Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1874 – No. 20

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  1. What European rivers fall into the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the German Ocean, respectively? State, in what direction each flows, the countries through which it passes, and the towns situated on its banks.

  2. Give a list of the British Dependencies in the several quarters of the globe, with the natural productions of each.

  3. Describe as minutely as you can the route from New Zealand to England via San Francisco, and back via Suez.

  4. Describe the situation of Brindisi, Khiva, Quillimane, Kurrachee, Ormsk, Heligoland, Odessa.

  5. Draw on a small scale a rough map of Australia and New Zealand, showing the divisions between the Colonies or Provinces, and the site of the chief town of each.

  6. Draw a map of Asia, showing the degrees of latitude and longitude, the divisions of countries, the sites of the principal towns, and the course of the chief rivers.

GRAMMAR.

FIRST AND SECOND CLASSES.

  1. Parse—

"'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,
And ask them what report they bore to heaven,
And how they might have borne more welcome news."

  1. Parse—

"Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might even come to his seat."

  1. Analyse logically—

"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."

  1. Write and punctuate two passages read by the Examiner.

  2. Write (as a test in spelling) a list of words read by the Examiner.

Eccentric, exorbitant, pyramid, tranquillity, mischievous, dysentery,
susceptible, successful, sepulchral, committee, analogous, precede,
diocese, picturesque, separate, ceiling, parallelogram, hypocrisy,
calendar, almanac.

  1. What rules of Syntax do you consider fundamental?

  2. Subject for Essay:—
    Colonial Hindrances to Education.

  3. Define, explain, or illustrate the term "Pronoun," in such a way as to justify the application of the term to all classes of Pronouns.



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