gree

he had yet heard, he could not a to the request of the Reputation. It seened - to him that those who were notsatisfied with the Government provision

+ provision and,

- wanted something specially adapted to their own wants, should themselver pay for it, and wokall on the Government

to do so.

The Colonial Secretary, on being appealed to by the Governor, stated that many Europear boys had bem edpeated with Chinese boys in the Butral School, Colony occupying

who.

were now in the

Paw-lo

useful positions; that he difficulty in their being taught together; and that if the Public School :suddenly to collapse, the whole of the

how a

boyo

good

au

atlouding

it

Cove

Education in the Central

School as they Public School.

This wa

ld receive as

doing in the

are now d.

was a

turn in the conversation

for which I confere I was not quite

prepared

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prepared, nor do I think the other. member of the Deputation expecting it. The School has been in existenne vo completely succeeded,

long.

and has

diving the last two yeare expecially, in gaining the confidence of the Public, that to be told by so high an Authority as the prccent Colonial Seonetary that

was no raison d'être for the Public School in Hongkong

there

moment er

of further conversation,

Ula o

the

for the

Corrie

Dome

- en barrasing . In the

conversation, however, were said by the Deputation in reply, which His Exultering

things

ttav

kine

enough, at the dose of the interview, to ackurubego

arre

QI

5 having hard

Got and

- weight with him; and in order that

care might have the fullest. fouincet consideration he advised that written statercient embodying the particular point

a

our views on

raised should be sent him which he would be glad to foreword, -

with

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