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ANNUAL PRIZE DISTRIBUTION,

AT QUEEN'S COLLEGF.

THE GOVERNOR ON MATHEMATICS,

The large hell of Queen's College was crowded at noon, to-day, on the occasion of the annual prize distribution, H. E. the Governor (Sir Matthew Nathan, K.E, K.C'M.G.) being present and handing the prizes to the successful scholars. Amongst those present were the Hon. Mr. F. H. May, C.M.G., and Mrs. May, Consul-General Romanu, Hon. Dr. and Mrs. Atkinson, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G. Mrs.

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Under standing orders from the Governing I have been entered in the last 23 years. At the nected with lines and areas are those dealt with B dy I held the annual examination. Oral last prize distribution held in the Central by plane geometry and Enclid, as the subject ex munation, 1,915 boys in reading and conver | School (now Queen's College)'in January 1888, | is often formed in our schools from the ancient sation, and 170 baya of class VII in grammar Sir William Des Veax spoke to the following Alexandrian who ingeniously, and logically lasted 24 days from Monday, 28th November, effect: 'The chief point I consider admirable | to Saturday, 17th December. Paper-work about this school is its missionary purpose and occuped 18 days Dec. 23, 27-30, Jan. 4-7, 9-14' work. The young men that complete their course of studies here are scattered over the 16-18: The results are as follows:

vast empire of China and cummot fail to dis Swo973 loya examined 197 or 862% pasi vil.

seminate those Western ideas that they have Preparatory 196

Required in this school and that appreciation | Tutat for the Coll ge tous

These figures compare very favourably with of British government impressed upon them those of 1903, but, with the exception of class by their residence in this British colony. His 11. A, which is deserving of special mention, Excellency rightly grasped the situation, but Gershom Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, the general tone of work throughout the col. I venture to doubt that its full magnitude could Rev, T. W.. Pearce, Mr. James, Miss W. lege was lower than in the previous year. The have been realised by him. Say 9,000 boys Bateman, Miss Holmes, Vis. Hunter, Mrs, total marks obtained by the head-boys of have left this college and one third are scat Wallace, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Craig, Miss Shel-classes were lower, and marks 39-49 fair were tered on the mainland: then we have a small bourne, Mr. and Mrs. Bradwood, Mr. and Miss far too common. These facts, coupled with the army of 3,000 unpaid inissionaries spreading Seth, Rev. J. W. Southam, Mr. Ho Kom Tong, depression referred to abeve in Oxford local Western ideas! Mr. E. A. Hewett, Mr. S. W. Tso, Mr. T. Piercy, results, corroborate the estimate formed in tha Mr. Irving, Mr. R. A. B. Pousonby (Private course of the year by my staff and myself that Secretary to the Governor), Mr. J. Dyer Ball, 1904, as compared with 1902-1903, was a year Dr. Thompson, Rev. C. H. Hickling, Mr. J. J. of 'lean kine. Leiria, Mr. and Mrs. Mooney.

HEAD MASTER'S REPORT.

Dr. G. II. Bateson Wright, D. D. (Oxon), Head Master, read the following report, which was addressed to the llon. Mr. F. H. May, Colonial Secretary:- have the honour to sub mit the annual report on Queen's College for the year 1954. The total number on the roll was 1,501, the average daily attendance being 1,030: both figures are in excess of those reach ed in 1903 and form a record. Our attendances, which in England would be the object of con- gratulation and envy, were seriously affected by the phenomenal number of cases of beri- beri. The slight diminution in tees, $313, is due to the unprecedented exolas, in the first half of the year, of 166 boys Train the upper school, wisich in March consisted of 407 boys. The vacant accommodation was as far as pos-

sible atilised for the preparatory school where the fees are lower. It is much to be regretted that parents and guardians do not recognise that it is a penny-wise-and-pound-foolish policy to curtail the boy's education just when it is ripening in order to earn so much the carlier a few dollars a month. Parents have often sub sequently deplored the fatal mistake they have thus made.

