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Professor GEORGE HENRY FREDERICK ULRICH, F.G.S., who fills the Chair of Mining and Mineralogy, and is Director of the School of Mines, Otago University, was born in Clausthal-Zillerfeld, Prussia, in 1830, and was educated in his native town at the High School and subsequently graduated at the Royal School of Mines, Clausthal, Hartz. Mr. Ulrich entered the government service in the mines department in his native land, and after serving four years resigned his position to accent an appointment in the Bolivia silver mines. Just as he was preparing for the journey to Bolivia news came of revolutionary movements in that country, in consequence of which his appointment was cancelled. He therefore turned his face to the Colonies, and went to Forest Creek, Victoria, in 1854. For nearly three years after his arrival in that Colony, Mr. Ulrich worked at the diggings of Forest Creek, Daisy Hill, Bendigo, and at other places, until he was appointed, in 1857, assistant secretary and draughtsman to the Royal Mining Commission in Victoria. Mr. Ulrich was afterwards appointed assistant field geologist under Mr. Selwyn in the geological department of Victoria. During the eleven years in which he was engaged under that department he assisted in the preparation of the plans of the different Victorian gold-fields, notably Forest Creek, Fryer’s Creek, and Tarrangower. In 1857, he obtained leave of absence for one year to visit the first exhibition of Paris, having a commission to procure a good selection of exhibits for the Melbourne technological museum. During Ills absence he travelled through Upper Hungary, and other parts of the Continent. On his return to Victoria, Mr. Ulrich wrote a little work on the methods of gold extraction at Schamnitz, Upper Hungary, giving drawings of machines and apparatus employed. He continued an officer of the geological survey department until its abolition in 1860. when he became curator of the mineral section under Mr. Newbery, superintendent of the industrial and technological museum, and lecturer in mining at the university of Melbourne, having at the same time right to practise as a consulting mining expert. Professor Ulrich was appointed by the South Australian Government to report on their copper mines and goldfields, and in 1875 he paid his first visit to New Zealand and reported upon the Otago goldfields. which report was published with Professor Hntton’s report on the geology of Otago. under direction of the provincial government. He was appointed to his present chair in 1898. He is a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Melbourne and the Tasmanian Royal Society, a fellow of the London Geological Society, a member of the American Institute of mining engineers, honorary member of the New Zealand Institute of mining engineers, and was one of the original members of the Australian Institute of mining engineers. Professor Ulrich was married in 1871 to a daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Spence, of Belfast, Ireland, and has four sons and three daughters.

Professor WILLIAM SALMOND, B.A., D.D., who fills the Chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy at the University of Otago, was born in Edinburgh in 1835, and was educated at Heriot’s Hospital, the High School, and University. Dr. Salmond graduated B.A. in 1853, became a Doctor of Divinity of Glasgow University in 1882, and of Edinburgh University three years later. He studied theology in Scotland and Germany for four years, and was ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of North Shields in the North of England, where he remained seventeen years. Dr. Salmond arrived at Port Chalmers in February, 1876, per ship “Corona.” He was professor of theology in the Presbyterian Church for ten years, and received the chair of mental and moral philosophy in 1886. He has been a member of the senate of the New Zealand university since 1882. He has published several sermons, lectures, and pamphlets, chiefly theological, and contributed largely to periodicals. The reverend gentleman was married at Dunfermline to a daughter of the Rev. James Young, by whom he has four sons and five daughters. His eldest son, Mr. J. W. Salmond, is an M.A., LL.B., fellow of London university and fills the chair of law at Adelaide university. His second son is a well known architect in Dunedin,

Professor FREDERICK BRYAN de MALBISSE GIBBONS, M.A., who fills the Chair of Mathematics, and is Lecturer on Political Economy at Otago University College, was born in Surrey, England, in 1854. He was educated at Merchant Taylors” School, London, and at Cains College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1877 and M.A. in 1890, being second wrangler of the mathematical tripos, and afterwards fellow of Cains. Mr. Gibbons was called to the English Bar by the Society of Gray’s Inn in 1881, and practised his profession in South Wales for three years. Arriving in Lyttelton per s.s “Ionic” in 1884, he was soon after admitted a barrister and solicitor of the supreme court, and was in practice in Christchurch till 1886. He was appointed professor of mathematics in the same year, and lecturer on political economy in 1895. Mr. Gibbons is a member of the committee of the Philosophical Society, and of the New Zealand Institute. He is an English Freemason, but unattached in the Colony.

