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specially successful tutor in the subjects of secondary education. Both these Masters exercised a very strong personal influence on their scholars who will ever treasure their memory with gratitude.
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16. LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.-The results of the annual Oxford Local Examinations, held in Hongkong in July 1894, were as under:-I. Junior Division.-Honours List, none. Pass List. Diocesan School, 6 passes; Victoria English School, 1 pass. Candidates, who, having exceeded the age of 16 years satisfied the Examiners,-Queen's College, 5 passes. Successful candidates who obtained distinction, none. Details of examination results of Junior Division:-presented 27; examined 23; passed in preliminary subjects, 20; passed in religious knowledge, fully 5, partly 4 passed in English, fully 20, partly 2; passed in mathematics, 7; passed in drawing, 2. Total of certificates issued to candidates of proper age, 7; to candidates beyond the limit of age, 5. II. Senior Division. Honours List, none. Pass List, Queen's College, 3 passes. Successful candidates who, having exceeded the limit of age (19 years), satisfied the examiners, Queen's College, none. Success- ful candidates who obtained distinction, none. Details of examination results, of Senior Division:- presented, 13; examined, 10; passed in preliminary subjects, 9; passed in religious knowledge, fully 2, partly 2; passed in English, fully 8, partly 1; passed in mathematics, 3; passed in drawing, 1. Total of certificates issued to candidates of proper age, 3. The foregoing results may be summarized thus-Queen's College 8 passes (of which 5 were obtained by excess of age); Diocesan School, 6 passes; Victoria English School, 1 pass.
17. BELILIOS MEDAL AND PRIZE EXAMINATIONS.-At the annual competitive examinations for Belilios Medals and Prizes (for the year 1894), 30 picked scholars from the principal Schools of the Colony entered the lists viz. :-11 European or Chinese boys, 5 European girls and 14 Chinese girls. The Schools represented in this competition were St. Joseph's College, the Diocesan School, the Victoria English School, the Victoria Home and Orphanage School, the Basel Mission and the Berlin Foundling House School. In the boys' division, St. Joseph's College took the 1st and 4th and the Diocesan School the 2nd, 3rd and 5th prizes. In the English girls' division, the Victoria English School took the 1st and 2nd prizes. In the Chinese girls' division, the 1st and 3rd prizes fell to the Victoria Home and Orphanage, and the 2nd, 4th and 5th prizes to the Basel Mission School.
18. PHYSICAL TRAINING.-An inspection parade of the Cadet Corps was held on 8th January, 1894, and, in result, the Military Authorities, discouraged by the excessive preponderance of alien elements in the Corps, resolved to abstain from giving the local Cadet Corps the status and control which similar Corps are granted in England, and advised that the Corps should be trained in sections at the several Schools. This has accordingly been done. The Military Authorities granted the services of a private, instead of a non-commissioned officer, for the physical drill which has been continued, in 1894, in eleven local Schools.
19. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.-A grant of $2,500 having been made in 1894 to the Roman Catholic Reformatory, to cover the cost of the surrounding wall and to provide enlarged accommoda- tion, the late Bishop RAIMONDI placed this Industrial School under the Reformatory School Ordinance as a School certified by the Government for the reception of juvenile offenders. A regular Kinder- garten, for the benefit of the children of the poor Chinese residing at Saiyingpun, established by the Rev. G. REUSCH of the Basel Mission (in February, 1894), now gives gratuitous instruction to young Chinese children in the rudiments of industrial work by systematic training of hand and eye.
20. MEDICAL EDUCATION.-At the close of the year four more of the students of the College of Medicine for Chinese completed their curricula, with a minimum period of study of five years. The names of the new graduates are WONG I-YIK, who is certified to have passed his professional examina- tions with high distinction, Ü I-KAI, LAU SZE-FUK, and WONG SAI-YAN. The College has its head- quarters in the Alice Memorial Hospital, with which and the Nethersole Hospital, it is affiliated for practical purposes, but it is ruled by an independent Court, and the Examiners are professional men who have no other connection with it. The officers and lecturers, all of whom give their services. gratuitously, have at the present time ten students under professional training.
21. SCHOLARSHIPS.-The draft of the revised Governinent Scholarship Scheme referred to in my last report is still under the consideration of Her Majesty's Government. As to non-official Scholar- ships, Queen's College had, in the year 1894, the benefit of 4 Belilios Scholarships, 2 Morrison and 1 Stewart Scholarship. The management of the Morrison Scholarship Fund is in an illegal condition and requires rectification. St. Joseph's College had the benefit of one and the College of Medicine that of 5 Belilios Scholarships coupled with some special grants.
22. I enclose the usual Tables (I to XIII) somewhat reduced in number owing to the with- drawal of Queen's College from the supervision of this Department, it having been placed in 1894 under a separate Board of Governors.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
E. J. EITEL, Ph. D. (Tubing.), Inspector of Schools and Head of the Education Department.
The Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.