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Enclosures.

Registrar Several to Colonial Secretary,

(Copy)

Registrar Seueral's Office, Hongkong. 10th May, 1888.

How : Colonial Secretary

With

reference to the extract from the Sonnetary of State's Respatch;_

N:49 of the 28th March, 1888, relative to

the practices of keeping Hongkong Cadet in

a

year,

England for. forwarded to me

which has been

observations, I

for iny

I that in

have the honour to report

opinion the practice should not be discontinued. So far

my

his study of

Chineze is concerned, though there can

be

no doubt that a Cadet would make

considerably greater progreve language if

in the

resident in China, still

by a year's study at home he ought to be able to acquire moh knowledge

of