Professor THOMAS GILRAY, M.A., F.K.S.K., who fills the Chair of English Language and Literature at Otago University, was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1851, was educated at the High School of Edinburgh, where he gained twenty-eight prizes, as well as the Carson medal for the best essay on “Spencer’s Life and Poetry,” and the medal for being dux of the whole school in English. Professor Gilray subsequently studied at the University of Edinburgh, obtaining the degree of M.A. with honours in classics, the Greek travelling fellowship and the Earl of Derby’s rectorial prize for the best essay on the “Foreign Policy of the Pitt Administration of 1757-61.” He subsequently studied at Berlin and Heidelberg universities and was afterwards elected fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Professor Gilray held some important positions before coming to New Zealand. He was assistant to the professors of rhetoric and English literature for three years, and for nearly three years was one of the English masters in the senior department of George Watson’s college and assisted the headmaster in the general management of the school. He was English examiner to the Edinburgh University local examination board for three years and for nearly three years was head English master at the Glasgow academy. During his last six years in Scotland, Professor Gilray was professor of English language and literature in the university college of Dundee. It may be remarked that Mr. Gilray is the contributor of about thirty biographies to a recent edition of the “Encyclopaedia Britannica.” He was appointed to the chair he now holds in the University of Otago in 1880. Since settling in Dunedin Professor Gilray has been a member of the Dunedin Savage club and has delivered several lectures on subjects of literary interest, one on “Great Public Speakers” was reproduced in the “Star” newspaper, another on “Shakespere as a Historical Dramatist,” another on the “Humour of Shakespere.” Mr. Gilray is a member of the Otago golf club, has taken a considerable interest in the students’ debating society, and has been frequently called upon to deliver lectures in connection with various literary societies in Canterbury and Otago. He is an enthusiastic student and was the bearer of a very large number of valuable testimonials from professors in the universities of Edinburgh and Dundee. Professor Gilray has been very successful with his students at the university, who have succeeded in gaining distinction at various examinations. Professor Gilray was married in 1880 to a daughter of the late Mr. Colin Maedonald, and has four sons and a daughter.

Doctor DANIEL COLQUHOUN, Lecturer on the practice of medicine to the University of Otago, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, where he was educated. He studied medicine at the Charing Cross Hospital, London, took his degree as M.R.C.S.. England, in 1877, and as M.D, and M.R.C.P. in 1880. He became assistant physician at the Charing Cross Hospital, London, and one of the lecturers of the Charing Cross medical school, and conducted a private practice in London for two years before coming to the Colonies in 1884. He then accepted the position of lecturer on the practice of medicine to the University of Otago, and also established a private practice, which he has since conducted. Dr. Colquhouu is one of the physicians of the Dunedin Hospital.

BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE OTAGO GIRLS AND BOYS HIGH SCHOOLS. Members:—Messrs. J. F. M. Fraser (chairman), G. G. Russell, J. M. Gallaway, J. R. Sinclair, J. Alien, M.H.R., E. B. Cargill, and Dr. W. Brown. Office, Colonial Bank Buildings, Water Street, Dunedin; secretary, Mr. C. Macandrew. This body is charged with the management of the Otago Boys and Girls High Schools, further particulars of these important secondary educational establishments will be found in the pages of this volume of the “Cyclopedia” [Dr. W. Brown has recently been elected chairman.

Dr.WILLIAM BROWN, M.A., who is Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Boys and Girls’ High Schools, and a member of the Education Board, and at one time its chairman, has been a prominent medical man in Dunedin for about a quarter of a century. He was born in 1843, in Banffshire, Scotland, and was educated at the Gymnasium of Old Aberdeen and at the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, graduated M.A., at the former in 1867, and M.B. C.M. at the latter in 1870. Before coming to New Zealand, Dr. Brown was engaged in the practice of his profession in China for three years. Settling in Dunedin in 1874, he established his present practice. He has been an honorary surgeon of the Dunedin hospital since 1875, and was lecturer on surgery in Otago University until quite recently. Dr. Brown has long taken a general interest in out-door recreation, at the time of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition he was president of the New Zealand Amateur athletic association, and is captain of the Otago golf club. He was married in 1871 to a daughter of M’-. John Johnston, of Edinburgh, and had one daughter who died in childhood.

THE OTAGO BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL of to-day has been evolved from the struggles of the early settlers who realised the advantages to be attained by a thorough system of secondary education. In the first session of the provincial council of Otago, the late Mr. James Macandrew made a proposal to establish a high school in Dunedin, and in 1856 provision was made for the foundation of such a school to be named the High School of Dunedin. This establishment, however, in those early days turned out very much of a primary nature, at which Wonder need hardly be expressed. In December, 1860. Mr. Macandrew’s government, dissatisfied with what had been accomplished, brought in a Bill making free provision for a high school proper. This measure became law in 1861, the High School of Otago being constituted for the instruction of girls as well as boys. In 1862 and 1864, further educational ordinances were passed under which the school was administered till the General Assembly passed the “Otago Boys and Girls’ High School Act.” The Otago Boys’ High School, which was first opened in 1863 in the buildings since occupied by the Girls’ High School, is now conducted in a very flue stone structure erected in the year 1884. This building occupies one of the best sites in the city, facing Arthur street, and is one of the handsomest and most convenient of its kind in the Colony. It has two com-mauding towers, the main tower being at the front, and the lesser one at the rear of the building. Entering the main hall by a centre door, the visitor finds himself in a spacious apartment to the right of which are the rector’s waiting-room, and reception-room, with the master’s room on the left. There are two brasses facing the door, one of which is in memory of tbe late Rev. D. M. Stuart, D.D., who was for fourteen years chairman of the board of governors of the Boys and Girls’ High School and who died in 1894; the other contains the names of the rectors of the school from its foundation. The first on the roll is the name of Mr. T. H. Campbell, M.A., who was drowned together with his family, In coming up the harbour from Port Chalmers in 1863, before he had taken charge of the school. The other names, together with the terms during which those gentlemen had charge of the school, are as follows:—Messrs. F. C. Simmonds, M.A., 1864-1868, S. Hawthorne, M.A., 1860-1874, W. Norrie, M.A., 1875-1878, W. Macdonald, LL.D, 18781883, and H. Belcher, LL.D., 1886-1805. The main hall of the building is entered by folding-doors; this is a very fine chamber and has a large gallery entirely surrounding it capable of accommodating six or seven hundred people. It is used for the purpose of any general gathering of the pupils, and for devotions. There are no less than five doors connecting the hall with other parts of the building, so as to afford easy egress and ingress. In the centre is a large and convenient platform, with reading-desk. Surrounding this handsome hall, which is adorned with very beautiful pictures of old architecture, there are ten class-rooms on the ground floor. At one end of the gallery is a room devoted to drawing and at the other there are two class-rooms, one of them being used as a chemistry lecture-room and is well appointed for the purpose. The view of the city and harbour from the main tower is a very fine and extensive one, and includes the St. Clair and Ocean beaches. Surrounding the school is a wide play-ground with two fives-courts and three large covered sheds for recreation during wet weather. There is also a very large gymnasium with a wooden floor modelled on the plan of the well-known gymnasium at Aldershot. The rector’s house adjoins the High School. The cricket ground has been levelled and laid off by subscriptions from the boys, their parents and friends, and from the proceeds of gymnastic entertainments given by the scholars. The staff of the Boys’ High School consists of Mr. Wilson, M.A., rector; M. Watson, M.A., acting-rector and classical master; T. D. Pearce, M.A., English master; IX Brent, M.A., mathematical master; G. M. Thomson, F.L.S., science master; J. Macpherson, commercial master; D. Sheriff, mechanical drawing-master; Messrs. F. H. Campbell, M.A., C. H. Broad, B.A., and E. T. Norris, M.A., are assistant-masters, and Mr. J. Hanna is instructor in gymnastics.

