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ANGLO-GRINBIR SCHOOLA.
14. The Anglo-Chinese Schools, catablish- Sayingpun, Wantsai, and in the villages at Yaumati, Wongnaichung and Stanley re- coived, in the year 1888, an addition to their number in the shape of an Anglo Chinese School which was opened, at the
of
15. Those lovernment Schools (includ- or whois educational system, and in the any unpleasant effects.
quiet power which it exercises in the direc
Hokin
Shai-pana
Ban Tilin. Shai-tal Po.
Shanz-shai Po. Shad-li Wan. Shok Shek Tong. Shek-long Tau Bheung Wan. Shini King Wan Ho-kog Po Tai-kək Tani,
Tak-long Ho
Tai-ping Mi
Tai-lung Kung
Tai-ping Bhan
Tai-kiek Kol Tai-tamu.
Take
Tat-tam Tai-Fan
[No. 8186 -- MARCH 30, 1889. As to the more which at (present" afflicts those two Grants also an alteration has been made in bowels with a dose of these pills, and Anglo Chinese and Chinese classes of the Schools. All these Anglo-Chinese Bohuola the Rules but not yet included in the good honlth will follow. of the Roverssinant, by establishing at the cheap, non-sectarian, English or Anglo-language, with Chinese classical teaching to 1888 to its ordinary work. beginning of the your 1888 another Girl's Chinese education. If it is the desire of be added optionslly (without extra fee).
shown as satisfactory resalta ad can be of the Government Central School and these desirable affects only muor details and not make you feel worse before you are Bchool intended to give Chinese girls at the Government to promote in the Colony [Bore follow tables showing the work done Central Bohol the examinations baso compete annually for the free-scholarships Scheme. But all the revision that appeare Unlike many kinds of pills, they do
expected under the circumstances, and competitions,continue to prove, to the pa- leaves untouched the leading features exclusively Chinoso clucation. The Bali- generally a knowledge of the English at the Government Central School 1. lios Medal and Prize Fund, which, in the language and to put a European or at least
especially in view of the little time that can tisfaction of the Headmaster, the thorough our Grant-in-Aid Scheme, which year by better. They are, without doubt, the year oder review, has been modi&ado as an Angle-Chinese education within the THE GOVERNMENT GENTRAL SCHOOL-
13. That the results of the year's work be spared in an English School for Chinese noes and soundness of the English toaching 1 year continues to demonstrate its effective best family physio ever discovered.
given in these Salools.
ness by the increasing soundness and qui-They remove all obstructions to the. formity which is gradually parvading natural functions in either sex without to encourage and promote "sluastion in ronah of all, we ought not to confine the
PROGRRAS IN THE CHINESE BHOOLS. Boys' Schools as well as in Girls Schools, offorts of the Government to giving to boys done in the Government Central School, is studies. continues to stimulate private efforts in the only an English or Augh-Chinese edaca-highly satiat etury, will be seen at a glance direction of female-education. Neverthelem tion, but offer the same advantagea, on the over the foregoing Tables. The papers still in a very backward condition in the the mothers of future generationa. What bigbeat credit on the School, especially in ad by the Guvernment many yests ago ating the Aided Schools in the Villages), the Bon of counteracting whatever drawbacks | NAMES OF VILLAGES &o.,
'IN OE NEAR HONGTONG. it is a pateat fact that female eluention is same conditions, to the girla who will be done by the boys of Class I, 4, reflect the
* (Corrected Spelling.) § Colony, and there can be no rosaunable has hindered efforts in this direction, the subjects of History, Composition.
teaching of which was formerly confined to attend the local working of the Cam- doubt but thats vast rasjority of the 8,402 hitherto, was chielly the fear that the Grammar and Dictation. Class Fix did a
giving purly Chinese education, have bridge Local Examination system, the children in Hongkong who remain uneduo- system of concubinage, the great beno of remarkably neat and praiseworthy week in
displayed, in the year 1888, spraiseworthy healthful stimulus of which continues to
18. As regards the other classes of Grant A-kung Ngam cated (sea Table XVI) aro girls. Of tho the social life of this Colony, would only Grminar, Geography, May-drawing; Latin
affort in adding to the study of the produce good results. 1,033 children enrolled in Government bo fostered by providing Chinese girls with and, English Ecalling. So alse Class V
Confucian Classics also the teaching of Schouls during the year 1888, there were an English or Anglo Chinoas education. distinguished itself particularly in Reading request of the villagers, in Shaukiwao. árithinetic as well as Geography. Only a in-Aid Schools, viz, those which give s 1,84 boys and 199 girls, that is to say the But it seems to me that the duty of the and in Translating from Chinese into Eug- This latest School, however, has not re- few schools, however, ventured to teach European ednéation, the results of the An- Cheung-ahan Hom.
