to the Grant in aid scheme which was
inaugurated in this Colony in 1873.
Mr Stewart's letter to [teller?] fully details the various changes which have been effected in this scheme since it was originally set on foot, [and] need not trouble [you with?] further remarks.
Your Lordship will, however, doubtless like to learn how the Scheme has worked during the four years in which it has been in force, and I have accordingly the honor to forward you a schedule drawn up in a concise and convenient form of the results attained in each year by the different schools in this Colony.
I need only say that under the present effective supervision of E.W. Stewart, the Inspector of Schools, the scheme is increasingly approving itself to the Colony at large, and it has been very satisfactory to me at the close of my Administration to hear the pronounced and so general expressions of approval of the broad principles on which it is based as have been made to me of late.
As showing the light in which the representatives of different sections of thought regard the scheme, I beg to forward a newspaper cutting of a farewell address which the Protestant Missionary body of Hongkong presented to me, and the same sentiments