Mr. MUNGO WATSON, Acting-Rector of the Boys’ High School in the absence of Mr. Wilson, the Rector, who is on a visit to England, also fills the position of Classical Master. He was born in 1857 in Ayrshire, Scotland, and was educated at Ayr Academy, and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A. in 1879, taking first class honours in classics; he also took the Gray scholarship in the same year. He commenced his career as a teacher as assistant classical master first in Ayr Academy and subsequently at Glasgow Academy, in each of which institutions he remained for about eighteen months. Mr. Watson was engaged in Scotland, owing to the ill-health of the then rector, Dr. Macdonald, and came out to New Zealand as assistant-rector to the Boys’ High School. He arrived in Dunedin via Melbourne in 1883. since which time he has been a prominent member of the school staff, having performed the duties of classical master from the first. Mr. Watson was married in 1887 to a daughter of Mr. Bowler, runholder, of Balclutha, and has two sons and a daughter.

Mr. THOMAS DAVID PEARCE, M.A., English Master at the Otago Boys’ High School, was born at Caversham in 1869, and was educated at the Caversham Public School, Boys’ High School, and Otago University. He graduated B.A. in 1891 and M.A. in the following year with first class honours In Latin and English. During his school course he held both junior and senior provincial scholarships, and proceeded to the university with the Richardson scholar-ship. Mr. Pearce was appointed assistant-master at the Boys’ High School in 1892, and in the following year became English master at Nelson College, returning to Otago in 1895 to take up the duties of the position he now holds. While in Nelson, Mr. Pearce continued his interest in football, and played in the intercolonial match against New South Wales, and in the inter-provincial match against South Canterbury. He was married in 1895 to the third daughter of the late Mr. James Speight.

Mr. DANIEL BRENT, M.A., Mathematical Master of the Otago Boys’ High School, is the oldest member of the staff of the institution. He arrived in the Colony in 1863 per ship “Matoaka” in company with the Rev. Mr. Campbell, the first rector, who was drowned on his way from Port Chalmers to Dunedin. Mr. Brent studied at Cambridge University, where he graduated with first class honours in 1860. During the period that Mr. Brent has been connected with the high school (says “Picturesque Dunedin”) he has “invariably acquitted himself with singular judgment and prudence, and has ever maintained the most cordial relations with the board and his colleagues, while in times of difficulty he has rendered most valuable assistance to the school authorities, either by performing the duties of acting-rector in a highly satisfactory manner, or by cooperating heartily with one or the other of his colleagues, who had undertaken the duties.” Mr. Brent resides in a pretty spot at Maori Hill, and during his residence in that suburb, has been for about ten years a member of the Maori Hill borough council, and mayor for several years. Mr. Brent is author of “The School Euclid,” Books I.-VI.. published by Messrs. Rivingtons, London. A valuable feature of this work consists in the presentation of the propositions in the form best adapted for written school work, and the interpolation of numerous easy problems as exercises on the several propositions

