under the supervision of the board on the 3rd April, under the management of a qualified teacher. It is held in a building, which is used on Sundays as a place of worship, and is large enough to contain 200 pupils. good. The attainments are low, the progress moderately satisfactory, and the discipline The average attendance is a very low per centage on the number on the roll. Of 93 pupils on the roll, only 57 were present at examination. WARWICK. (Inspected 6th and 7th February, 30th and 31st May, 5th and 6th October). During this year the school has been held in the new school, which is a handsome brick building, admirably furnished. The attendance has increased to such an extent that already the boys' portion of the school is inconveniently crowded. The pupils in both apartments have been steadily increasing in number, and improving in regularity, punctuality, discipline, attainments, and good tone, and the entire progress of the school, under the management of teachers of zeal and ability, has been highly satisfactory. The Ꭰ The range of subjects taught in the boys' school is unusually wide. A portion of the fifth class is engaged on Virgil and Cornelius Nepos, the third book of Euclid, and algebra as far as division, with fair success. The whole class is engaged on a course of bookkeeping; and in the subjects of grammar (including analysis), geography, vegetable physiology, and English history (reigns of James I. and Charles I.), gave very satisfactory answers. The other classes exhibit good attainments, and are distinguished by intelligence and interest in their work. In the girls' school, the fourth class, which was formerly the least satisfactory, has improved very much. The answers of this class in grammar and geography were exceedingly satisfactory. The junior classes have all been promoted since last inspection, and exhibit progress, animation, and interest in their work. In both apartments the writing is very good. 127 children were present at examination. WARRELL CREEK. This school is held in a well-furnished and suitable building, situated in the middle of an agricultural population, which does not appear to have increased in any perceptible degree during the last four years. At all events, the average attendance of pupils has remained nearly stationary throughout that period. Last year it was 38. The teacher has been unfortunate in incurring the ill-will of some of the parents of his pupils, and his efforts in the school have probably been impaired by this circumstance. It cannot, however, be said that the progress of the children for the year was unsatisfactory. In this outline report, the descriptions of all schools situated in what may be called the Country Districts, i.e., beyond a radius of thirty-five miles from Brisbane, have been contributed by Mr. Anderson, District Inspector, who, in the intervals between his long journeys, has given me valuable assistance in the examination of teachers and pupil teachers. A review of the state of the primary schools of the Colony during the past few years cannot, I think, fail to afford gratification to the Board and to the Parliament. Four years ago, i. e., in 1861, the aggregate number of children educated in the whole of the schools under the Board's control was 1,368. Last year, the average daily attendance within the municipality of Brisbane alone was 1,232, the aggregate being nearly twice that number. Education Office, 30th January, 1866. R. MACDONNELL, General Inspector. EXAMINATION PAPERS. [The papers on algebra, geometry, latin, and history were given to candidates for promotion to second class, who were likewise expected to answer the questions contained in the other papers, which are of the ordinary kind set to probationers before their final admission into the Board's service.] ART OF TEACHING. (Three hours allowed for this paper.) 1. State briefly your views as to the best method of teaching each of the following subjects:The alphabet, spelling, reading, grammar, geography, arithmetic, object lessons. 2. Write a time table for a school of 60 pupils (divided into 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th classes), where the subjects abovementioned are to be taught during five hours daily. 3. What means do you consider most effective for securing (I.) regularity and punctuality, (II.) order and discipline, (III.) personal cleanliness among pupils. 4. Give your opinion as to the subjects (if any) which might be learned "by rote"; also as to the advantages, or the contrary, of tasks, or home lessons.* 5. Write a brief sketch of the principal systems of education with which you are acquainted. Such, for example, as the " Lancastrian," "Pestalozzian," &c. ARITHMETIC. ARITHMETIC. (Three hours allowed for this paper.) 1. Distinguish between concrete and abstract quantities, and explain why one concrete quantity may be divided, but cannot be multiplied by another. 2. Show that the value of a fraction is not changed by multiplying or dividing both its terms by any one number. 3. Explain the meaning of the equation .9' 1. 4. Find the diagonal of a cubic yard. 5. How many times can .0087 be substracted from 2.291, and what will be the remainder? 6. Reduce 2.6' of £.877083' to the decimal of half a sovereign. 