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to demand our

in training up persons for public

ut, are desirous of having

employment.

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Report as to the extent to which the-

Public Service is likely to derive benefit

it; and we are directed to

from the grant,

visit the Follege

a

report

and to prepare such

In consequence of the absence

of one of sus industy in the north of thine

Ave

have been unable until the present

time to obey your

Excellency's instructions.

to ad

We have now the honor to report

follows.

On the 18th Instant we visited

the College

and met there the Bishop of Victoria, Warden of the College.

and the

Rev? Mest Oliver and Odell, who offord their gratuitous services as Intors.

Tevo Conditions of the grant secaned

.

· particular attention; one,

that the institution shall receive luropean

Students (it's

7 general object being

the

education of Chinese youths); the other,

that the

: governor of Houghing shall have power to nominate six of such students. But although these appeared to be the

points to which it was intended ours

enquiries should be

more

specially directed,

it right to make our examination

thought it right

embrace a wider field; to endeavour to

discover, firstly, whether, in its present by Government, or by

Condition as aided

ded by

any modification of wisting arrangements,

the institution could be made serviceables

for the training Interpreters

ers and

and education as Government

employees of Curopean youth

selected from those already in Phina;

secondly, whether, for purposes of discipline