Mr. GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON, F.L.S., Science Master at the Boys and Girls’ High Schools, was born in Calcutta in 1848; educated at Edinburgh High School and University, he was for three years afterwards in a merchant’s office in London. Owing to the failure of the Agra Bank, Mr. Thomson’s family came to New Zealand, arriving in Southland in 1868. where he was engaged in farming pursuits at Mabel Bush for three years. In 1871, he came to Dunedin, and in the following year joined the staff of the High Schools, and has filled the position of science master since 1877. Mr. Thomson has long been a student of botany and zoology, and has published several works, among others “Fern and Fern Allies of New Zealand,” issued by Wise, Caffin and Co., of Dunediu, and Kobertson and Co., of Melbourne, and “An Introductory Text-book of Botany,” issued by the Government printing offices. Numerous papers from his pen on botany and botanical subjects, on “Crustacea,” on geographical distribution and on acclimatisation, have been published in the “Transactions and Proceedings” of the New Zealand Institute, of the Linueau Society of London, tho Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Tasmanian Royal Society, and the Australian Association. Mr. Thomson was one of the founders of the Technical School in 188!), and has been honorary secretary and superintendent since its establishment. He was for many years secretary, and afterwards president, of the Otago Institute, is now president of the Dunedin Field club, and has been an active member of the Otago Acclimatisation society for many years. In this latter connection, he has been the chief mover in attempts to introduce marine fishes in New Zealand seas. He was chief promoter and is now president, of the Dunedin city mission. Mr. Thomson was married in 1876 to Emma, eldest daughter of the late Mr. James Alien of Hopehill, East Taieri; this lady died in 1894, leaving four sons and a daughter.

Mr. JOHN MACPHERSON, F.E.I.S., Commercial master at the Otago Boys’ High School, was born in Argyleshire, Scotland, in 1851. He received his education at the parochial school, Edinburgh Training College, and Glasgow University, and was elected a fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland in 1885. In 1872, Mr. Macpherson received a teacher’s certificate from the education department, and was senior assistant master at the Renfrew grammar school. Subsquently he became head-master of the Bothwell public school, near Glasgow, where he remained for five years, and came to Port Chalmers in 1885 per s.s. “Mararoa,” via Hobart. Mr. Macpherson is a member of the Otago golf club and of the Otago club. He was married in 1891 to a daughter of the late Mr. Kenneth Gunn. of Melbourne, and has one son and one daughter.

Mr. FRANK CAMPBELL, M.A., one of the Assistant Masters of the Otago Boys’ High School, is the second son of the late Mr. George Campbell of Dunedin. He was born in the capital city of Otago, and was educated at the Boys’ High School and Otago University, where he graduated B.A. and M.A. with honours in Latin and German. He was appointed to the position he now holds on leaving the university. Mr. Campbell has long taken a keen interest in athletics and is a member of the committee of management of the Otago Rugby football union and of the match committee. Mr. Campbell was married to a daughter of the late Mr. Alexander Montgomery, formerly head-master of the Normal school.

Mr. C. H. BROAD, B.A., one of the Assistant Masters of the Otago Boys’ High School, who is the second son of the late Judge Broad, was born in Nelson in 1872. He was educated at Nelson College, where he gained several scholarships, and graduated B.A. at Auckland University College in 1893. Mr. Broad commenced his career as a teacher at Nelson College, where he was an assistant master for a period of four years, being appointed at Easter, 1897, to the position he now holds. During his residence in Nelson he took a considerable interest in cricket and was for several years captain of the Nelson College cricket club. Mr. Broad played in several representative matches, and was successful in winning numerous trophies. Since coming to Dunedin he has been a member of the Carisbrook cricket club, and was one of the representatives in a recent inter-provincial match against Canterbury. He is also a member of the Otago tennis club, and an old footballer.

Mr. EDWIN THOMAS NORRIS, M.A., one of the Assistant Masters of the Otago Boys’ High School, was born in London in 1870. He is the son of Mr. T. C. Norris, secretary of the Charitable Aid Board, Christ-church, and was educated at the Christchurch Boys’ High School. Mr. Norris took his B.A. degree in 1892 and the M.A. degree with first-class honours in English in the following year. He commenced his career as a teacher at Mr. Charles Cook’s school, Christchurch, where he remained for a period of four years; he was appointed assistant master to the Timaru High School in 189G, and to the position he now holds in 1898. Mr. Norris is interested in cricket and football, and during his residence at Timaru had charge of the school games club. He was captain for two years of the Timaru High School Cadet corps. He is a member of the Otago Rowing club, and is also a cyclist. At Canterbury College, he was the first secretary of the Canterbury College Graduates’ association.

Mr. JOHN HANNA, Gymnastic Instructor at the Boys and Girls’ High Schools, and to the Otago Education Board, was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1857. He was trained professionally as a gymnastic master at Aldershot, having enlisted in the Scots Guards in 1878. served two years at Chelsea and six months at Aldershot, where he got a first-class certificate for fencing, boxing, and gymnastics. Mr. Hanna was then appointed instructors to the Chelsea Gymnasium, and subsequently instructor to the Aberdeen Grammar School, Church of Scotland Training College, and Aberdeen Gymnastic club, which position he held for over two years. Mr. Hanna was the successful applicant for the appointment of instructor for Dunedin, and came out to the Colony per s.s. “Tongariro” in 1884, since which time he has been most successful in his duties and in training many proficient gymnasts, and has had no accident with any of his pupils. Mr. Hanna has been prominently connected with various local sports and gymnastic performances, and has often given entertainments in aid of local and charitable objects. He has also been a teacher of swimming at the Girls’ High School, and most of the gymnasiums in connection with the public schools have been erected under his direction. The gymnasium at the Boys’ High School is one of the best in the Colony, the horizontal bar being no less than sixty feet long, thirty pupils at a time being able to exercise upon it. Mr. Hanna started the cadet corps at the school, which has been a great success. He was married in 1881 to Miss Pyne. of Devonshire, and has four sons and four daughters.

