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Foundling House School, Basel Mission School, and Victoria Home and Orphanage Schools. boys' division, St. Joseph's College took the 1st and 4th, and the Diocesan School the 2nd, 3rd and 5th prizes. St. Joseph's College distinguished itself by presenting, with very good results, 3 candi- dates for examination in the reporting style of short-hand and 2 in type-writing. In the European girls' division, the Victoria English School took the 1st and 2nd and the Italian Convent the 3rd ́and 4th prizes and the Belilios Public School the 5th prize. In the Chinese girls' division, the Belilios Public School gained the 1st prize, the Victoria Home and Orphanage School the 2nd and 4th, and the Basel Mission School the 3rd and 5th prizes.
18. PHYSICAL TRAINING.-In addition to the ordinary exercises in physical drill conducted, as in the preceding year, by a Non-commissioned Officer in 12 local Schools (including 4 Girls Schools), a Cadet Corps, consisting of 64 boys from the five principal Schools of the Colony, was formed, in April, 1893. The corps was inspected and reported upon at the close of the year by Lieutenant- Colonel ROBINSON, Commanding the Shropshire Light Infantry. The report, whilst appreciating the efforts made in this direction and the results so far obtained, indicated the need of a re-organization of the Corps. It may be interesting here to note that this Cadet Corps, a fair type of the racial composition of the non-Chinese community of this Colony, represented the following nationalities, viz. English (27), Portuguese (12), Spanish (9), Brazilian (4), German (2), Persian (2), American (1), Norwegian (1), Swedish (1), Siamese (1), Turkish (1), Anglo-Chinese (1).
19. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.-Arrangements were made during the year 1893 to enable the only Industrial School of the Colony, the so-called West Point Reformatory, a Roman Catholic Asylum, to come, in course of the time, under the provisions of the Reformatory Schools Ordinance (No. 19 of 1886), which had hitherto remained a dead letter.
20. MEDICAL EDUCATION.-The College of Medicine for Chinese conferred its diploma on a third of its students, Kwan King-leunG, one of the Belilios Medical scholars, who had completed a training extending over five years and a half. Though his qualification is not yet recognized by Government, he is certified by a court of independent examiners to be thoroughly qualified to practise medicine, surgery and midwifery. The officers and lecturers of the College, all of whom give their services gratuitously, are steadily carrying forward their philanthropic work and have at the present time over a dozen promising lads pursuing the curriculum. The Hon. E. R. BELILIOS' building scheme has not been acted upon up to the present as his stipulations regarding endowment have not yet been complied with.
21. SCHOLARSHIPS.-Careful attention was bestowed, in 1893, on the question of reforming the Government Scholarship Scheme which, as it was not connected with the local system of education nor with that of the home country, had hitherto benefitted neither the Colony as a whole nor local Schools as such but only individual scholars under private tuition. With one notable exception, the Headmasters whom I consulted objected to any but trivial changes in the old Scheme, though nearly all of them admitted the narrowness of its scope. Desiring, however, to complete the local system of education by adding to the elementary Grant-in-Aid Code a supplementary Scheme for the promotion of secondary education and to link that Scheme directly with the locally established system of Oxford and Cambridge Local Examinations and with an English University, I embodied these aims in a revised set of Government Scholarship Regulations. This new Scheme is now under the consideration of the Government. Meanwhile the two scholars, supported under the old Scheme are continuing their studies in London. The fact that one of them devoted the first year of his Scholar- ship to the preliminary work of preparing in London for the matriculation examination (at a cost of £200), indicates the radical defect of the original Scheme. As to private Scholarships, Victoria College had, in the year 1893, the benefit of 4 Belilios Scholarships, 2 Morrison and 1 Stewart Scholarship. St. Joseph's College had the benefit of one, and the College of Medicine that of 4 Belilios Scholarships.
22. I enclose the usual Tables (I to XVI) containing the educational statistics for the year 1893 which, to some extent, have been summarized in the foregoing paragraphs.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
E. J. EITEL, (Ph. D. Tub.),
Inspector of Schools and Head of the Education Department.
The Honourable G. T. M. OBRIEN, C.M.G.,
Colonial Secretary,
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