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: ¿ held, as above mentioned, the competition lay between two or three scholars in each case only. Of a total of 34 candidates examined from 1884 to 1890, five were presented by the now defunct Central school, three by the Diocesan school, and two by Victoria College. The competition was therefore hitherto between three schools only, each of which succeeded in gaining a Scholarship. At the next competition, scholars from four local schools (Victoria College, St Joseph's College, Diocesan school and Government Central High School) will enter the lists.
Of the ten candidates hitherto examined, six were British subjects, and four were aliens; and as regards extraction, three were Eurasians, two German, three English, and two Chinese. Of the three successful candidates, the first, a Eurasian originally domiciled in Hongkong but residing in the Cape Colony; the second is born, bred and domiciled in England; and the third, a Eurasian now in England, is domiciled in one of the Coast ports, China. Of the five candidates offered for the next examination, only two (an Indian and a Portuguese) are born and domiciled in Hongkong, the other three are British subjects.
That these Scholarships have applied some educational stimulus to the work of your local schools is probable. Exceptionally talented as some of those boys are, few of them could ever think of going in for the competition with any chance of success, the standard of which has been very high. These Scholarships, the value...