Reading, dictation, composition, history and Shakespeare were the subjec's in which boys most fully repaid the labours of their masters. Both the translatious froin and into Chinese, now confined to the upper school, were well done, there being considerable improvement in the attempt to render the unseen pieces given in both subjects to all three classes. Mathematics were very weak, algebra being the best subject, Euclid and mensuration the worst. Book-keeping in class I proved a fiasco, serious blunders vitiating 70 per cent. of the papers.

Conversation.One of the instructions to II.M. Inspectors of Schools in England is to test the extent of which English boys understand the subject matter, which they have read. I have always pursued his excel. lent course, and find this year that boys in the

lower and preparatory schools have a very slight acquaintance with the meaning of sent ences real by themselves but a few seconds before. Conversation, though creditable, is on the whole considerably below the standard at tained in 1903, the weakness being specially noticeable in classes II B, ill B. C. and IV B, English masters being responsible for this sub- ject in the three first named classes, it is mäni

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obvious than the uses of arithmetic and men-

put together a number of those problems. The combination of arithmetic and gebmetry is the science of monsuration an entirely practical science for obtaining in arithmetical terms areas of plane figures and contents, weights and values of solide. It is by mensuration that the merchant and the customs officer ascertain the contents of a cask, the surveyor the area of a field, and the engineer the weight of any part of his structure. The practical uses of algebra in which figures, lines, areas and contents are represented by alphabetical symbols, are, ex- copt for furnishing methods for multiplication of higher branches of mathematics, a little less suration, and the science is more open to Dr. Bateson Wright, having finished reading the danger of its processes being carried out without a full knowledge of their the Report, heartily welcomed the Governor. He said it was not necessary for him as it meaning. It is certainly not often that the problems of daily life can be solved bad been during the past fifteen years to introduce the new Governor of the Colony by equations, simple or quadratic, though the to the Masters and boys. Immediately upon presently refer. Familiarity with progressions equations have their purposes to which I shall arrival he proposed to

College, but owing to the weather arithmetical, harmonical, and geometrical the and the vacation, a postponement had to take produces neatness of arrangement often of place. But on the third of October he paid practical utility. I have myself on various occasions had to remodel scales of salaries, them a visit and made a thorough and com. plete inspection of the College and witnessed allowance rewards etc., to n logical system with first term and a common difference. Trigo both the English and vernacular classes at work. He might say that the impression then nemetry is in some degree a continuation of produced on Masters and boys alike, was of so mensuration bringing in calculations based on friendly a character, that he ventured to wet angles, between straight lines in the case of come him on that occasion as a friend, and not plane and between circular areas in the case of spherical trigonometry. No man can become have to hall him as a stranger. (Applause).

a surveyor and engineer or navigator without a His Excellency then distributed the prizes. The Frize List for 1904-5 was as follows-knowledge of the solution of triangles, that is the calculation of measurements from measured Oxford Locals 1904, (Senior):-Bunjee, C. A. A: Tse Yan-lung, A. A., (Junior)-Galluzzi, sides and angles, which requires the power of R. F. Pang Kwok Sui, Sargon, E. A. Alonço, being able to solve algebraic equations andto use 1. A. Galluzzi, U. C., (Preliminary)-Wong logarithms. Though the theory of logarithms Wai Su Badder Deen, Tsai Wa Cheung, s difficult their use is simple and niechanical, Mooney, R. J. Mok Kai-fuk, Cheung Wo Yau, and by substitution processes of addition Ho Shai Kit.

and subtraction for the more lengthy ones of

Stewart, Hung Iu-chi, Belilios, Junior,lifies complicated calculations. This is one in. Morrison, Junior,--Ng Shuk-kon, IVA multiplication and division enormously simp- Galluzi, U. Belilios, Junior, Ng Cheung instance in which the work of advanced nia- bau, ¡lic. Blake,-Pang Kwok-sai,

thematicians is used to facilitate the practical Special Prizes.Machell Memorial,-Sargon, employment of mathematics by those who have E Translation-E-G. Ng Cheung-han, C. only studied the elements, and if we were to go by I. E. the Governor),-Tang Tal-hung. History,-14. Ping Kwok-sui. I. Teizel, C. subject we should find many other instances in 114. Nazarin, R. 118. Kwok Kwai-sheung, which the formulae derived from difficult 11A. Fung Cheung, 1}[n. Cheong Wa-cheung. processes are made available for the daily use 111c. Au Kai-fan. Pupil Teachers,-Chan

of the engineer, the shipbuilder, the naviga- Tz-yui.

tor and others in similar walks of life who make use of the results obtained by mathematicians without knowing it. Of these higher branches, as they are not taught in this College, it would be superfluous

Scholarships-Morrison Senior-Lam Shin-

TANJUNG PÅGAR DOCK CO.

