under the first Standard (Messrs teate and Moccop),
21 classes with the Students
under the second Standard [ Messrs Gair, Northcote, Ball and Rozario), and 8 classes with Mr Ball for Canton Colloquial.
4.
The following are the subjects treated in these classes. With the Students
under the first Standard I
read and explained a
number
And a
of
Chinese bills
portion of the Same-
12th King. I further explained to them the short-hand forms
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of numerals, Chinese weights and measures, classifiers, tones, long and short vowels, aspirates and non-aspirates, the official ranks of China and of Hongkong and the geography of the
Canton Province. With the Students under the second Standard I read portions of the native colloquial
book called ti-au and
and of the classic "the Great Learning", explaining, as we went on, the principal
rules
of grammar and syntax. I further explained