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the memory work, especially in the lower -classes, left little to be desired. would suggest that, especially in forms 3 and 4, particular attention be given to meaning of the words used in the Cate- the chism, and that in forms 1 and 2 the boys be taught to pronounce the words more slowly and carefully. The average of marks obtained by the boys is high, one boy having gained more than 99 per cent., and the general condition of the school with respect to scriptural knowledge is highly satisfactory."
The Bishop then distributed the prizes, etc., the following being the recipients:-
HONOUES LIST, 1900-OXFORD UNIVERSITY LOCAL EXAMINATION. SENIOR.-R. T. Strangman JUNIOR.-F. Drude, H. Moore, W. Moyhing, Fan Kau, Fan Kam, Cheung U Kwong,
Preliminary.-C. W. Olson, J. G. Howard, Ng Tin Po, H. H. Strangeman, E. Ablong, E. Hagen.
PRIZE WINNERS-FORM PRIZES
Form VII.—(1) F. Drude, (2) W. Moyhing. Form VI.- (1) Pun I ‹ ho, (2) E. A blong. Form V.-(1) H. J. Ahee, (2) T. Younges, Form IV.-(1) Fung U Sham, (2) U Wai Tak. Form III (1) Tam Hok Kwei, (2) L. Le Breton,
Chak Yuen.
Form I-(1) Ko Pak Yeng, (2) R. J. Has. tings (3) C. A. Bourn.
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Form VII.-(1) F. Drude. Form VI-(1) Ng Tin Po.
Form V.-(1) P. Hastings; (2) W. Blumen berg.
Form IV.-(1) Chan Hem Sh'ow; (2) Ho Wing Shan.
Form III.-(1) E. Law, (2) L. Le Breton. Form II. (1) J. Crolis, W. Mackie,
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Siemsen:
Form I-(1) S. Smith, E. Alvarez, Robertson.
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for a still more prosperous year's work than the
[February 2, 1901.
past.
attendance. hearty cheers were givon to the Bishop for his On the invitation of the Rev. R F. COBBOLD,
nounced that the school would be closed from The BISHOP expressed his thanks and an. that day until the first of March.
THE LATE QUEEN EMPRESS.
SERMON AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL. On unday morning last at St. John's Cathe- dral the Rov. R. F. Cobbold preached, taking as his text the words in St. John's second Epistle Majesty Queen Victoria. Mr. Cobbold said :-
The elect Lady," and spoke of her late
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND that the netting was forthcoming on the mea | surements being given him. (Hear, hear.) He expected Mr. Piercy forgot the matter in the ono other remark he wanted to make, and that ¦ hurry of preparing for home. There was only was in regard to the school itself. there year after year he could not help being As he came very thankful for the excellent work which provided an excellent education based on Chris- was being done there, that being a school which tian principles. It was most important in this colony that educational work should not ba wholly without religion. They would all realise of course that since last they mot thore they had A little sister born the Diocesin Girls' Schools, which was con- ducted on much the same principles as that school. He was sure they would all wish God's blossing on the little sister, and hope that she might soon hava as good a building as that and
I am sure, my Christian brothers and sisters, that the number attending the new school topic to-day. Possibly silence would most that you look for no sermon on any general would be as great. By the way, the boys rightly testify to our inability adequately to had really pirated that school, which was built and founded for girls. (Applause.) | our hearts at this time.
express the profound thoughts which pos oss all The boys had simply pushed the girls out speak here; and I could not stand and speak in Yet it is my part to and occupied the place themselves. plause.) He did not think they ought to of the Gospel of Christ without reference to the (Ap- this place even of the riches of the good tidings chee for that; he thought they ought to sad tidings which have boon flushed to the be ashamed. (Applause). There was just one Form II.-(1) Wong Hon Sing, (2) Lamother point in regard to the school which he have stirred all hearts to acknowledge the remolest cornor of the civilised world, and wished to mention. As he came there year tremendous fact that "The Queen is dead." after year he was very thankful for what he On Saturday next we shall have an opportu but there was one thing he did not like to nity of humbly and reverently performing see, and he thought they should get it altered. That was the mixing of races in the school-
an official and public act of mourning. To-day, while we have tried in our service not to lose that was to say, the Europeaus and Chinese. He the character of the Christian Sunday, yet we to either rare. thought he could say this without giving offence have been careful that no variable part of the Of course he was an English-service should be inappropriate to the great than half his life in teaching Chinese boys. meet that I should say a few words in tribute man, but as they knew he had really spent more topic of present and world-wide thought, it is Therefore he did not speak in this minuer
to the memory of one whom, for herself and through lack of sympathy with the Chineso. for her conspicuous goodness, as well as for the He loved the Chinese from the very bottom of august and lofty position which she held, we all tainly it was borne out by his own experience his heart, and they had seen that day-and cer- 'loved in truth," as faithful children love the that the Chinese boys were as capable of study-
mother who has borne them and nurtured them. ing as the European boys, and could compete
There are, of course, many words in Holy with them successfully.
