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I had, however, to make an exception in the case of Mr Ball, owing to his studying the Hakka Dialect in addition to the Cantonese dialect. The students under the first Standard I requested to meet me on the first and fifteenth days of each month, from 6:30 to 8 A.M., and the students under the second Standard on the tenth and twenty-fifth day of every month, also from 6:30 to 8 A.M., whilst I left it to Mr Ball to come to me twice a month as convenient to both of us.
The majority of the students attended these classes with tolerable regularity. Messrs Gair, Northcote, Ball, Neate, and St. Leger scarcely ever failed to attend. Messrs Travers, Mossop, and Parker attended very irregularly, and Mr Breagh and Sergeant MacManus came only a few times. The other students ceased to attend.
In the course of the year I held altogether 449 classes, viz: - 20 classes with one or both of the Students