bles apponded to this Report, and there Chung Wari. to provide the means of lish and Class VIII, B, showed excellent ontved propar support from the villagers, the European numerals (which most of the nual Examinations am detailed in the Ta Chung Kom
Aro but a fac general observations to be Fopang Ha-vall girls cumbered only 67porce. Jf the Government whole number of caldres in Government education, where private effort is absent, results in Reading and Dictation. But who are hard to please and who desire teachers have yet to lenta themselves) and
(Aberdeen). Sokoots. In the Grant-in-Aid Sehnols the should not be considered to apply to the Class III, vasattle weak in Euclid separate teacher to ha appointed for Eng. to ako the children work out sums, in
been small and But Mental Arithmetic, which all these which prevailed throughout the year, aftot. Heung kung Tani proportion of girls to boys has been better moral classes of society only and leave Composition, Geography and Class I, C, bish and for Chinese teaching. The atten writing, accuding to European methods added The unusual amount of sickness,
shortcomings in doncs at this School
Hoz šui the isooral oues without a higher displayed Gran To from the beginning land is gradually im- proving. In these Schools there were, in class of education for fear that they Gramoor, Gougraphy, Euclid, Algebra and very irregular and consequently the results Schools now teach with a will, has called ed thess Schools also, by diminishing re- minalious. Nerortheless the Boys Schoole the year 1988, among a total of 4.85 chil- might become still more imoral. As Lath. The Sahool naa whole, however, have been far from satisfactory, perhaps forth the strongest approbation of the gularity of attendance and consequently the
tatter of fact ouneubinage has all along does not only maintain firmly its loading widhout any fault on the part of the villagers and is now well established in quality of the results obtained at the ara Hok-toui Wan dren, 2,538 boys and 1.787 girls. In other words, in Grant-in-Aid Schools the girls fourthed in floogkung und will no doubt position among the Educational Instituteacher. At Yaumati alao Anglo-Chiness popalar favour, though formerly spokon numborod 41.31 per cent of the whole of continue to urish, whether Chinese girls tions of the Colony, but is developing its teaching ounties, year by year, to drag agamist as & foreign innovation. What did, on the whole, try good work, aird Hok-an Kok. children enrolled, so that for aug 6 boye in receive an English or Chinoac aduention educational resources steadily from year to a sluggish existanco, there being among there Schools most needed was the introduc several Sileolsspecially distinguished them Hung-houng I. thoss Sabools there were also 4 girls under or no education at all i the education year, by adding new subjects to its pro- the villagers still very little appreciation of tion of a system of examination which re-selves this year by the uniformly excellent Hung-hom.
gram. The abject of Latin which in the an English education. The Yaumati School quires the teacher to bring forward och results obtained in both ordinary, and spe. Kai-lung Wan
boy, year after year, into a higher standard.cial subjects. But the Girls Schoola appear Kasz Wa instruction. A census of Chinese Private to ha given to the girls boro referred Matoken by the Registrar Cepurst, has any moral offent at all, aneh effect will proceding your had been introduced in 3 has, however, a better future in prosperto So long as the education givou in these to be losing groand. Only one Girlf School Kat-ling during the year 1828, by means of the not be likely to ourourage any inoral assos was, during the year 1888, eye for the boatmen and fishermen who hitherto
It is temationlly taught in classes. The constitnted the residents of Yaumati, Are Schools was confined to the Chinese Classice (Victoria English School) attempted special Kau-pui Shok. District Watchmen, shewed that thore wody of lita but rather the contrary. Ware, nung 1.74 childres in 83 Chinese vain to export the Chinese residents to put cabatitution of Trigonometry for Mensura gradually becoming outnumbered by town in the case of which class-teaching is inap- subjects (Algebra and Paysical Geography) Kung Chung,
forth any effort in the director of promotion, which is one of the new features of peuple and arizans irem Hongkong who plicable, the progress of individual beys in the year 1888, whilst the Boye Schools Kung Kok. Private Schools, 1,679 boys and 25 girls, the
ing English or Anglo-Chinese femala educa-the year 1882, comminude itself. So also are attracted to Yaumati by the lower rents could only be measured by the number are steadily progremming in this matter, both Lap-sap Wan, girls numbering only 1 46 per cent of the children in attendance.
