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attendances were as

Stivertheless the Schoo steadily, though slowly, continued to prosper. The

follows:- 1th March 1890, 25 scholars, 14 September 1890, 39 scholars, it March 1891, 62 scholars, 1% september 1891, 63 scholars, at the present

day,

80 scholars. This tolerably steady increase clearly indicates that the

School now

which is

3

supplies

a demand

Present Condition of the

slowly arising.

Girl's Central School. The Girls

Central Schoo's,

with

an

English

·eadmistress and her Chinese teacher,

a Churriese Assistant Mistress and a

an

Pupil Teacher, gives orderiary English middle class education in the :English language, with the addition of optional instruction in the classi. cal Chinese language. Sedlework forms part of

the teaching of school. A fee of half

the

a dollar a

month

625

mouth is charged for each scholar. Among the so scholars now

instruction 12 are

English, 2 Spanish,

46 Eurasian, 19 Chinese and 1 Jewish. The school is conducted in a hired building which is situated in the centre of the town, but ill-suited

and affording

for the

perrpose and

uisufficient accommodation. The

the whole school amounts at

cost

of

present to $2855 per annum (after

deduching school. fees.).

Future prospect of the

4.

Girls Central School. It may be - confidently expected that the atten. dance of the new Girl's Central School will contine to increase as before The Eurasian population is indeed amall, but the Chinese population-

very large and annually

ing. Among

nose over

uncreas.

the Chinese there is.

a ste

steadily increasing -