THE RECTORY (Boys’ High School Boarding-house), is erected on an elevated plateau above the school about three or four acres in extent, and is pleasantly surrounded by gardens, ornamental grounds, and pretty patches of native bush. It is a large building erected in brick, stone, and wood, and contains, in addition to a very convenient suite of rooms for the manager, a large dining-hall about 39 x 18, with kitchen, scullery, and different out-offices. There are three dormitories on the ground floor together with a convenient bathroom, and six dormitories with three bathrooms on the upper floor, there being altogether accommodation for about forty boys. There is a large school-room which is used for preparation study in the evenings, and in the day time as a preparatory school conducted by Mr. Thomas S. Baker, B.A., who is manager of the “Rectory.”

Mr. THOMAS SOUTHEY BAKER, B.A., Manager of the Boarding-house, Otago Boys’ High School, hails from Droxford, Hampshire, England, where he was born in 1848. He was educated at Lancing College, Sussex, and at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mr. Baker took his B.A. degree in 1871. He was an assistant master for a short time at the Whitgift school, Croyden, which position he resigned for a travelling tutor-ship, and in 1873 he embarked for the colonies per ship “Dallam Tower,” which was totally dismasted on the voyage. Mr. Baker came out with the intention of engaging in the flax industry, but on arrival in Auckland found this in such an unsatisfactory state that he decided to have nothing to do with it, and removed to Canterbury, where he took the property known as “French Farm” at Akaroa, and established a private preparatory school, which he conducted, as well as working the farm, till 1890. Mr. Baker’s school was well supported by many leading families in various parts of the Colony. In 1890, he removed to Hobart, where he remained for nearly two years, returning to this colony in 1892 and established the “Goodwood House” preparatory school near Palmerston. This school he successfully conducted till May, 1896, when he was appointed manager of the boarding-house, called the “Rectory,” at the Boys’ high school, with the right to conduct his own school on the premises. He has been well known as an athlete, having won many trophies both at Lancing, and at the University. He is an old “Blue,” having rowed in the ‘”Varsity” boat races for Oxford against Cambridge in 1869-70-71. He won the championship at athletic sports held at Timaru in 1878, and also represented Canterbury against the first Australian cricket team that visited New Zealand. Mr. Baker was married in 1878, to a daughter of Mr. Thomas Dickon, of Christchurch.

THE GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL of Otago, which occupies a block of about two acres of land extending from Rattray Street to Dowling and Smith Streets, opposite the Roman Catholic Cathedral, was originally built for a Boys’ High School and has been used for its present purpose since the large building was erected for the latter iu 1884. The Girls’ High School is a substantial brick structure, and includes a boarding-house where there is accommodation for thirty boarders, besides the school buildings proper. The boarding-house has a large dining-hall which will seat forty, and a considerable number of dormitories, each girl being provided with a separate bedroom. There are also six bathrooms, as well as sitting-rooms, and studios, besides the principal’s and matron’s apartments, kitchen, and out-offices. The portion of the building devoted to the school proper has an imposing Corinthian front with some eight or ten handsome pillars. In the large school hall, which will accommodate about one hundred and fifty girls, are very fine oil paintings, one by Signor Nerli of the late Rev. Dr. Stuart, which was presented by the founders of the Girls’ High School and members of the High School club; also an oil painting of the late Sir John Richardson, another of Miss Dalrymple (who was secretary of the committee formed in 1870 to establish the school), and an enlarged photograph of Mrs. M. Gordon Burn (first principal of the school). Besides this large hall, there are six class-rooms, two of them being on the ground floor and four of them on the first floor; there is also a considerable library. The out-buildings, which are connected by means of covered-ways, include a fine studio with two rooms devoted, respectively, to junior and senior scholars, and a splendid gymnasium, well fitted up with clubs, poles, rings, ladders, and all needful appliances, and has also a piano. The science laboratory is fitted up for chemical and biological instruction, and is well furnish’, d with chemical apparatus and microscopes, etc. Two large play-sheds and cloak-room complete the outbuildings. In the grounds are two tennis-courts and two fives-courts. The Girls’ High School was originally founded in 1870, Mrs. M. Gordon Burn being the first principal. On that lady’s retirement in 1885, Mr. Alex. Wilson, M.A., became principal, and on his appointment to the position of rector of the Boys’ High School ten years later, the present principal was appointed.

Miss M. E. ALLMAN MARCHANT, Principal of the Girls’ High School of Otago, was born in Wellington. She is the eldest daughter of Mr. J. W. A. Marchant, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for the Wellington district, and was educated at private schools in Wellington, and at the high school, of which she was dux in 1887. She studied in connection with the New Zealand University while in Wellington, and passed her examinations at Canterbury College, Christchurch, taking the M.A. degree in 1894. Miss Marchant commenced to teach at Mrs. Swainson’s private school in Wellington in 1880, and two years later was appointed to the Wellington Girls’ high school, where she taught till 1895, when she was appointed to her present position.

