No. 20.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15тп FEBRUARY, 1868. 39
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation * in Hongkong, during the Month ending 31st January, 1868, is published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th February, 1868.
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
$
$
Oriental Bank Corporation,..
570,000
200,000
Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,
384,603
200,000
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,..
327,165
120,000
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,.
1,092,690
500,000
TOTAL,.........
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2,374,458
1,020,000
No. 21.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon on Tuesday, the 25th instant, for the supply of the undermentioned Articles for the use of the Police Department, for Six Months, from the 1st Proximo until 31st August, 1868, viz.:
Oil, per Jar of 24 Catties; Lamp Wick, large and small, per dozen; Waste Paper, per catty; Lamp Chimneys; Baskets, each; Brooms, per dozen; Buckets, Tubs, each; Salt and Soap, per lb.; Gram, Paddy, Bran, Oats and Straw, per pecul; and IIay, per truss.
The above Articles must be of good quality deliverable at the Central Police Barracks, at such time and in such quantities as may be required.
Any further particulars will be given on application at the Office of the Superintendent of Police.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th February, 1868.
No. 22.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
The following Annual Report on the state of the Government Schools in Hongkong for the Year 1867 is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th February, 1868.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
HONGKONG, 22nd January, 1868.
SIR, I have the honour to present to you the Annual Report on the Government Schools in this Colony for the year 1867, and in doing so I shall commence with the Village Schools.
3. I regret that I am not in a position to report much progress in these. Although I am quite satisfied that the children who attend these schools derive certain advantages from the purely Chinese education that they receive in them, it cannot be concealed that education in the Villages remains in a very unsatisfactory state.
3. Whatever improvements may have been made in attendance, regularity, discipline, and attention to duty on the part of the Masters, there is still a sad want of intelligace among the children. To the simplest questions-“What do you call the part of your body with which you see?"- "What is the organ of hearing?"--in the majority of cases no answer can be obtained. When, failing to get the desired answer in this way, one points to the characters for eye and ear and asks the use of these organs, they seem to have no conception of what they meat. Beyond the fact that the character pointed to has a certain sound they are in perfect ignorance of the idea which is attached to it.
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