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祂者及屬釋道二教者而孟子書内有激動人心視異邦人爲仇警之 將該删除禁止不讀越之而讀下如是激動小子之心以爲在大 書院乃禁止耶穌道理者惟在大書院所用教華文之書内多旨及祭 句在大書院亦未嘗禁此致教師講解時發透該章旨節旨之意而亦

印小子挨次而讀間或讀至一節是引用聖經者或指耶穌教者卽

八百六十五元五毫八仙即去比前歲支 大書院一年之費用觀下所附之格式第四 大書院外又有義學讀之亦無 百四十五元八七仙去支銀一萬一千 歎開列則可知其詳矣按前支銀九千九 多言惟石牌阏一館該掌教才 非練達性復疎慵不盡厥職致

民此

支千

告假鄉旋受其俸金一半特用第二位教師 不肯因惜小費而使子弟從遊 歲患眼疾國家恩准予假六個月給足修 之俸金六百三十大元又因第三位教師去 明二年間其數相去如是之遠則因監督 民間書館或赤柱或省城肄業 多銀一千九百一十九元七一仙若欲解 此鄉人宇願資使其子弟在 不守本分之師故該義學中战

俸去師

增入合著一書書成日初學階梯付 已印刷矣而是書在大 未嘗有過因他自亦以此爲是也爲此不平之事數年前國家特立委 員將天地格致淺易之道卽華人書籍所未有者及耶穌教淺易之道

書院華人教師一向之不用以教學童

故需另請教師以補其缺支俸金九百大元 解館矣義學教英文者向只此 位在義學教習英文矣 英俊三人入院練習掌教之法現今曾有二 又已開多教英文之義學三間 其餘另有特用之項因去歲秋冬之間會請 間雖已中解館而照上所言 黄坭涌灣仔西營盤三義學

郎

the moment a chapter is reached containing any

Bible story or where the concluding sentence of the chapter supplies a moral with the slightest

reference to anything specifically Christian, that chapter or that concluding paragraph is at once tn- hooed and the next following chapter taken, is nost unfortunate, as it impresses the boys, in the tmngest possible manner, with the notion that

Christianity itself is discountenanced in the Central

School. On the other hand, Chinese reading

oks used in the Central School are replete with rguments and exhortations in favour of ances-

worship, contain a good deal of Buddhist

nd Tauist teaching, are even, as in the case of dencias, calculated to foster a decidedly anti-

oreign spirit, yet these passages are not skipped.

in the contrary, the Chinese masters told me that

hey, in oral explanation, endeavour to bring

one this kind of teaching to the hearts and

inds of their pupils. Nor can the masters be

lamed for doing so, as they conscientiously

dieve in such doctrines themselves. To counter- ct the manifest unfairness of this state of things, here were some years ago Chinese school-books repared by a Governinent School-book Com- ittee, supplying the rudiments of secular know-

dge, of which these Chinese class books above entioned are devoid, and giving also the ele- ents of Christian religious teaching. But these overnment school-books are not taught 1: the hinese masters in the Central School.

The cost of the Central School will be found etailed in Table IV. It will be seen from that ble that the total of expenditure for the Cen- al School was $11,865.58, as against $9,945.87 1877, showing an increase of $1,919.71. In planation of this apparent excess I have to ate that on account of the Head Master's ab- nce on leave, on half salary, an extra vote was cessary for half of the salary of the present cting Second Master ($630), and that the Act- Third Master, being incapacitater for duty

rough an affection of the eyes, was on furlough

1 full salary for 6 months, during which time

s place was filled by special assistance obtained

a cost of $900. There were some further tra expenses incurred in connection with the aining school for three young men attached to e staff of the Central School during the second

if of the year, two of whom are now employed teachers of English in outside schools.

8. The Government schools outside the Cen- al School do not give much occasion for remark. e Aberdeen school had to be closed in the

iddle of the year owing to the incompetency d neglect of the master, in consequence of which e villagers preferred to send their children to e three other schools in the village, or to Stanley, to Canton to school and to pay there for their uration rather than having them gratuitously der the charge of a master who did not attend his duties properly. But although thus the ily outside school in which in former years nglish had been taught was closed, there were, ith English teaching, viz. :- Wong-nai-ch'ung, Iremarked above, three other schools provided