So far na Roman tion. The leading Chiuers when I con- the introduction of the study of an entire charged there for house acomodation. of books committed to memory, and by us regarde the thoroughness of the teaching Laali Mun, Catholic girls are concerned, be they of sulted, with the exception of a few who replay of Shakespeare, in Class I, and I, B. If this change in the character of the popu-composition exercises in the ease of the gives and the shape of freeh variations Ma-tau Chung. native or foreign extraction, ample powi ceived their education in the Straits Settle is calculated to produce beneficial results, lation of Yaumati continues, we shall soon very few boya who stay in school for the fudiciously introduced, in which respect the Matau Kok ments, are decidedly isical to anything not merely because the methodical reading meet with a rapidly growing appreciation aunber of years required for that. But Grammatical Analysis and Book-keeping Me tau Tauri.- of the sort, because they are the supporters of a play of Shakespeare is an excellent for and greater regularity of attendance at now, sinen Geography tesching and Arith-exercises of St. Joseph's College and the Mat Wai
means of curing that dring sing-song the Anglo-Chasse School. The other netic have been introduced, which subjecte Animal Physiology papers of the Dioceast of a system of polygamy which demands for
KEEDLE WORK: its safety the greatest possible sociusion style of reading to which Chinese boys are Anglo-Chinese Schools, those at Stanlay admit of class teaching, a rule has been School stood out net prominently as me of females and which is endangered by the specially addicted, but especially ale baad Wongmaichung, and especially the two made that every boy in the Government ritorious examples.
18.The Needlework Examination pro- promotion of a system of English Public cause the unistitution of a painstaking Schools of Wantrai and Sayingpun are po Schools who has entered his third school- School seineation opacially designed to study of an entira play, for the superficial sitively over-crowded, and months before your is required to pass, at the Annual well as reading of drajccta membra poet, in cal- a new school-year opens, the teachers of Examinatione, in the following subjects,
viz. Schoolbuok Committed's First Reader daced satisfactory resulta in the year 1888. Whilst the needle work of the Italian Con- invite the attendance of Chinese
cannct be not so small and not go budget in with Eurasian or European girls. Under these culated to develope a taste for the mastor- the latter two Schools are pea'orod with a \(in addition to memoriter repeating of Chi
use Classics), Writing from Dictation 20 vent School stood hitherto unrivalled in characters from First Reader, Mental nestness and artistic beauty of its work, pieces of English Literature. But in in-plications for admission which creasing thus the work of the higher classes entertained for want of accommodation. of the Central School thore is need to watch The Anglo-Chinesa Schools of Saying Arithmetic (Addition and Subtracting), there are now several other Schools which the tendency of snch increase of School and Wantsai absolutly require enlarging Geography (the eighteen Provinces). The are coming pretty near the standard of the Content School, even with respect to Chi- impair the bodily health of the if they are at all to come np to the urgent work
nose domestie ceedle-work. There is how- scholars. Such watchfulness will be special demand, which has sprang up in these loca- subjects of the fourth school year are now, ly called for in the case of Olass II, B,lities for Anglo-Chinese teaching. It is Repeating Cinese Classics, Antithetica now Victoria College may relieve the presters from the same book, Mental Arith-
Reader, Writing from Dictation 30 charac-which the needis-work that is being done in some Girls Schools has, viz, the danger which had four extra pensuus (History, possible, however, that the opening of the Sentences. Schoolbook Committee's Second over ons danger, in the commercial value Composition, Euclid and Algebra )udded in
metic (Addition, Subtraction and Multi of giving too much time to neodia-work, plication), and Geography (the Chinese such as pays the School directly, at the Empiro.) The subjects of the fifth school-expense of the less remunerative training- yoar (unless the boys are, as usual in mossof the mind which benefits the scholar. cuses, ramoved then to an Anglo-Chinese Thero is indeed no necessity for Girls School) are Repeating Chinese Classics, Schools to take up any Special Subjects Resding and Explaining Schoolbook Com-such as Algebra, Astronomy, etc., but neither is there is there any good reason. nitton's Third Reader. Chinese Essay Writ- why girls should fail to master Vulgar and ing, Writing from Dictation 4 charactera from the same bouk, Arithmetic (up to Divi. eion), and Geography (the two hemispheres), This arrangement has now brought the teaching of the Government Schools into eouferouity with the educational systera of the rest of the Colony, and the Aided Schools in the Villagos ate also having the same sysion applied to them step by step.
sion has been made, under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, for a modica of female educa- tion. As regards Fitoetaal Baropene girls, there are two small Private School which might be enlarged or added to, with or without the help of the Grant in Aid Schomo, if the demand for temale eluea tion by this section of the comacuity era religinus and social caste prejudices. A regards Chinese girls whose parenra da net aim higher than giving their taughters a purely Chinese, that is non English, educa tion, the Grant-in-Aid Scheme is doing, or capable of doing if avaded of all that is needful. But there is tallely a provi- sion made by private efforts nor by fiovarn- ment for offering Chinese or other girls a
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circumstances, seeing a prospect of private effort coming forward in this direction. I am of opinion that is is desirable that the Go verment should establish a firis' School, the dangitors of all olsanos, whather Chinese or Indian or Eurosion or European, and giving, on condition of the payment of a small monthly fee, an el tentary English education in the English
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THE GRANT-IN-AID REBODIS.