The following editorial appeared in a recent, issue of the Straits Times:

During the past week or so the directors of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company have had before then the Government's proposals anent the taking over of their property, and in some respects definite results have been attalued. Shipowners and others interested in all that pertains to a ducking concern, have eviuced the keenest anxiety to know what would be the decision arrived at with regard to the actual management of the business; they have been anticipaung big changes and radical reforms. That there is need for such changes and reforms is a thing beyond dispute. Tanjong Pagar with its "+500 per of shipowners for many years pas. Rather than risk the heavy charges of the T.AD, owners have in many cases preferred to get their vessels overhauled at home or have sent them on to Hongkong to the Kowloon Docks though in the latter case it was, perhaps, a leap out of the frying pan into the fire. At any rate a great deal of shipping that would have

cent" and its "extras" has been the dread

been for the good of the Colony has in time

past been diverted from this port for no other

cause than the tightness of the screw put on by the local dock monopolists. As we say, hopes have been entertamed that a relaxation would follow upon the Government's acquirement of the concern. Such hopes are not at all certain of fulfillment. In the outward aspect of the concern there is going to be practically no change in the managerial regime. To all intents and purpose, Tanjong Pagar will be run on the lines upon which the docks of Bombay, for instance, are conducted. The personnel of the directorate will suffer no "sen change" for the present, with the exception of a numerical extension, perhaps, to permit of the admission of two or three Government re presentatives. By and by it may be expected that all non-British representation on the Board will disappear, but this is a matter for.

that none but those whose interests are to be the future and will be effected so gradually

disfranchised will be acutely aware of the fact. So far as the negotiations have gone the posi tion amounts to this somewhat peculiar state, of things. We have bought your Lock," bless your hearts, we don't want it; we wouldn't know what to do with it; take it back again and pay us four per cent. and carry on, we don't want hoge pro" fits." That is the position as nearly as possible. It is a disappointing consummation for the people who pay. When the Board of Directors and the management had no-

The total number of applicants for seats in fest that the source of the weakness must be CE. Tang Tát-hưng, IA. Mathematics (given and consider the higher branches of the says the Government to the Company, "but,

1924 was 682, of which tho (or 23 per cent) fail- ed to satisfy the simple entrance test in Chinese, and 69 more were refused for want of room, Thus 453 boys were admitted. On the other hand, 495 boys left in the course of the year. So long ago as in my annual report, January 1896, I pointed ant that, while this annual change of one-third of the total number of scholars is prejudicial in the best interests of

of this college, 1.e. for over forty years.

sought elsewhere than in the native teacher. The fact is that the cream of all the sections of class IV gu into II, A. and similarly in other classes, the B sections get boys of lower mental calibre.

I append a report by the normal master, Mr. Tanner, upon the pupil teachers under his charge. I agree with him that they have all worked well, and paid great attention. I can-

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Special Prizes: Composition, la Gailuzzi, U.

Curreem, C. A. Budder Deen, in Cheung Ka-shing, IIIA. Lo Kam-cheong, IIIn. Chu Weng-cheung, Illc. Sung Shu-ki.

English Class Prizes, Ja. Lam Shiu-in education, it has always obtained in the history hot sprak too highly of the manner in which (Marrison), Pang Kwok-sui (Blake), Jang Jat-now to speak, except to say that the few of rosy balance-sheet to their shareholders and

Mr. Janner has discharged his duties as nor hung (Mathematics), Galluzzi U. (Sm. Belios), In the Estimates, $56,589 wore voted for mal master, he seems specially adapted to the Alonco, D. (General Progress), B. Lo Chiu- your boys who may be tempted by mathemati the declaration of a thumping dividend, the

ving, Chan Wai-tung, A. Leung Shi-wai, cal aptitude to go beyond your school courses, Wong Hoi-man, 11 Ip Chi, Kok Kwai will find the subject more and more fascinating

Lau Shiu-Nün, sheung, A.

