Regulations should be drafted defining the powers and the duties of this body and the position of the headmaster under it; and issued. They are finally the draft should be sent for my approval.
3 9 am indebted to Bishop Burdon and to Dr. Chalmers for their memorandum on the Queen's College.
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Long Pong 10 110 Governor Mr. Mr. Xu 26 4799 Hong Kong for sig 318 SIR W.ROBINSON,K.C.M.G. &c. &c. &c. MINUTE.
Loop. 18. July Mr. Fairfield. Mr. Wingfield. Mr. Bramston. Mr. Meade. Mr. Burton. 19 X Marquess of Ripon. 17 Noted Two drafts.
Sir,
Downing Street, 2 July, 1894.
As suggested in your despatch No. 26 of the 12th of February last, I have taken advantage of the presence in England of Mr A.J.May, second master of the Queen's College, to acquaint myself more clearly with the conditions under which the work of that institution is being carried on.
2. I understand that, in addition to Chinese, the College teaches the simplest elements of an English education and at the same time carries that education further than any other undenominational school in the Colony, and at least as far as any denominational school.
3. As far as English teaching is concerned, there are, I am informed, three divisions.