16. The Grant-in-Aid Schools in Class I havo Buffered, during the year 1883, far more than any other Class of Schools, from small-por and fever, and also from the ex- cosively high house rents and the cou Boquent movement of the population. Though the total of children enrolled in all Schools has increased, individual Schools in the contro of the town have had their numbers masterially reduced, while Schools
Decimal Fractions, and I would rather see less time giveu to embroidery and similar fancy needle-work and a little more atten- tien paid to the ordinary subjects of the Grant-in-Aid Scheme.
20. I enclose the usual Tables (Ito XVI.), containing the Educational Stati- etics for the year 1888
I have the honour to te, Sir, Your most obedient Servant,
The
E. J. HITIL, M. A, PH. D.,
Inspector of Schools Honourably Stewart, LL.D., Colonial Secretary.
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or who have paid fall face, re- pose, and with greater accuracy, too, in the proportions of the various ingrembarking at San Poco for Obius dients employed.
Japau (or vice versa) within one your will be
I subjoin a cooperative Tatle, sahibiting arely small. To-day they are produced of proceeding overland by the Southern the results of the working of the Revised with infinitely greater rapidity by ma-Pacific and connecting Lines, Central Paci Grant-in-Aid Scheme of 1883, so fantas Schools in Class I are concerned, for whoan that revision was specially intended.
Here follows Table shewing the Effects of Revision of Scheme (1883) on Schools in
No form of medication can be better allowed a discount of 10%. This allocates Clasa 1.
17. It is evidout from the foregoing that a pill, provided only it is iu- does not apply through fares from China Tables that one aim of the Revision
telligently prepared.
But right here and Japan to Kurope her of the Scheme has been partially scared, ecurs the dificulty Easy as it may
viz,
to oncourage the
ards.
teachers
of
Freight wit be rusted an
these purely Chinese Schools to bring for seem to make a pill, or a million of the day previous to miling. Pärtel 6 p.m. Baice day all Parool Packagus ward more children into the higher Stand.hem, there are really very few pillsackages will be received at the offioe nailal This has been attained, as far as that can be honestly commended for should be marked to address in Tair', Standard VI is concerned, and partially popolar use, Most of them either tux of same is required,
Conmlar Invoices to accompany. Cargo also in the case of Standard V, in both of dersboot or overshoot the mark. As which Standards the number of children everybody takes pills of some kind, it destined to points bepul Sar Traboises brought under examination has pretty
teadily increased from your to year. But any be well to mention what a good, in the United States, should be sent to the after all, to bring only 45 out of 1,699 sate, and reliable pill should be. Now, Company's Offices Scaled Envelopes,
Francisco. children, or ob out of 1,833 children into lien one feels dull and sleepy, and has addressed to the Collector of Customa at Jazı For further information as to Fidizge these highest Standards, is not much to ra more or less pain in the head, sides, joice over. The movement in advance, in and back, he may be sure his bowels and Freight, apply to the agency of the ihis respect, is principally due to the Girla Schools, boys being us a rule drafted, outre quastipated, and his liver sluggish Company, No. 6, Queen's Road Ventrai, into Anglo Chinese or English Schools after To remedy this unhappy state of things passing Standand III. It is further satisfac there is nothing like a good cathartic tors to observe that the number of children pill. It will act like a charie by ati- brought forward in Standard. I has steadily mulating the liver into doing its duty, increased from pear to your, but the cambor and fiddling the digestive organs of the of children placed in Btandard 11 (without
previously passing through Standard ) is accumulatet poisonous matter,
But the good pill does not gripe and abnormally large, more especially in cum- parison with the excessively low numbers pain us, neither does it make us sick examined under Standard IL The cause and miserable for a few hours or a of this objectionable tendency on the part of whole day. It kete on the entire glan- teachers, crowding as many children as pos dular system at the same time, else the sible into Standard IE to the neglect after-effects of the pill will be worse of Standards I and III, is that the thin the disease itself. The griping Scheme allows, in the case of Standard 11,
O.D. HARMAN, Agerat Hongkong, March 13, 1850.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
NOTICE
477
STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ, FORT SAID, BRINDIS, GETOA, ANTWERP, DREMEN & HAMBURG, PORTS IN THE LEVANT. BLACK SEA & BALTIC PORTS