Yeung with each advance in it. This fascination is Pak-in, I. Yeang Nó, Leung Kau-kil

Shuk-kon (Morrison.) Yeung Chák-pak, Lao

as it does the reasoning power to the highest Kwong-san. IV. Lo Ping-nám, Tsó Chák- extent is held by some to be inimical to the min. IVG. Li Lün-kwai, Yeung Shuk-ping. cultivation of the imagination. This reminds VA. Cheng Ka-cheong, Cheuk Man-shu. Vi

me of a story which I am tempted to tell, Cheng Chiron, So Pui-hang. Vc. Cheung though it will probably be more interesting to Hok-ch'au, Ch'an Ki-leung. V. Kó Sik

Shau-min. VI. Ch'an U-kw'ai, Pán Sz-kű. VIC. Chan Hing-chung. Wan Kam-meng. VIIA. Chin Ldp, Lo Hin-cheung. Vilu. Chan U-Chün, Li Pui-cheung. VHC. Yeung Ming- san, Cheng Yuk-un, VIID. Chin Chung-cho, Yeung Kilto, Villa. Tse U-kwai, Kwong In-nün. VII. U Sheung, An Yeung VIIIC, Ch'an Leung-on, Chu Wai-ki,

minor sums were paid to the credit of the celicuce of the course of instruction given c. Ng Cheung-hau, Au Kai-fm. IVA. No nearly a defect in the study, which developing not certain to be better than ever from the that all Goods are being landed at their

Queen's College, of this sam only 560,411 were work, and shows considerable tact in encourag expended, including Crown Agents' Accounting these young teachers i must confess The total amount of lees was $31,048, and however, that after my observation of the ex- Government, leaving $31,337 as the Govern ment share of expenditure on Queen's College for the year 1904 chargeable to the public. It is to be noted that though in the Estimates there was an increase for expenditure of $8,148

point of view of persons who desire to dock their ships. It only four per cent. is required as a minimum, be sure the minimum will not be rashly overstepped. It is sincerely to be hop.d that, before making any final decision,

from outside sources in augmentation of that which they have at hand through the present advisers of the Dock Company, with a view to

risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves Kowloon Wharf and Gedown Company, Ltd.,

delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain-

the actual increase of cost to the Government sion the streets he would pass in going from Ping, Li Kian-sam. VIA. Ip U-pek. Cheung the Masters and other gentlemen here present Government will seek advice in the matter ing undelivered after the 30th instant will be

was only $5,184 for normal master, an ad- ditional English master, five vernacular master's and higher rate of salaries for Chinese assist

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conversation, I was disappointed in the actual knowledge displayed at the examination. Even in the preparatory school I could not accept as conversation 'That is Queen's College, Sir, &c. | No boy could indicate and name in succes.

Queen's College to the Clock Tower or the Civil Hospital. There was also an astounding ignorance of the locality of the Gaol, Again it would appear that pictures do not convey a clear idea to the Chinese utind: one boy called a green hill studded with trees a cloud, several pointed to a curt as an animal. Seasons and dates, human dress and relationships appear to

drilling of several months. Strange to say one of the best classes at conversation was the bot- tom class VIII C composed of boys who en- lered in September (not in March). The pupil

than to the ladies and the scholars. A Cam- bridge undergraduate, who was an enthusiast for literature, with much difficulty persuaded a mathematical friend to read "Paradise Lost." When the book was returned, he expected the friend to be as enthusiastic as himself. But the latter said he could find very little in the work. There was one nent thing. The dimen- Yamasaki M. Ilia. Tsai Wa-cheung, [gions of Salan were given, and the time beceded that things as they stand are not all they having returned on the 25th February. Mr. have been entirely lorgotten after a careful Osman A. M. IVA. Abbas Y. IVa. Kwan In took to fall from Beaven to Hell. It was thus dom with Government red tape superadded is

Mr. A. J. May, the second master, returned to the Colony on the 28th September: Mr. Ralphs had been acting for him up to 29th February and Mr. Dealy from the 1st March;

General Progress.-I. Carreem C. IIA.

