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the cause of this change lay simply in giv ing the Mission Schools free scope under the Revised Soheme of 1879.
As to the Protestant Schools at work during the year 1873, they exhibited, quite apart from the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, re- newed activity. The Diocesan School with 16 boys and 9 girls continued under the tuition of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur, and cost 24,475. The Colonial Chaplain (Mr. Kidd), following the example of Union Church, started a Sunday School at St. John's Cathedral, attended by 53 boys and 34 girls, and added, moreover, a regular night school for 25 boya taught by himself and his Scripture-reader. At the Berlin Found- ling House, Miss Schroeder had 15 Chinese girls under tuition, and the Basel Mission Girls School under Rev. J. G. Loerober gave instruction to 58 Chinese girls (board- ers) costing $1,088. The London Mission Schools at Wantsai and Taipingshan were attended, the former by 51 and the latter by 36 Chinese boys. St. Stephen's Boys School at Taipingshan (under the Church Mission) was attended by 56 boys. To the foregoing Schools the Female Education Society added, in 1873, three new Chinese Schools, all named after Miss Baxter, and superintended by Miss Oxlad, víz. one in Staunton Street, attended by 30 girls and costing $168, a second in Hollywood Road, attended by 13 girls and costing $180, and a third in Second Street, Saiyingpun, with 19 girls, costing $310.
Among the Roman Catholic Bohools of the year 1878 we reter first to St. Sa- viour's College, This School, now taught by Messrs. J. Terry, J. M. da Silva, Kwok Sin and How Chin (a sensibly reduced staff), was attended by 120 scholars aud oust the Propaganda Society $2,100. Only the Eng- lish Division (taught by Mr. Terry) was placed under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme. The same Society continued also its Spring Gardens School, under Mr. Leung Yow, attended by 30 Chinese boys and costing $54. The Seminary is not mentioned in the
records of this year. At the Italian Con- vent 40 girls were under tuition in the Eng- lish School, 35 girls in the Portuguese School and 49 boys (under 10 years) in the Anglo-Portuguese division. The Chinese School of the Convent is not mentioned in the statistics of the year 1873. At Spring Gardens the Italian Sisters had under their tuition, in their Anglo-Portuguese and Chinese Schools of St. Joseph's Convent in Francis Street,' 8 boys and 10 girls. At the Asile de la St. Eafance there were 9 boys and 81 girls under the instruction of the French Sisters of St. Paul de la Croix.
That the Protestant Schools were now coming up closely in number of attendances to the Catholic Schools, is evident from the foregoing returns which show that (not counting the Cathedral Sunday Sohoul) there were, io 1873, 184 boys and 144 girls at- tending Protestant Schools as compared with 207 boys and 186 girls in Catholic Schools,
As to the Government Schools, Dr. Stewart's report for 1873 counts 1667 boys and 171 girls enrolled in Government Schools at a net cost of $14,477.90 (or $7.88 per head), as compared with 309 bays and 134 girls in Grant-in-Aid Alíssion Schools cost- ing the Government $285.10 (or 59 cents per head). Dr. Stewart reports, as a new experiment, that be started during this year an Anglo-Chinese School at Aberdeen.
1874. Among the Protestant Schools of the year 1874, nearly all of which exhibited a marked increase of attendances, we men- tion first the Diocesan Home and Orphanage School, under the tuition of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur. it was attended by 18 boys and 18 girls (all boarders) and cost $4,900. St. John's Cathedral Sunday School was at- tended by 16 boys and 30 girls (among whoi there were 5 Chinese children). The re- gular night olasses under the direction of the Colonial Chaplain (Mr. Kidd) were ut- tended by 24 boys. The Church Mission's St. Stephen's School at Taipingshan had 88 Chinese boys on its roll, costing $200. The Baxter Schools, under Miss Oxlad, Hourish-
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ed. Staunton Street School, with 43 girls, onst $420. Hollywood Hand Schoo', with 53 girls, cost $240. The Saiyingpun School, attended by 32 girls, cost likewise 8240. The Berlin Foundling House School, under Miss Schroeder, had 36 girla under instruc- tion, and at the Basel Mission School there were 1 boy and 49 girls attending the school supervised by Mr. Luereher, which onst $1032.
The London Mission Schools at Wantsai, with an attendance of 72 boys, and at Taipingshan, with 74 boys, cost $120 each. Not counting the Cathedral Sunday School, the regular Schools under Protestant management were attended by 278 boys and 220 girls, during the year 1874. Seven of the above Schools (3 Buxter Schools, 2 Lon- don Mission Schools, the Church Mission and the Basel Mission Schools) were under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme.
As to the Iloman Catholic Schools of the year 1874, the only School under the Grant- in-Aid Scheme was St. Saviour's College with an average attendance of 75 boys, under the instruction of Messrs. J. W. Terry, J. W. Cullen and W. Kelly. The College was now separated from its former Chinese Division and its Anglo-Chinese Division appears to have been dropped. Thoughts were already entertained by the Propaganda Society of ceding to the Brothers of the Order of St. Joseph the duty and respon- sibilities of giving to the Catholis boya of the Colony an English or Anglo-Chiuese education, The Chinese School in Welling- ton Street, under Mr. Leung Kwok-yin, was attended by 20 boys and cost the Pro- paganda Society $360. In St. Frauais Street (Spring Gardens) the same Society continued also their Chinese School, attended by 15 boys. The Italian Convent reported, for this year, only two Schools in operation, costing $360, viz. a School of 50 boys and another of 80 girls. At the Asile de la Sainte Enfance there were 20 boys and 181 girls under instruction, the coat being re- ported as having amounted (probably for the whole Convent) to $1,950, but the Govern-
ment made this year a grant of $60 a month to this Convent. The total of scholars, re- ported as having been under Roman Catholic instruation during the year 1874, amounted to 411 children (180 bays and 261 girls), or 61 children less than those under Protestant
instruction.
In the secular Government Schools there were under instruction, during this year, 1,931 children (viz. 1,759 boys and 172 girls) of whom 528 attended the Central School-a very great increase. The typhoon of 1874 frustrated Dr. Stewart's hope of seeing soon a new Central School Building erested.
Dr. Stewart also refers, in his report, to the need of the preparation of an Arithmetic book for the Chinese Schools outside the Central School, a need still felt and still unfulfilled. Likewise also the need of a Training School, referred to in the same report, is still an unsupplied desideratum, A Morrison Scholarship, on a provisionally secular basis, was connected with the Cen- tral School by the Trusters (Rev. J. Lamont, Dr. Stewart and Dr. Eitel) after much hesitation, as Mr. Lamont and Dr. Eitel naturally insisted that a Scholarship com- memorating the famous pioneer of Christian Missions in China should not be established But Dr. on an exclusively secular basis. Stewart again proved inegarable and a compromise was effected to avoid litigation. Among the Schools under the Grant-in- Aid Scheme, une undenominational School (Victoria English Boys) is mentioned, taught by Mr. Huulon and attended by 48 hoya. It received a Grant of $84. The total amount of Grants-in-Aid paid by the Go- vernment for the year 1874 amounted to $1,391.50 or $2.20 per scholar enrolled. The net oost of the Government Schools amounted to $14,585.32 or $18,32 per sobolar enrolled at the Central School and $3.59 in the outside Schools.
1875. The Diocesan Home and Orphanage School, under the tuition of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur had, during the year 1873, an in- ereased attendance of 23 boys and 13 girls,
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