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THE HONGKONG Government gazETTE/12TH FEBRUARY, 1876.
NUMBER of UNEDUCATED CHILDREN in the Colony in 1875.
TABLE XII.
Number of Children in the Colony under Sixteen Years of Age, as per last Census,...... 20,664 Deduct, as being under Six Years of Age, su Y ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . Deduct, as attending Schools of all denominations, say,
7,504
3,800
11,364
Total Number of Uneducated Children,..........
9.300
APPENDIX II.
CENTRAL SCHOOL EXAMINATION PAPERS FOR 1875.
FIRST CLASS.
1. 11- 13-7.
2. § (-9) + 3 (r−5)
3. Find the G. C. MI. of 6.-
I. ALGEBRA.
(Time: 4 hours.)
-7) + 18.
+- and 12-15x + 3.
(60 marks.)
4. I bought a certain number of gallons of wine for £94. I used 7 gallons, and sold of the remainder for £20. How many gallons did I buy ?
5. One day I employed 4 men and 8 boys and paid them 40/. Another day, I had 7 men and 6 boys, and gave them 50/. What were the daily wages of each ?
6. A, B and C divided a sum of money among themselves in this way: the shares of A and B amounted to $900; the shares of A and C to $800, and those of B and C to $700. What was the share of each?
II.
ARITHMETIC. (Time: 4 hours.)
(60 marks.)
1. I transfer £1,000 stock from the 4 per cents at 90 to the 3 per cents at 72. What is the decrease in my income? 2. The cost price of a book is 6/87., the expense of sale 5 per cent upon the cost price, and the profit 25 per cent upon the whole outlay. Find the selling price.
3. A, B and C rent a field for £11.6.: A puts in 70 cattle for 6 months, B 40 for 9 months, and C 50 for 7 months. What ought C to pay ?
4. A cube contains 56 solid feet, 568 solid inches: find its edge.
5. The height of a tower on a river's bank is 50 feet; the length of a line from its top to the opposite bank 65 feet. What is the breadth of the river?
6. What degree Centigrade corresponds to 86° F.; and what degree Fahrenheit corresponds to 40° C.?
III. CHEMISTRY,
(Time: 4 hours.)
(80 marks.)
I. CALCIUM:-
(a) Describe the manufacture of Lime.
(b) Give some account of Mortars and Cements.
(c) Give the causes of the hardness of water, and state how it may be removed.
II. ALUMINIUM :----
(a) Where does it occur naturally, and how is it propared?
(b) Show how Alum is prepared from Shale,
(c) Give the properties of clay, and some account of its principal varieties.
III. MAGNESIUM :—
(a) What are its properties?
(2) Where does Sulphate of Magnesium occur naturally? What are its properties and uses?
(c) How is Magnesia Alba prepared? Show the result in symbols.
IV. ZINC:
(a) What are its chief ores, and how are they reduced ?
(b) What are its chief uses?
(e) What are the properties and uses of Oxide of Zine?
V. CADMIUM:—
(6) How is it obtained?
(b) What are its properties?
(e) To what practical purposes have the metal and its compounds been applied?
VI. IRON-
(a) What are the principal ores of iron?
(b) Describe the Blast Furnace.
(e) Distinguish Cast Tron, Malleable Iron and Steel, and give some account of how they are manufactured.
IV. COMPOSITION,
(100 marks.)
(Time: 4 hours.)
The Great Earthquake of Lisbon.
V. DICTATION.
(50 marks.)
"One of the most interesting phenomena connected with earthquakes is the great sea-wave which rolls in upon the land with such destructive effects. This wave is observed only when the origin of the shock is at the bottom of the sea. When the shock has its origin on laud, and the earth-wave approaches the sea, it first causes the water to retreat for a short way, and then to return with considerable force, but seldom beyond the point at which it had previously stood. The first retreat in this case is caused by the rising of the beach with the swell of the earth-wave; and its immediate subsidence, while the edge of the water is in its turn elevated, causes the return-wave, which then flows back upon the shore."
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