Scripture which would supply a suitable text Cortainly a large number of the prizes that day had fallen to
for a sermon. They crowd upon one's mind Chinese. Therefore when he spoke as ho was
as one thinks of the mystery of death and the doing to do he did it without the slightest idea
blessed hope of immortality, of a nation's darkost hour of bereavement and the rich of disparaging either one race or the other. possibilities of its inheritance, of the depth of He did not believe it was a good thing to put the two races side by side in the school.
human sorrow and the largest of Almigh-t He did not think they mixed. There was
God's consolation in Christ. Throe words, howy ever, stand at the head of Saint John's second a gulf between the Chinamaa as a China Epistle which may fitly form a title to our man and an Englishman as an English thoughts to-day.hey are man, and he did not think it was a good Who she was to whom the evangelist addressed The Elect Lady." thing for English boys to be educat d side by his brief letter, we do not know, but apparently side with Chinese boys, and he folt that it was she was oué revered and greatly boloved, a wo not a good thing for chinese boys to be edu- cated side by side with English boys.
man blessed and well known, a mother of sound thought they wanted to train up the Chinaman these rospects she resembles our great Queen- Ho faith and of strong influence for good. In to be a Chinaman and not half a Chinamau and Empress. Unto the Eleet Lady, and her child- half an Englishman. He liked to see a Chinaman
ren, whom I love in truth" an educated máu, but a Chinaman, and he would
So Saint John like to see the Chinese educated separately. He
writes: so our hearts preserve the reverend must say he considered it a great blot on this dren,
memory of our "Elect Lady," and her chil- colony-and a very serions blot on this colony though her tired body sleeps at Windsor, whom го love in truth. What -that it provided no school where European and her weary brain rests from its labours children could go without this mixture. | did not know how the practico had grown
He and her heart throbs no more with the pulse up.
of mortality; to us sho is the same "Elect At Shanghai there was an school for Europeaus.
excellent Indy": our affection cannot die, our regard At the same time cannot diminish, the splendour of her memory work amongst the Chinese wont on in Shang-cvnuot fade: though her work is over, and her hai he considered quite as successfully as work amongst the English. He only wished they in truth. The love of the British people for warfare past, we can still say "whom we love could see it here. As he said, he did not know how it had como about, but to his mind it was a
their Sovereign is a national characteristic. very serious blow to a cology like Hongkong real personal affection, called forth, in spite of It is no mere figment of official respect, but a that it did not offer a s hool for its own people.
the necessary seclusion and ceremony of the Hongkong fairly, and to govern our colo- beloved, and by the Crown's undoubted sym- a good thing to govern Court, by the real goodness in the object nies with all dus consideration for the poo-pathy with the needs of the whole nation, Our beloved Queen was, ay, is, the Elect Lady. Elect by the will of the King of Sovereigns and “only Ruler of Princes": elect among English women as the type of pure goodness, of womanliness and of unaffected devotion: elect among mothers to 'bear the white flower of a blameless life': elect of God in the Faith of Christ: elect in the hearts of her people to receive their homage, love, and
SPECIAL.
Good conduct-H. J. Abee. VII. Mathematics-Fan Kam. VI. Mathematics-Pun I Chi.
VI. Physical Geography - Ng Ting Po.
· V. Mathematics-T. Yeungeo
V. Physical Geography A. Mackenzie. IV. Algebra-V. Wai Tah.
IV. Physical Geography-L. Lewis. Music-P Hastings. Drilling-Fan Kau. Drawing-Ngai Cheung.
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The BISHOP having distributed the prizes ad- dressed a few words to those assembled. After referring to the absence of His Excellency the Governor, who has put off all his public en- gagements on account of the lamented death of the Queen, he said they all missed Mr. and Mrs. Piercy, but he hoped they were having a good holiday at home and that they would have them back again with them in good health and strength, ready to resume the good work they had carried on at that school before. In the meantime he was sure they might be most thankful that they had got Mr. Sykes and his colleagues with them to carry on the education. al work. He was sure from what they had seen that day that they would be perfectly at rest in their minds about the prosperity of the school during Mr. Piercy's absence. There were one or two things mentioned in the re- port which he might call attention to. One was the great improvement in the play-ground, which he was sure Was & very important thing. The thing which people suffered from in Hongkong was want of room to exercise and amuse themselves in, and he was sure they were all agreed that if the school-boys were to do good work they must have good play-grounds.ple who formed practically the bulk of the Through the removal of buildings and other population, but it did not seem to bo a good alterations the space for play had been almost thing to govern a colony to the neglect of the doubled, and it was a very good thing that this education of the children of their own race; had been done. While mentioning that he and whilst the claims of the Chinese to a school might mention a short-coming of his own or of their own where they could get a good rather of Mr. Piercy's. When the altera- | education ought not to bo neglected, at the tions to the play-ground were going on same time it should be one of the first duties he (the Bishop) promised to give the netting to of an English Government in an English keep the balls into the court on the measure-colony to provide an education for the obedience: elect in life, and now elect, through ments being supplied to him. However, as he had not been provided with the measuremen he had not been able to provide the nettin But the promise held good, and he would s
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and daughters of its own people.death, chosen of God to approach His Glorious In conclusion the Bishop expressed the hope, Majesty in humble submission to do His will in that the boys would have an enjoyable holiday, heaven as she did it, and would have it done, on and that they would come back to school ready earth.