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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1873.
No. 13.-CENSUS of HONGKONG for each Year from 1862 to 1872, exclusive of Military and Nucul Departments, Crews of Mercantile Shipping in the Harbor and Police.*
61
Emeritis and Americans,
Alens, chiefly Seamen and Tem-
peary Residents,
Manila, Indian and others a mixed blood,
1,268
100
4 ans -e in the employ of Europeans,
4,897
1. residing in Victoria,
03,380
100 100 150
4,937 6,239 6,836 65,351 07,743 73,803
do. in Villages,
12,297
12,550 | 11,836 | 11,371
D. Boat Population in Vic-
21,336
20,699
20,991
toria Harbor,
1862. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866. 1867. 1868-69.1870-71. 1872. Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons. 1,604 1,644 1,963 2,034 2,113 2,151 2,280 2,736 2,520
1,336 1,488 1,045 1,231 1,150
200
6,658 6,451 65,000 75,743 9,618 9,951 19,153 13,855 |
13,030
997 1,388
635
250
130
57
159
6,739
7,017
7,460
72,050 | 72,984
75.584
11,164
11,164 | 10,507
11,679
14,033 12,309
12,309
13,500
Cheese Boat Population other
tan Victoria Harbor,
10,303
9,838 8,343
2,500
2,500
2,000
7,732 13,099 2,000 2,000
8,293
8,490 | 11,400
6,699
Emgrants,.
200
200
Pret Coolies,
Prsoners,
5,000 626
5,000
695
795
780
718
452
478
479
441
123,511 |124,850 121,493|125,504 115,008,117,471 117,235119,477 118,670.
* Previous to 1870-71, the Police were included.
M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Registrar General,
Registrar General's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st January, 1873.
No. 21.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Annual Report on the State of the Government Schools in Hongkong for the Year 1872, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th February, 1873.
No. 12.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
HONGKONG, 3rd February, 1873.
Sm.-I have the honour to forward to you the Annual Report on the Government Schools in this Colony and the Blue Book Returns for the year 1872.
2. The Tables which are appended give, in a succinct form, nearly all the information which it is Pecessary to supply on the state of the schools. Last year's Report contained a résumé of their history for the ten preceding years, and nothing has happoned since then to necessitate its reconsideration.
3. Five new schools were added in the course of the year, and one was discontinued.
This brings The number of school now under Government supervision up to thirty. Four of the five obtained the usual grant-in-aid, and the fourth, which promises to be a successful one, was added to the Govern- ment Schools properly so called.
4. As regards the number of scholars, the rise for the year was considerable, the increase over the previous year being 188. A more encouraging feature connected with the schools is the increased. gularity in the attendance. This, however, must not be judged of solely by the figures which are given, for the school rolls are not, in all cases, kept so carefully as they should be. This does not arise much from a desire to mis-represent, as from a want of appreciation, on the part of some of the ters, of habits of strict accuracy. Nevertheless, making all due allowance for this fauit, there can to doubt that the regularity with which the children attend the schools is steadily increasing.
5. It is also evident that the people take more real interest in the schools than formerly. They allow themselves to be too much the prey of needy school-masters, to the injury of the school of the peace of the village; but it is very seldom that the obstinacy, which used to be carried so eras to make them decline all education if not given on their own terms, is now long persisted in. The practice which has been strictly adhered to for some years of appointing no master until his com- lence has been tested by examination has tended almost entirely to this result. The annual exami- Lotion of each school, too, supplies a criterion of the master's diligence which can be used against any
empt to oust him, simply because the people would prefer a change.
6. Two of the schools gave rise to much annoyance. At Little Hongkong and Yau-má Ti not *th passed without some complaint, either by the villagers against the master, or by the master ist the villagers. In the case of these schools, one of two things will have to be done. Either grant-in-aid must be withdrawn until harmony is restored, or the schools must be taken entirely ay from local control, and be maintained solely at Government expense. The latter is the se which should be taken with them. In any other way, the children will be neglected, and their being is of too great importance to be subordinated to the caprices of their parents.