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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 Naval Departments, Crews of Mercantile Shipping in the Harbor and Police.*
Eisspears and Americans,
1862. 1863. 1864. 1805. 1866. 1867. 1868-69.1870-71. 1872. Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons.
1,644 1,963 2,034 2,113 2,151 2,289 2,736
1,604
Cararse Boat Population other
#sruuts,
St Coolies,
Alens, chiefly Seamen and Tem-
pary Residents,
ask-e in the employ of Europeans,
1. resiling in Victoria,. 15. do. in Villages,.
D. Boat Population in Vic-]
toria Harbor,
thun Victoria Harbor,
En grants,.
Pasobers,
o, Manila, Indian and others
of mixed blood,
2,520
1,268
1,336 1,488 1,645 1,231 1,150 997
1,388
635
100
100
100
150
4,897 63,380
4,987
6,239
6,836
65,351 07,743
73,803
12,997 | 12,550 | 11,830 21,330 | 20,099 | 20,991 20,991
11,371
200
6,658 6,451 65,606 75,743 9,618 9,951 19,153 13,855 13,030
250
130
57
159
6,739 7,617
7,460
72,950 72,984
75.584
11,164 10,507 14,033 12,309
11,672
13,500
10,303
9,838
8,343
2,500
2,500
2,000
7,732 | 13,099 2,000 2,000
8,293
8,190. 11,400 6,699
200 5,000 626
200 5,000
695
795
780
718
452
478
479
441
123,511 124,850 121,493 125,504 115,098 117,471 117,235 119,477 118,670.
* 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 Goverment 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 happened 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 unler Government supervision up to thirty. Four of the five obtained Pe usual grant-in-aid, and the fourth, which promises to be a successful one, was added to the Govern- ment Schools properly so called.
1. 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 ven, 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 tters, of habits of strict accuracy. Nevertheless, making all due allowance for this fauit, there can
no doubt that the regularity with which the children attend the schools is steadily increasing.
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3. 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 as 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- ence has been tested by examination has tended almost entirely to this result. The annual exami- Potion of each school, too, supplies a criterion of the master's diligence which can be used against any attempt 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 outh passed without some complaint, either by the villagers against the master, or by the inaster inst 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 g from local control, and be maintained solely at Government expense. The latter is the
which should be taken with them. In any other way, the children will be neglected, and their wing is of too great importance to be subordinated to the caprices of their parents.