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of
the Committee which do not permit them to leave the town frequently. - Two school houses have been commenced by the Surveyor General,
one at Victoria
on a site adjoining the European part of the town, get overlooking and adjacent to the chinese part, the other at the village of Hong news choong. Great improvement will doubtless result from the rrection of these buildings, and we trust that His Excellency will see fit to sauction during the coming year, the rrection of kimilar bulding at the three other villages Überdeen, Stanley and Houghtong, in lies of the apartments how used as schoobrooms, which are confined, mearably dirty, and altogether unsintable._ 8. On 4th instant un rexamination of the
schollars was held at St Paul's College and prizes were distributed in accordance with the suggestion Made in our letter
of 19th September lost an ipproved by Excellency- after the exammation seven of the most promising tcholars were selected by the Lord Bishop of Victoria and transferred with their entire satisfaction to the College
better course of instructions..
t
receive a
Four of these were from the Wong nei chrung
school.
year by
9. h request was made during the
the residents at West point that a school mights be established in their neighborhood;
A
similar request was made by the pesidento
of torkampor, and at the outlying village of sheats where the population is agricultural and stationary, a school might be set on foot with great benefit to the villagers, who are for the most part tow poor to obtain this advantage
without 10. We think that the study of the English language should in this, an English Colony, be incouraged as much as possible, not
assistance.
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