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A difficult matter to get suitable students, and instead of getting the pick of the best boys from Central School, as would have been the case had it been started in connexion with the Central School, Students were picked up where they could be had. Of these, some had already left school and were gaining their livelihood, some were from the third class at the Central School, and one was from the Elementary English school.
Although these young men have studied very hard and made, I believe, great progress, yet considering they were not so advanced as students for a Formal School should have been, I fear (as I have often mentioned to you) that they cannot possibly reach such a standard, with the three years, to be of such value as the Government would expect them to be.
2. Many things have occurred...