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cum omnibus suis carris secuti impedimenta in unum locum contulerunt; 
ipsi confertissima acie rejecto nostro equitata phalange facta sub 
primum nostram aciem successerunt. • o 
Parsing must be fully done. Nominative and genitive of all nouns 
and adjectives must be written out, and parts of verbs given without 
abbreviation. Syntax in every case must be fully given. 
Translate in Latin : — 
On the same day, haying been made acquainted by his scouts that the 
enemies had posted themselves under a mountain eight thousand paces 
from his camp, he sent men to reconnoitre what was the nature of the 
mountain, and what the ascent in its circuit. It was reported back the 
ascent was easy.” 
ENGLISH. 
1. Give the full analysis of the following: — “It is one thing to write 
because there is something which the mind wishes to discharge, and 
another thing to solicit the imagination because ceremony or vanity 
require something to be written.” 
2. State the meaning and, if you can, give the derivation of the follow- 
ing words : — Caligraphy, Lustre, Irrefragable, Prognosis, Electric, Corus- 
cate. 
3. What is a verb, an adverb, a regular verb, and a conjunction ? 
4. What does Tense mean ? Of what does Syntax and Orthography 
treat ? 
5. Give an example of Ambiguity. 
6. Write a short piece of composition, paying great attention to spelling 
and punctuation, on “ The use of the Microscope or “The climate of 
New South Wales.” 
N.B. — Good writing and careful composition tell greatly in the candi- 
date's favour. 
ARITHMETIC. 
1. Find the greatest common measure of 72* and 108*, and give the 
simplest form of the fraction ~ 
2. Find the greatest common measure of 29472, 176832, and 1074. 
3. Calculate the sum of one-half, two-sixths, and three-fourths of a 
shilling. 
4. Divide :834 4s. into two parts, such that the number of crowns in 
the one may be equal to the number of shillings in the other. 
5. A piece of ground whose length exceeds the breadth by 6 yards has 
an area of 91 square yards ; find its dimensions. 
6. Write in figures, sixteen millimetres ; eighty metres three hundred 
and thirty -four millimetres; two hundred metres seven millimetres ; 
seven centimetres ; three decimetres. 
W. T. PINHEY, 
Secretary. 
The following were the candidates, viz : — 
Mr. C. F. Olsen, apprenticed to Mr. E. Arnold, Woollahra. 
Mr. Arthur Simpson, apprenticed to Mr. A. J. Watt, 
Sydney. 
The former passed, and the latter was recommended to 
present himself in siz months for re-examination. 
NEW SO UTH WALES. 
(fbom our own correspondent.) 
Sydney, May 27, 1887. 
THE TECHNICAL BOARD’S PROPOSALS. 
As will be seen from the report of the usual monthly meet- 
ing of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society, the latter 
body has unanimously decided that the proposals made by 
the Board of Technical Education for the establishment of a 
joint Pharmaceutical College cannot be entertained, in- 
deed, it is almost impossible to imagine that the Council 
should have decided otherwise, and it must be admitted that 
had the Board of Technical Education been specially desirous 
pf having their proposals rejected they could not very easily 
have hit upon a set of proposals so likely to effect the pur- 
pose. In seriously placing such extraordinary and altogether 
unprecedented proposals before the Council, the Board un- 
doubtedly laid itself open to receive a very severe rebuke, and 
the opinion is general in well informed quarters that the onus 
of putting forth the propositions in question rests not so 
much with the two representatives of the Board of Technical 
Education as with a subordinate. Certain it is that long 
before the Conference met this gentleman had framed at least 
one set of proposals and placed them in the hands of a mem- 
ber of the Council, but whether with the authority of the 
Board or not I am unable to say. They bore a very strong 
similarity to the proposals which have been so ignominously 
rejected, however, so that it seems reasonable to suppose that 
the gentleman in question had some leading part in framing 
the official proposals. Apropos of the authorship, it should be 
mentioned that a paragraph which lately appeared in one of 
the Sydney morning papers would lead the public to suppose 
that the proposals were the joint work of the representatives 
of the Board of Technical Education and the Council of the 
Society, whereas such is not the ease. Whether the mis- 
statement was accidental or the result of a misapprehension I 
am unable to say, but the history of the matter is briefly as 
follows : — In consequence of a resolution passed at a recent 
meeting of the Council, Mr. Pinhey informs me that he sent a 
