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D. MCNEILL.

H. SCHOENFELDER.

D. CURRIE.

J. J. BELL IRVING.

A. C. MORE.

J. DICKIE.

J. RODGER.

J. CROMBIE. THOS. BLAIR.

THOS. H. REID.

A. W. LAVERTON.

T. PETRIE.

J. M. KINLAY.

J. S. HAGEN.

J. McIVER. WILLIAM DAVIES. W. H. CLEASBY.

W. D. SUTTON. ETH. F. SKERTCHLY.

A. E. SIMPSON.

J. C. KERSHAW. J. ASSUMPÇÃO. H. A. BURKE,

PHILIP W. SERGEANT. HERBERT PRICE.

J. W. POLLOCK. W. BREWER & Co.

A. N. HUKE.

G. RICHARDSON. DUNCAN CLARK.

W. STUART HARRISON.

S. J. GODWIN.

U. J. MAYSON.

T. E. RAYNER.

G. WALLACE Coster.

E. H. GOOD,

Chaplain, H. M. Naval Yard.

W. BANISTER,

Secretary, Church Missionary Society.

F. T. JOHNSON,

Chaplain, St. John's Cathedral.

J. H. FRANCE,

Seamen's Chaplain, Missions to Seamen.

M. STEWART.

A. MACKIE.

H. G. BAKER.

WM. L. FORD.

J. D. HANSON. D. MCDONALD. WM. ROBERTSON. D. D. CUTHBERT. P. MCNAB.

E. H. SHARP, VICTOR H. DEACON. ED. ROBINSON.

JNO. J. FRANCIS. CLEMENT PALMER, F. B. L. BoWLEY. J. SCOTT HARSTON. H. F. R. BRAYNE. F. MAITLAND.

A. TURNER.

Enclosure No. 2.

Notes on the attached Petition of the Residents of Hongkong, praying for the establishment of a School for the Use of the Childern

of European Residents exclusively.

With reference to the question whether such a school should be established by the Government of Hongkong, the following three points must be settled :—

A. Is there any inherent objections to such a school on the ground that, while supported by general taxation, it would be for the benefit of one class only ?

B. If justifiable in principle, is it necessary?

C. If necessary, what kind of school should it be?

A.-As I understand the matter, public funds may be devoted to any object that will add to the strength or wealth of the Colony: such objects are, the erec- tion of batteries and forts, public works, and the equipment of the rising genera- tion with knowledge and character enabling them to subserve the general welfare.

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