CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4] — Page 352

II Examination before the Board.

Mc May (now second Master/ distinctly the best colloquial

من

Master this Justibution has had.

(excepting perhaps Mr Bull); but he had acquired the chief knowle

knowledge the four he resided in the Colony before he joined the service!

of the language during

years

Mesers

Dealy

Jones and

Jameson are the first Masters I have known who began the study

-apponitment, and have not

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only carried it steadily

have

Me

bust

made respectable progress.

has

passed his final. examination (suth), Mr. Jones

Dealy

his fifth / being exempted further examination on account of fail. ing eyesight) and Mr. Jameson his fourth. I think that the Board will support

me on the statement that Messrs Dealy

and Jameson (i.

348

e. two out of three masters) give evidence of ability to become by

contrived

study pair Chinese scholars; and I doubt that either

of

them would spontaneously have undertaken the study. Why should

the Government despair of conti-

nuing to find masters able to

decent progress in the Curiese? Why

make some decent

study of

should it.

run the risk of the predicament hereafter arising of there bein

ane

being

only

European Master able to take the translation lesson, and he peradventure sick, or absent on leave? Does the idleness or incapacity

of

or two masters justify the

abandonment of the scheme?

"

2. Surv

"

Smothering of Churiese.

It is not surprising

the modicum

of

that

Churiese acquired

by English Masters in the course of three or four

four years

ars should appear