full report of the last meeting of the Council to a Sydney 
morning paper. The report was cut down to about one-sixth 
and concluded with the statement that the Council had re- 
jected the proposals of the Board of Technical Education to 
take over the Society. What was probably meant was “to 
take over the Society’s Educational department,” since 
nothing in the report furnished by Mr. Pinhey could lead the 
most imaginative to suppose that the Board of Technical Edu- 
cation had proposed to take over the Society. Such a conclu- 
sion was a mere piece of stupidity. When this appeared one 
of the representatives of the Board of Technical Education 
promptly wrote to the paper to the effect that the Council 
must have misunderstood the proposals made, since the Board 
had never any intention of taking over the Society. This 
gentleman probably wrote without reflection, for a moment’s 
thought would have show him that the objectionable state- 
ment was a mistake, and that it was extremely improbable, to 
say the least, that the Council should have fallen into such a 
ridiculous mistake. Mr. Pinhey called four times at the news- 
paper office to set the matter right, but could obtain no satis- 
faction, being informed that the Secretary of the Board of 
Technical Education was being communicated with as to the 
correctness of the statement in question. The official report 
furnished by the Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society was 
presumably not reliable, as otherwise a reference to it would 
at once have shown the mistake. This, however, is merely 
an instance of the attitude of the newspaper in question 
towards the Society, as I am informed that many causes of 
complaint have arisen during the last two years. Whether 
the paragraph attributing the authorship of the proposals 
jointly to the representatives of the Board and the Society 
was the result of the communication with the Board’s secretary 
I am unable to say, but on behalf of the Society’s representa- 
tives it cannot be too emphatically stated that the proposals 
emanated solely from the Technical Board. As I indicated in 
my last letter, the attitude taken by the Society’s representa- 
tives was simply that of receiving proposals from the other 
side ; they had absolutely none to make, nor were they com- 
missioned to do so. As regards the action of the Council in 
rejecting the Board’s proposals in the way they have done, 
there is a difference of opinion. In rejecting the overtures in 
such an uncompromising manner no doubt the Council have 
shown their real opinion of them, and it would seem as 
though the matter must now be regarded as finally closed. 
There is, however, a feeling in some quarters that possibly the 
Council have been too precipitate, and have allowed their dis- 
gust at these stupid proposals to close the door against more 
reasonable ones. Mr. Melhuish informs me that had he been 
able to be present at the last meeting of the Council when the 
matter was decided he had intended to move that the proposals 
of the Board of Technical Education should be politely de- 
clined, and that the Council should make the Board an offer 
to take over their department of Pharmacy. No doubt such a 
proposal would have met with the support of the whole Coun- 
cil, and it seems a great pity that some such action was not 
taken, since the taking over by the Society of the Board’s de- 
partment of Pharmacy must, in all probability, be merely a 
matter of time. I understand that Mr. Bozon’s first resolution 
{vide report of Council meeting) was framed with a view to 
leave the matter open for further negotiations. Unfortunately 
it met with no support, and the consequence was the passing 
of the resolution, in the face of which it is difficult to see how 
any further negotiations can take place. 
Since writing the above, I have been informed by Mr. 
Pinhey that one of the representatives of the Board of 
Technical Education at the Conference has recently made an 
effort to saddle the proposals on to the representatives of 
the Society. This was indignantly repudiated by Mr. Pinhey, 
as \^as also the assertion made at the same interview that the 
Society had sought the Technical College in this matter. 
Fortunately, the correspondence in the case is available, and 
leaves no doubt whatever as to the Technical Board having 
sought the Society, independently altogether of other over° 
whelming evidence to the same effect. 
The protest entered by Mr. Bozon against the Council 
appointing a second auditor in the room of Mr. Thornton, 
who resigned on being appointed to the Council, brings up 
the ^ whole question of the Laws and Constitution of the 
Society, and the new bye-laws which it is proposed to bring. 
