1118 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST NOVEMBER, 1890.
Cver-crowding in Victoria.-The report-a copy of which had been sent to cach Member-by the Committee appointed to enquire into this subject was laid on the table.
The Acting Registrar General addressed the Board.
The President addressed the Board and suggested that the consideration of the report should be deferred till next meeting and this was agreed to.
Mr. FRANCIS gave notice that at next meeting he would move,-
That the Committee which has so successfully conducted the enquiry into over-crowding be requested to continue
in existence and superintend the carrying out of their own recommendations as regards the suppression of over-crowding.
Dr. Ho KAI suggested that a tracing of the City showing the blocks mentioned in the schedules should be furnished to each Member and this was agreed to.
The Superintendent reported that he had in the forenoon to inspect reported defective drains at houses 1 to 13 Third Street and as they appeared to be in a bad condition he asked for authority to open them for the purpose of making a proper inspection.
Mr. FRANCIS moved,—
That the necessary steps be taken under the provisions of the Health Ordinance to open and inspect the drains of
houses 1 to 13 Third Street,
The Colonial Surgeon seconded. Question-put and agreed to.
Adjournment.-The Board then adjourned till 4.15 P.M. on friday, the 31st October, 1890.
Read and confirmed this 31st day of October, 1890.
HUGH MCCALLUM, Secretary.
S. BROWN, President.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 461.
With reference to the Amended Regulations for Government Scholarships for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, published in the Government Gazette of 15th June, 1889 (Notification No. 272), the following additional details of subjects have been selected by the Inspector of Schools, for the purpose of the next examination to be held in October, 1892:-
History. In addition to general questions on the outlines of English History, special questions
will be set with reference to the period of Queen Victoria.
✔ English Literature. The period from Anne to Victoria, as treated in Chapter XII of Morley's First Sketch of English Literature. General questions will also be set with reference to the History of English Literature (Stopford Brooke's English Literature Primer.) Geography. The following text-books are specially recommended, viz.-Williams' Edition of Hughes' Classbook of Modern Geography for the subjects of general, political and physical geography. British Isles and China, and Trendell's Colonial Year Book (1891) for the subject of British Colonies and Dependencies.
Play of Shakespeare.-Coriolanus (with simple questions on the sources of Shakespeare's play, the legend of Coriolanus and the government of Rome, and on the history of the words and the construction of sentences.)
Latin-Cæsar de bello Gallico, Liber I. Grammatical and other questions will be set on the language and subject matter of the book. One or more easy passages, not contained in the book, will be set for translation into Latin, a vocabulary of the less familiar words being given.
Chemistry. The non-metallic elements, with special reference to Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen,
Carbon and their compounds (Roscoe's Lessons on Elementary Chemistry}.
This examination will be open to candidates, to be approved by the Governor, from one or other of the following Public Schools recognized by the Government (under Notification, No. 370, Sub- section 1. of 10th September, 1887), viz.-Victoria College, the Hongkong Public School, St. Joseph's College, the Diocesan (Home and Orphanage) School, and the Victoria English School.
The List of Entries will be closed on 1st May, 1892.
Forms of application, for the purpose of filing the information required by paragraphs 5 and 6 of the above-mentioned Amended Regulations, may be obtained at the Office of the Inspector of Schools. By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st November, 1890.
W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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