II Examination before the Board.
Mc May (now second Master/ distinctly the best colloquial
من
Master this Justibution has had.
(excepting perhaps Mr Bull); but he had acquired the chief knowle
knowledge the four he resided in the Colony before he joined the service!
of the language during
years
Mesers
Dealy
Jones and
Jameson are the first Masters I have known who began the study
-apponitment, and have not
021
only carried it steadily
have
Me
bust
made respectable progress.
has
passed his final. examination (suth), Mr. Jones
Dealy
his fifth / being exempted further examination on account of fail. ing eyesight) and Mr. Jameson his fourth. I think that the Board will support
me on the statement that Messrs Dealy
and Jameson (i.
348
e. two out of three masters) give evidence of ability to become by
contrived
study pair Chinese scholars; and I doubt that either
of
them would spontaneously have undertaken the study. Why should
the Government despair of conti-
nuing to find masters able to
decent progress in the Curiese? Why
make some decent
study of
should it.
run the risk of the predicament hereafter arising of there bein
ane
being
only
European Master able to take the translation lesson, and he peradventure sick, or absent on leave? Does the idleness or incapacity
of
or two masters justify the
abandonment of the scheme?
"
2. Surv
"
Smothering of Churiese.
It is not surprising
the modicum
of
that
Churiese acquired
by English Masters in the course of three or four
four years
ars should appear