Miss KATHERINE BROWNING, Mathematical Teacher, Otago Girls’ High School, was born at Oxford, England, and was educated at Blenheim House School, Reading. Miss Browning was three years at Girton College, Cambridge, and passed the moral science tripos in 1886. She taught for a short time at the Church of England Girls’ high school, Ramsgate, and for seven years at the Girls’ high school, Napier, New Zealand. She received her present appointment in February, 1895.

THE EDUCATION BOARD of the District of Otago, together with its secretary and treasurer, Mr. P. G. Pryde, is fully referred to on pages 15 and 16 of the section already published.

Mr. PETER GOYEN, F.L.S., one of the Inspectors of the Otago Education Board, was born in St. Austell, Cornwall, England, and came out to Victoria with his parents at an early age. He was trained as a teacher at the Melbourne Training College, under the late Mr. Dixon, and occupied positions as assistant teacher and head master in important schools in Victoria. When the Southland district was made into a separate educational district in 1878. Mr. Goyen was chosen out of a large number of applicants for the position of inspector for the newly formed district. He entered upon his duties with energy and worked with great enthusiasm and marked success, proving himself an inspector of no mean order. He was appointed to the inspectorial staff of the Otago board In 1882. Mr. Goyen is well known as the author of a number of educational works, among which may be mentioned “The Principles of English Composition,” “Higher Arithmetic and Mensuration,” aud “Companion to Higher Arithmetic, which were published by Messrs. Macmillan and Co., of London, and have gained a wide reputation. Mr. Goyen has also written some smaller useful educational works, and several papers on the “Arachnida of New Zealand.” He was elected a fellow of the Linuean Society of London, in 1888, and is an enthusiastic botanist and arachnologist.

Mr. WILLIAM SANDERSON FITZGERALD, one of the Inspectors of Schools for the Otago Board of Education, came to New Zealand in 1861. While first assistant in the senior department of St. John’s Grammar School, Hamilton, he was appointed by the colonial committee of the Free Church of Scotland to the Pigeon Bay academy, a well-known day and boarding school in Canterbury in connection with the Presbyterian Church. This position he filled until 1869, when he became rector of the Oamaru gram mar school. He was subsequently appointed principal of the Dunedin Normal school and also rector of the Training College, entering upon his duties in January, 1876. Mr. Fitzgerald held this appointment until September 1894, when he joined the inspecting-staff of the Otago education board in the capacity stated above. The New Zealand educational institute was constituted on lines laid down by Mr. Fitzgerald, and he was the first president of its council.

Mr. CHARLES REYNOLDS DALTON RICHARDSON, B.A., one of the Assistant-Inspectors under the Otago Education Board, was born in Roxburgh, Otago, was educated at the local school, where also he entered upon his pupil-teachership at the age of fourteen. After a short course at the Normal School, Mr. Richardson matriculated at Otago University and took his I), certificate as a teacher. He was then appointed head-master of a small country school on the goldfields, and two years later was appointed junior relieving-teacher to the board, rising to the position of senior relieving-teacher, in which capacity lie served for nine years. During his professional career. Mr. Richardson studied in connection with the University and obtained his B.A. degree in 1893. In August 1894, he was appointed rector of the Balclutha High School; on the death of late Inspector Taylor he became acting-inspector, then assistant-inspector in January 1895. He has been an energetic and indefatigable worker, and as relieving-teacher has filled every position in the service of the board from a junior assistant to the more onerous and responsible one of head-master in the largest school in the district. Apart from his scholastic career he is a good athlete and a keen angler.

Mr. CHARLES RICHARD BOSSENCE, one of the Assistant Inspectors of the Otago Education Board, claims Victoria as his birthplace, and served as a pupil-teacher In one of the large schools of the sister Colony. After completing his course of studies in the Victorian Training College under the late Mr. Gladman, he was put on the relieving staff of the Victorian education board for some time. Afterwards he was appointed an assistant at Footscray public school. In 1882 Mr. Bossence was selected out of a large number of applicants as head master of the model school at the Christchurch training college. He was next appointed first assistant at the district high school at the Thames, which position he occupied until he received the above appointment of assistant inspector, in January, 1895.

