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exente English, and that members of my

Council were disappointed at this result

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they believed that the main object of the Government scheme of Edrecation should

We the teaching of English to Chinese boys.

2.

Your Lordship will we

the enclosed minute.

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from

Mr Stewart

the Suspector of Schools, hated 29th

Sanuary 1878, that the other Government

Schools in Houghous

are

even loose

If

in this respect than the Central School.

3.

The first part of the enclosed

document is an application make by Mr Stewark

a

grant for

Twelve

Government or Village Schools in excep

of

the sum voted in the Estimates.

On this

one

of

are

copies of some minutes in

which I recorded the fact that I

had already cauctioned the extra

payments in accordance with M. Stewart's recommendation, subject to

the approval of the Legislative Council.

• I added however that

4.

on

visiting some of those Government Schools, I had found that the School

Masters could not speak a word of

English and that as

ascertain none of

for

as

I could

the pupils had

any

Knowledge of English, and I called on list of

Mr. Stewart to make out a

the Schoolmasters, - marking those who can teach English.