7. A pint contains 343 cubic inches; how many gallons of water will fill a cistern 4 feet 4 inches long, 2 feet 8 inches broad, and I foot 13 inches deep? 8. Divide £925 among A, B, C, and D, giving B 1 of A's portion, C3 of B's, and D half as much as B and C together. 9. A fruiterer by selling apples at the rate of 8 for 64d. gains 17 per cent., at what rate should he sell them per dozen to gain 20 per cent.? ALGEBRA. (Three hours allowed for this paper.) 1. What is the square root of a quantity? Distinguish between terms and factors; and define the meaning of monomial, irrational, imaginary, symmetrical, when applied to algebraical quantities. 2. Deduce the law,-" In multiplication like signs give plus, unlike minus." 4. Distinguish between an idendity and an equation; and prove that a quantity may be transferred from one side of an equation to the other with changed sign, without destroying the equality. 5. Resolve a-64y into its elementary factors. 9. There is a number of three digits, of which the last is double of the first; when the number is divided by the sum of the digits, the quotient is 22, and when by the product of the last two, 11. Find the number. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. (Three hours allowed for this paper.) 1. Write a short lesson on the different changes and inflections to which words are subject. 2. Explain the following expressions: Subject, predicate, object (direct and indirect), compound sentence, completion of predicate. 3. Paraphrase and analyse the following, and parse the words in italics :— (a) What would this man? Now upward will he soar, Now looking downwards, just as grieved appears, Made for his use all creatures if he call, (b.) Then came a postscript, dashed across the rest, We seem a nest of traitors,-none to trust, 4. Write notes of a short lesson on, and give examples of, the miscellaneous elements that EUCLID. Annex A. EUCLID. (Three hours allowed for this paper.) 1. Define a circle, a right angle, a rhomboid, the angle in a segment. 2. If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and one side equal to one side, viz., either the side which is adjacent to the equal angles in each, or the side which is opposite to the equal angles in each, they shall have the remaining sides equal to the remaining sides, each to each, and the third angle of the one to the third angle of the other. 3. If the square described upon one side of a triangle be equal to the squares described upon 4. Find a point in a straight line which shall be equally distant from two given points. 6. If a straight line touch a circle, the straight line which is drawn from the centre to the 7. The opposite angles of quadrilaterals described in circles are equal to two right angles. GEOGRAPHY. (Three hours allowed for this paper.) 1. Write a short lesson, as for pupils, of a third class on the geography (physical and political) of one of the following countries:-Germany, France, Russia. 2. Name the principal rivers (with their outlets) that flow from the following mountain. systems : (i.) In Europe - the Alps, Apennines, Carpathian, Mountains of Spain, Mountains of Germany. (ii.) In Asia-Himalayah, Ghauts, Altai, Hindo Koosh. (iii.) In America-Andes, Rocky Mountains, Alleghany Mountains 3. Draw an outline map of Scotland and the adjacent Islands. 4. Explain, as to a class of beginners, the causes of the changes in the seasons. 5. There is a large region in Asia where scarcely any rain falls. How do you account for this? 6. Give a brief account of the principal productions (animal, vegetable, and mineral) of the following countries and places:-Arabia, Antilles, Barbadoes, Bolivia, Ceylon, Mexico, Hungary, Japan, Lombardy, Madagascar, Orkneys, Persia, Silesia, Turkey in Asia, Westphalia. 1. (a) Of what cities did the Dorian Hexapolis consist? (b) Enumerate the twelve cities of Ionia, from south to north, and state which of them were colonised from Athens. 2. Give some account of the legislation (a) of Solon, and (b) of Pericles. 3. What was the cause of quarrel, and who were the leaders in each of the following wars and battles:-Messenian Wars, Peloponnesian War, Battle of Delium, of Himera, of Mycale? OF ROME 1. Give a short account of the origin, incidents, and results of the second Punic War. 2. Give a synopsis of the nature and scope of the Agrarian Laws of (a) Licinius, (b) of C. Gracchus, and (c) of Cæsar. 3. State briefly the history of the origin, extent, and abolition of the Tribunitian Power. OF ENGLAND 1. When, and by what means, was the Feudal System established in England? 2. Give some account of the origin of popular representation in Parliament. 3. Draw up, as for your pupils, a synopsis of the principal events (with dates) during the Plantagenet Dynasty. LATIN. (Three hours allowed for this paper.) CÆSAR. DE BELL. GALL. LIB. VII., CAP. LXXIII. 1. Translate-Erat eodem tempore et materiari* et frumentari et tantas munitiones* fieri necesse, deminutis nostris copiis,* quæ longius ab castris progrediebantur: ac non nunquam opera* nostra Galli tentare, atque eruptionem ex oppido pluribus portis summa vi* facere conabantur. Quare ad hæc rursus opera addendum Cæsar putavit, quo minore numero militum munitiones defendi possent. Itaque truncis arborum aut admodum firmis ramis abscisis, atque horum delibratis ac præacutis cacuminibus, perpetuæ fossæ, quinos pedes* alta, ducebantur. Huc illi stipites demissi et ab infimo revincti, ne revelli possent, ab ramis eminebant. Quini erant |