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school where the European children can obtaiu a sound and practically useful and commercial education. For the Chinese we have an industrial and commercial school. Our Seminary opens to every Chinese who wishes it the gate of all knowledge in teaching him the Latin language. Of the 76 who during its brief existence have passed through the English classes in this College, 70 have got situations and are all doing well, some in Manila some in the Coast Ports and the remainder in Hougkong, A few of them are getting, at twenty years of age, salaries of ovor one hundred dollars a month. Our Anglo-Chinese school has turned out about forty young Chinamen, who are all eruployed well, some at Shanghai, others at Canton and in Hongkong.'
"The work at the Reformatory was rather hard having to deal with young ragamuffius. However in these seven years the industrial schools at that useful Institution have been successful A fow of those boys first admitted are there still now paid assistants, and useful aids to us in our work. We are rather proud of them. Fourtcon are in good situations in Hongkong as carpenters shoemakers and tailors. Of the boys, who are at present in the Refor- matory not less than 30 are working well and satisfactori- ly, 68 others have spent a short time in the Reformatory and have gone away without fully acquiring a trado but we have not heard of any being brought before the Magistrate a second time."
"During the ten years the Italian Convent has been opened nearly one hundred girls of good family have re- ceived a complete education of the best description. Two hundred Chinese destituto children have been saved from death, and trained up to be useful girls and women. Up- wards of 800 girls over ten years of age have been rescued from misery and fed clothed and taught. These girls and infants but for the Sisters must have eventually become a charge upon the Colony. About eighty girls have been respectably married."
His Excellency Major General Whitefield Lieut Go- vernor before distributing the prizes said: "I have with me the strongest sense of gratification at learning the highly satisfactory and most cheering results, which have attended the institution of these Establishments" and after having encouraged the boys to perseverance in their studies His Excellency concluded "it only now remains for me in my own name and I think, I may add
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the name of the Community to thank Father Raimondi and the other Reverend Gentlemen connected with these schools for their untiring zeal and energy in this good work which has produced such happy resulte; and equally deserving of our praise and admiration are those pious and good ladies who have retired from the world for the purpose of devoting their whole lives to the welfare and the benefit of the orphans, the widow the sick and destitute.” H. E. distributed the prizes among which was a golden medal given by himself.
Then
It would be rather difficult to make up an account of all the expenses incurred during this period by the Ro- man Catholics to sustain their schools and Charitable Ins- titutions. Not comprising the costs for enlarging both the Convent and the Reformatory the maintenance only of the Schools and Charitable Establishments were costing not less than $12,000 a year distributed thus:
Italian Convent,.. Reformatory,..
St. Saviour's College,
Other Schools...
.$6,000
$2,400
.$3,000
....$ 600
The Roman Catholies of Hongkong therefore expen- ded from 1866 to 1872 in education $72,000. From the Government the grant made for the year 1870 was to the Reformatory and to the Convent for the charitable works (not for the school) $1,256, so that during this period the R.Catholic Mission received from the Government no more than $2,512, which was not even sufficient to cover the expenses for building which have not been included in the
sum.
FIFTH AND LAST PERIOD,
From 1872 to 1877.
Sir Richard MacDonell thought it convenient to throw open the Central School, which was only for Chinese, to the Europeans and although the Government had chosen the secular system for it, people of different denominations have been invited to send their children there. In 1866 Sir Ri- chard MacDonell expressed his wishes at the denominatio- nal St. Saviour's College and in 1867 at the Central School. In January 30th 1872 in his speech on the occasion of the distribution of prizes at the Central School after having en- logized Mr Stewart as the square man for the place he said:
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