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titan from the work in the local, purers.

It has been the

practice for Corruns of bag how to avail Kemsiives

of the gathering

at the Antial betool to

comment out hogres of Education in the How. I was happy to be able to refer to

the continued increase in the suruber of

the supils attending the school, auch to pay

usual and well deurved coustiments to the

zeal and ability of M. Stewart and the other teachers. but I was pointed out in the

Aresence

تم کو

Mr. Stewart and the curraters

of the Central School come

defects in tant

incitation and in the Government scheme

16 sublic instruction.

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de my Despatch 1.108 of

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I

had already, in referring

to the failure of the Candidates at a public

examination in English and Shiner, excreped to your Fetchin my Reappartment

at finding the Concation of chinese youthe in

Shad

was not as advanced as colected it to be: and in come Dechatches

on

the increase of crime in Houstong

$

alluded to the Carge proportion of children

1/2,000 according to M. Stewart) of age

attend school,

whatever.

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attenting

no schon

In addition to these facts I

felt compelled to deal publicly and in more detail with another and equally serious

the

unsuely the failure of the Government scheme of Education to teach English to