Mr. JOHN HISLOP, LL.D.,F.B.S.,Ediu., is an ex-secretary and inspector of the board. The subject of this notice was born in 1821 at Pentland, Midlothian. He was educated at Edinburgh and succeeded in gaining the first prizes in all classes he attended at the Edinburgh School of Arts, now the Watt College, and at the conclusion of the prescribed course was awarded its diploma. In his eighteenth year he became assistant master at the Burnt-island grammar school, and after two years was appointed assistant master in the school at Lasswade, his native parish. He afterwards attended the Normal school and Edinburgh University, and was successively a master at the parish schools at Coliuton, Cults, and Kirknewton, in which last school he remained nearly twelve years. In 1855, Mr. Hislop applied for and obtained an appointment as a teacher under the provincial government of Otago, and arrived in Port Chalmers on the 2^nd of October, 1856, per ship “Strathmore.” His first school in Otago was at East Taieri, where he remained four and a half years. In 1861, he was appointed secretary to the education board and inspector of schools in Otago, and performed the difficult and arduous duties of the dual office for a number of years. He has had a large share in the establishment of the Boys’ and Girls’ high schools, Teachers’ training school, school of art, and the district high school. On the establishment of the Otago University, in 1869, Mr. Hislop became its first secretary and registrar, from which office he retired in 1871. On the establishment of the Caversham industrial school in 1869, the duty of organising and supervising was entrusted to Mr. Hislop, in conjunction with the late Mr. St. John Branigan. For” some years prior to his leaving Dunedin in 1878, Mr. Hislop was a member of the committee of the Benevolent Institution He also took much interest in the Caledonian society’s evening classes for youths. Among other offices filled by him, way that of superintendent census enumerator for Otago under the Colonial Government. A record of the services rendered to the public by Dr. Hislop would be incomplete without reference to the Education Bill, which was drafted by him and passed its second reading in the House of Representatives in 1871. The measure was subsequently dropped, and it was not till the session of 1877 that the Education Act, embodying the greater proportion of the clauses drafted by Mr. Hislop came into force, lie became the first secretary of the newly formed education board, on the duties of which office he entered in January, 1878. He was presented on leaving Dunedin, with a massive silver vase and an address from 165 teachers who bad served under him, as a token of their gratitude, confidence, and goodwill. About the same time he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Early in 1882, when the education department had been brought into good working order. Mr. Hislop was granted a year’s leave of absence to visit Great Britain. Before leaving the Colony, he was entertained at a public dinner in Otago, and a sum of money was placed in his hands with which to procure a life size portrait of himself in oils. The painting, which was obtained from Horsburgh, Edinburgh, now adorns the walls of the university library. For his well known services in the cause of education, the Senatus of the University of Edinburgh—his own “alma mater”—conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. on the occasion of his visit to the Old Country. Returning to New Zealand, Dr. Hislop resumed his position in the education department, from which he retired in March, 1880. Since that time he has resided in Dunedin, rendering useful services in various public capacities, as member of the hospital board of trustees, Otago education board, and Dunedin city council. At the time of writing, Dr. Hislop is chairman of Otago industrial school board of advice, visiting justice of the Dunedin gaol, member of the committee for periodically readjusting the parliamentary districts of the Colony, director of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company, Ltd., and supervisor in Dunedin for examinations for matriculation degrees at the university. Dr. Hislop has long been an elder of Kuox church, and is a member of the Masonic Order, in which he has held the position of grand master of Freemasons under the Scottish constitution. He was married in 1846 to Miss .J. Home, of Caithness-shire, and has four son-;—Messrs. Walter, John A., Thomas William, and G. R. Hislop —all well known in the Colony, and one daughter, widow of the late Dr. Hugh Macdonald, of Lyttelton.

THE DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN, which occupies the upper portion of the Normal School in Moray Place, was founded in 1870 by the Provincial Council of Otago for the purpose of training teachers and pupil-teachers for the public schools, and for the teaching of drawing and painting as a part of general education. The courses of instruction comprise freehand, including drawing from the antique figure and living model, ornamental design, practical, plane, and solid geometry, perspective, building construction, machine drawing, painting in oil, tempera and water colours, as well as modelling, moulding, and casting. These courses are open to the public, as follows:—For students attending five days per week, £1 Is. per quarter of ten weeks; evening classes, 10s. 6.d. per quarter for two evenings per week: teachers and pupil-teachers of the public schools, free. Students may join at any time. The annual session commences on the second day of February and ends on the second Friday in December. During the year ended December, 1897, there were 409 students, an increase of fifteen as compared with the previous year. This total included 103 teachers and pupil teachers, thirty-five students in training, 114 who attended day classes, and 157 attending evening classes. At the examination of the science and art department held in 1897, fifty-six passed in freehand, sixty-one in model, twenty-four in light and shade, and twenty in practical geometry; and in the advanced stages, nineteen passed in free hand, twelve in model, seventeen in light and shade, two in drawing from the antique, nine in practical, plane, and solid geometry, ten in building construction, six in machine construction and drawing, and two in perspective. The school comprises a large general class-room, painting-room, modelling-room, and cast-room. The latter has a large and carefully selected assortment of casts, valued at some hundreds of pounds, which were imported from Brucciani, London, a well-known agent of the science and art department. These casts were mostly brought to the Colony in 1870 by the art master. Mr. Button. The walls of the various rooms are covered with specimens of paintings and drawings from the works of several well known artists, these being the property of the art master. The accommodation of the school of art and design is equal to 150 pupils. The art master is sup ported by one assistant, two pupil-teachers in the art department, and masters for building construction and mechanical drawing.

Mr. DAVID CON HUTTON, Principal of the Dunedin School of Art and Design, hails from Dundee, where he was born in 1843. and was educated at the public schools of his native city. He began his professional career as a student of the Dundee School of Art, and gained a free studentship after his first year. He was appointed an art pupil teacher in 1859 at the same institution, under Mr. John Kennedy. He studied modelling at the same time under Mr. Guthrie and gained several prizes and medals including two national medallions for that and other classes of work. About the same time lie issued the “Freehand Drawing” series which were adopted in various schools. He completed his pupil-teachership with distinction in 1863, and gained an art master’s certificate. A year later, Mr. Button won a science certificate for practical, plane, and solid geometry, and in 1865, was appointed art master at the Perth school of arts. The provincial council of Otago. through the agent-general in Scotland, selected Mr. Hutton for the appointment of provincial drawing master, and early in 1870, he arrived at Port Chalmers in the ship “Christian McCausland.” He lost no time in establishing the school of art, and set about the work of instruction at the various schools with the most commendable results. Mr. Hutton was married in 1872 to a daughter of the late Mr. A. Douglas, chief clerk in the General Post Office, Edinburgh, by whom he has five sons and five daughters. One of his sons is assistant art master in the Dunedin school of art.

