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provided. The rooms are fairly successful, but the school furniture and 



the difficulty of storing chairs and tables for reading purposes prevent 

 anything like a complete success. 



The attendances are as follows : — 



1891. 1890. 



Atten- Averapte Atten- Average 



dance. per night. dance. per night. 



Chatsworth Street Board School 29,770 97 30,866 101 



Queen's Road Board School 18,854 62 21,282 70 



Stanley Rojul Board School 32,970 109 30,800 101 



Wellington Eoad School 20,275 87 25,643 84 



Totals 107,869 355 108,591 356 



FEEE LECTURES. 



The Free Lectures are among the more important and encouraging 

 VFOrk of this Institution. The number of lectures delivered during the 

 year have been 54, and the audiences have averaged for each of the 42 

 Winter Lectures 722, and for the 12 delivered in the Autumn 367. 



The lectures are intended to encourage useful reading, but especially to 

 give to artizaus and labourers the opportunity of gaining information in 

 science, history, geography, &c., which want of time or deficiencies of 

 early education prevents them acquiring in a more sure and solid, but 

 less attractive way. The total number of persons who attended the 

 lectures was 34,726. Tbe lectures were as follows : — 



Winter Sekies. 



Bark, John, j.p., m.r.c.s. " Down the Thames ; " illustrated by the 



Oxyhydrogen Light. 

 Beer, Adolph W. "Modern Rural Rides;" illustrated by the 



Oxyhydrogen Light. 

 Beer, John T., f.r.a.s. " The motions of the Moon, with some of their 



terrestrial results ; " illustrated by the Oxyhydrogen Light. 

 BmcHALL, James. *' The Rhine, the great commercial waterway of 



mediaeval Europe ; " illustrated by the Oxyhydrogen Light. 

 BiRCHALL, James. " The Saracens in Europe, and the Power that 



repelled their Advance ; " illustrated by the Oxyhydrogen Light. 

 BuLKELEY, Owen T, " Jamaica ; " illustrated by the Oxyhydrogen 



Light. 



