to the work of the other schools.
8.
The Head Master's Report is appended to the General Report, and will be found to contain some interesting particulars connected with the School. When the new building is ready for occupation, which will probably be the case in about fifteen months hence, this school will enter on an undoubtedly extended sphere of usefulness. It has been to the Government, as well as to the Head Master, "a source of disappointment to see the erection of the new school so long suspended"; but the financial position of the Colony rendered this inevitable. There is not, however, any fear of further delay. The work is in the hands of the contractor, who is bound, under a penalty, to finish it within the prescribed time.
9.
No doubt, I think, that the education of the Colony is on a very satisfactory footing. The Grant-in-Aid Scheme has been of immense advantage.