copy writing to make up for failure in caused by west pills is the result of one of the other aubjects. Many teachers irritating drugs which they ennuin. have accordingly taken advantage of this Such pills are hermfal, and should never moans of passing children with asse be used. They sometimes even produce through the examination in Standard II, hemorrhoids Without having any ang kabitually crowd as many children as particular desire to preise, one pLONDON, NEW YORK, BOSTON, possible into this Standard, putting therabore another, we may, nevertheless, BALTIMORK NEW ORLEANS, through the Reading and Memoriter Re-
PORTA GALVESTON & SOUTH AMERICAN
pesting drill of ons, anall book which it name Mother Seigel's fills, manufas would be difficult to fail ju, and giving the cured by the well-known house of A. I. children a great deal of mechanical copy. White Limited, 35, Farringdon Road, writing to do which entails little effort London, and now sold by all chemist on the part of the Loscher, whilst Weiting and medicine vendors, as the only one from Dictation is almost entirely neglected we know of that actually possesses But this means the teacher awaits
THE COMPANY'S STLANERS WILL, CALE" 17 SOUTHAMPTON 20 LAND PABRAUNTY AND LUGGIOR
of tuinma for he prisonal places in NB-Cargo can be taken on through Billa
RUSSIA
SUNDAY the lith day of April,
the amount of his bosas at the end every desirable quality they rumore of the year, at the expense of the the pressure upon the brain, carreer the rest educational interests of the children, liver, and cause the bowels to act with which remain neglected. This defect in ease and regolarity. They navor grips the Echeme can be obviated by abolish for produce the slightest sickness of the ing the compensating power of Copy stomach, or any other unpleasant feeling. writing (or rather mechanical tracing) in sympton. Neither do they induca Steamship PREUSION Caph. the case of thees Chinese Schools. There farther constipation, as nearly all other and CARGO, will lare (lūs parī as above, ars other considerations which point in the
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direction of the advisability of Pavizing the pills do. As a further and crowning calling at Gissos, gal Code. The general tendency which kas at merit, Mother Seigel's Pills are covered
Shipping Onder will, be grated sill
in, during the last few years, to sin at a with a tasteless and harnlese coaling, Noon, Carge, it be moved on board higher standard of education in all the dif winch causes them to resemble pearls, until 4pm. Specie and Enzona til pan. ferent Classes of Grant-in-Aid School thus rendering them as pleasant to the on the 15th Apr 158 (Farma
not to be sent on board – they must both Chinese and English, needs and fully palate as they are effective in curing left at the Acexor's Off) Contents, desarves support on the part of the Guvert disease. If you have a severe cold and Value of Packages nom ment. There is a general dasice, for in- ,,18825% prea.starce, to include in the pensum of the Chi are threatened with a fever, with pains The Steamer **
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Amount of Loan,"
Par Value of Bonds.
Hongkong Shanghai Chinesa Imperial Govt Silver Loan 1884 BBanking Corporation Chinese Imperial Govt Silver Loan 1884 0
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Do,
Quotations, $1,394,700.14 H'kung Currency. 8500 B'kong Currency. 8% per annum 30 June each year until 1890% pre $1,091,700.14 Hong Currenny, 8300 H'kong Currency 8 Kaping Ths. 700,000, Equivalent of
Rate of Intereste
When Puyable,
Closing
10 Oct.
Shanghai Tle. 767,200. Allotted at
Chinese Imperial Guvi. 7 por Cent.
Silver Loan 1886 E
exchange of Tla 72 par 8100|
H'kong satrenoy. Drawn Bonds Shangh
Tuels 250.
and Interest payable at current vate of the day for demand bills on Shaoghal.
Depreciation and Insurance Fund.
STOKES & YOUNG, Share Brokers,
Equalisation of Dividend Fund.
to been purely Chinese Schools, the teach doses will break up the sold and prevent Log of Anthmatic as a Special Subject the fever. A conted tongue, with a 31st March and 30th Sept.) ach year andil 31 Mah. 14% prem, Thero in sien desire, on the part of brackists teste in the mouth is cansed
1917
Manager and Teachers of English Bohol by foul maiter in the stomach. A s to have certain useful subjects included
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suration, Trigonometry French and Draw cure. Often times partially decayed among the Special Subjects, sooh as Men of Reigel's Pills will effect a speedy ng, etc., for which the prescat Boheme food in the stomach and bowels pro- makes no allowance, An regarda Building duses sickness, nausea, dec. Cleanse the
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