THE NORMAL TRAINING COLLEGE AND SCHOOL in Moray Place West, Dunedin, is conducted in a large two-storied brick building. The upper storey is occupied by the School of Art and Design, and the lower storey and adjoining buildings by the school and college classes. There are seventeen separate class-rooms, fourteen of which are used for the normal school and the three others for training college purposes. There is besides, a science room in the basement storey fitted up as a laboratory for giving the students training and practice in scientific work. The school is surrounded by asphalted play-grounds, in one of which stands a large gymnasium fully equipped with the necessary apparatus for a good course of physical exercises. At the time of the writer’s visit, there were seven hundred and thirty pupils on the school roll. In tho training college classes there were forty-four students in attendance. The staff of the institution includes the principal. Mr. D. R. White. M.A.. Messrs. William Gray. M.A., vice-principal. D. C. Hutton. teacher of drawing, A. M. Kraik, teacher of singing, Miss L. A. Fitzgerald, instructress in sewing, and Mr. John Hanna (gymnastics), besides three male and three female teachers, and eight pupil-teachers.

Mr. DAVID RENFREW WHITE, M.A., Principal of the College, and Rector of the School, was born in Edinburgh. He was brought by his parents to Tasmania in 1855 where he attended Chalmer’s school, a private -school for boys, attached to Chalmer’s Presbyterian church, Hobart. He came as a lad to Dunedin in the beginning of 1862’, and at that time was uncertain what course of work to follow up, trying for some time different manual occupations. During this time he continued to keep up his studies, and finally made up his mind to enter the teaching profession. He presented himself, in 1872, for the first public teachers’ examination held in Otago, and having passed, was offered an appointment at the St. Leonard’s school, West Otago harbour. He next received a subordinate position in the Union Street school, and in 1878, was appointed first assistant to the High Street school. At the request of the education board and school committee, he decided to accept a similar position at the Union Street school, which lie held for some five years. Whilst engaged in teaching, Mr. White found opportunity to attend the Otago University classes, graduating B.A. in 1883, and M.A. with honours in political science in the following year. He was the first teacher in the province of Otago to obtain the New Zealand Education Department Al certificate. This certificate is presented to those teachers only who graduate with honours and who received the maximum marks for length of service, and skill and proficiency in the art of teaching. Mr. White was up-pointed head master of the normal school in 1885, and was also a member of the training college staff, as lecturer on English language and literature. He held this dual position for ten years, and in 1893 was promoted to be principal of the training college, and head of the school. Mr. White has been in the service of the Otago education board for a period of twenty-six years, and has done a great deal for the Otago and New Zealand educational institutes. He was for eight years secretary of the former body, and afterwards president. He was one of the founders of the New Zealand Educational Institute—its first secretary, afterwards president, and also a member of the executive for several years. Mr. White is a member of the Otago University council. He was the first representative of the graduates, elected to the council for five years, and re-elected without opposition in 1897, for another term of office. He has also shown considerable interest in other educational bodies. He was a member of the Dunedin Athenaeum for eight years, and afterwards chairman of this body. He has been a member of the Dunedin technical classes association since its establishment, and has taken an active part in its management. He was also on the committee of the Dunedin Kindergarten association, and for three years acted as examiner for the society in the art and principles of the kindergarten system.

Mr. WILLIAM GRAY. M.A., Vice-principal of the Normal Training College, Moray Place, Dunedin. was born in 1869. at Milton, and was educated primarily at the Wairuna public school, Clinton. Mr. Gray became a pupil-teacher at the Arthur street school. Dunedin, where he served four years, gaining a teacher’s D. certificate at the end of the term. He was then appointed fourth assistant at Mornington. which position he retained for three years, when he was promoted second assistant in the same school, and two years later was transferred to the George Street school in a similar capacity. In 1895, Mr. Gray became first assistant at Mornington school and in March, 1897. was appointed to the position he now holds in the training college. During his educational career. Mr. Gray attended Otago University, where he obtained the degree of B.A. in 1894, and M.A. two years later. He is a member of the Otago educational institute, and at the time of writing is secretary of the Dunedin branch of that institution. Mr. Gray has engaged enthusiastically in all out-door sports, notably cricket and golf, and is a member of the Dunedin gulf club. Mr. Gray was married in 1895 to a daughter of Mr. Alex. Cameron, of Grant street, Dunedin, and has one son.

Miss EMMA MARY STEVENS, Head Mistress of the Dunedin Normal School, was born in Dugshi, India, and arrived with her parents in Auckland in 1864. Miss Stevens has spent most of her time in Otago, having been educated principally at the middle district, now High street school, where she became a pupil-teacher, gaining a Dl. certificate. For some years afterwards she was assistant at that school, and was subsequently transferred to the position she now holds at the normal school, where she has charge of standard V. Miss Stevens is a member of the Otago educational institute.

Mr. OWEN JAMES HODGE, Assistant