5. State how you would fix pumps, and the necessary gear in a shaft 500 feet in depth in order to drain a mine, and give sketch diagrams showing the relative positions of "drawing lift," "setsoff," "cisterns," "plungers," "clacks," "doorpieces," &c.

6. What is the object of "poppet legs"?

Describe the construction of wooden ones fitted with the usual appliances.

7. Mention the kinds of dykes associated with goldbearing reefs, and state their respective modes of

occurrence.

8. What is understood by "beach-combing," and how is it carried out?

9. Describe the mining terms "reef," "stull-piece," "winze," (6 99 cam, "horse of ground," "disc," "grating," "gad,” “pass,' ""rise."

10. Enumerate points to be considered before laying out works on a mineral property, both on the surface and underground.

11. What variation from the dead level would you make in drives, cross-cuts, or tunnels? In what direction should the incline be, and state reasons?

12. What are the usual accidents and diseases to which miners are liable, and what precautions should be taken to avoid them?

NOTE.-Illustrative sketches will enhance the value of replies to questions and explanations.

METALLURGY.

The Board of Examiners in Chemistry.

1. Describe the best means of removing carbon, sulphur, and phosphorus from pig-iron, so as to convert it into malleable iron.

2. How would you analyse a sample of pig-iron ?

3. What are the essential features of the Patio, Von Patera, and Ziervogel processes for the extraction of silver?

4. What are the chief properties and the applications of nickel? Describe the preparation of nickel carbonyl, and show how the metallurgy of nickel may be influenced by its discovery.

5. Mention the more common impurities of commercial copper, and state which are the most injurious. Describe an eletrolytic process for obtaining pure copper from the ordinary metal.

6. What are the chief properties and the uses of antimony? Describe the English process for reducing antimony ores.

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METALLURGY-PRACTICAL.

The Board of Examiners in Chemistry.

1. Examine qualitatively the given samples of ores. 2. Assay the given sample of argentiferous galena.

Give a full written report of your experiments and results.

EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF B.C.E.

HYDRAULIC AND SANITARY ENGINEERING.

PAPER I.

The Board of Examiners.

Design in outline, giving dimensions of pipes, reservoirs, &c., the scheme of Water Supply sketched out on the accompanying plans. The population is 800, and the railways require 20,000 gallons per day. The stream is permanent, and the water of good quality.

Supply estimates of cost of the works, &c., Melbourne prices being adopted.

HYDRAULIC AND SANITARY ENGINEERING.

PAPER II.

The Board of Examiners.

Prepare working drawings of a service tank suitable for the scheme which you have outlined in Paper I., and supply specifications for the work.

HYDRAULIC AND SANITARY ENGINEERING. PAPER III.

The Board of Examiners.

The average winter level of the Murray River at the offtake of a proposed Irrigation Channel is 215 feet. High flood level is 222 feet and summer level 202 feet. The surface level of the ground is 220 feet, and the bottom of the river (supposed level) 195 feet; the slope of the banks is 1 to 1. The ground falls away from the river at the rate of about 1 foot per mile. The soil is black alluvium to a depth of about 4 feet, and red clay below this.

Design inlet works suitable for a pumping supply for an Irrigation Trust of 20,000 acres, and shew on the plans the works (if any) which you would propose for the protection of the Trust area against floods; the country on the other side of the river is level, and in its natural state.

HYDRAULIC AND SANITARY ENGINEERING.

PAPER IV.

The Board of Examiners.

Prepare plans for a system of closets and urinals suitable to replace the existing set in the University grounds. Shew details of the urinal basins, and the provision for trapping and ventilation. The distance from the site to the existing open drain is 5 chains, and the fall is 4 feet. The closets must be designed in accordance with existing conditions, but they must be so arranged that they may be converted into water-closets at small expense when necessary.

EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF M.C.E.

SURVEYING AND LEVELLING.

The Board of Examiners.

1. The following observations are taken in latitude 38° 22′ S. with a Hadley's sextant and artificial horizon.

Double angle of elevation of a' Crucis 71° 12′ 40′′.

Angle subtended between a Crucis and a referring light on the horizon easterly of the star 105° 15'.