Ralphs went on twelve months' leave to Europe on 23rd March. Messrs. de Martin, B. A. (Dublin), und Garett, BA, (Cantab.) arrived on: 25th February and 24th September respectively both gentlemen have zealously and successfully teachers passed a very creditable examination of Calk in Ic. Wong Kai

taken up their work, which being chiefly of an elementary character with Chinese pupils in a novel experience. The former is a new appoint- ment to the eleventh English in istership, put on 1904 Estimates for the first time; the latter fills the vacancy caused by the sad death of Mr. Seymour, who was at his duties from 9 to 12 Saturday, 14th May, was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital at 3.30 the same day on a medical colificate declaring bi to be suffering from Bright's disease, and died Tuesday, 17th May, at 11.30 p.in. dr. Seymour took great interest in the boys' sports, and his classes passed successfully with high percent ages. Four Chinese assistants left in the past twelve months, Mr. Au Wing Ching, 9th C.A.,

ki, Via. Markar H. G. VIC, Gourji 1. VIIA. Ismail A. Vip Osman S. VIIc. Wagener R. VIID. Yeung Pun-sit, VIIIA. Ali Mahomet, VIII. Tsui Yui-sun, VIIIe. Sin Lim.

Vernacular-Class Prizes, IA. Cheung

tsek. 10. Chan U-h'wai. I. Au Yeung-hung. in dictation, grammar, geography, composition, IA. Yeung Shio-po. B. Chiu Táp. translations and in practical and theoretical | Ng Ko-p'eng 11 A. Kwok Wing-chi. III. teaching. Chan Sz-yui came out head of the Kwok U-shang. IIIC. Cheng Yung. IVA.

Chịu Chung thờ. (Vì Chịu Chek fan Ive Lu Ting-in V. Lo Chung-peng, Fung Hon-

list.

i heartily endorse the praise given in the report of the independent examiners to the five masters of the vernacular school for their effi cient and successful teaching in'subjects and on lines entirely new to them. I was particul- arly struck with the excellent discipline main- tained by them, which shows a marked in- provement on the conditions ten years ago, when approach of the headmaster. Six masters, in- cluding my Chinese teacher, sat in conclave to mark all the papers and agice upou-failures

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Ladies and Gentlemen: I have to thank you, The Governor said: Dr. Bateson Wright,

welcome. It has given me special pleasure Dr. Bateson Wright, for your kind words of

to present the prizes to-day at this the principal for over 40 years and has been for more than school of the Colony, which has been established

possible to calculate the distance between the Celestial and Infernal regions by a simple sub- stitution in the formula, Sequals ft. Square. Before I close my remarks I wish to emphasise the use of mathematics other than its immediate practical application. It is recognised to be the study which more than any other develops what I have elsewhere called the male siement of the mind-the reasoning power. I wish also to add a word of practical advice to the boys and a suggestion to the Head Master, blunder in a mathematical operation absolutely vitiating, as it must do, the result obtained by a correct process is the worst of faults, and is generally avoidable by checking. A mere guing over a calculation a second time is not always or even generally the best way of check.

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a revision of the internal economy of the con- cern, and a stoppage of some of the grievous surcharges to which shipowners using the Docks are presently hable. It is generally con- might or should be. Tanjong Pagar official-

still more fearsome to contemplate. There is not much danger, however, of the red tape worked more or less satisfactorily under a supervening. The Docks at Bombay have

Board of Management such as is in process of constitution here. Liverpool too might almost One of the first be cited as a parallel case. new graving dock of 600 or 700 feet, or else the things to be looked for is the construction of a lengthening of one of those already in existence, to allow of the docking of the largest class of ships in the British Navy. The abandonment of the projected Admiralty Dock at New Itar- bour points at the latter alternative as likely to be the ultimate conclusion. To the man in the street there is one all-sufficient gratification about the expropriation scheme, and that is that the profits of this mammoth Dock Company will no longer bulge out the pockets of a com- paratively few individuals, but will be devoted to the common good in the direction of im-

an audible hush from the master heralded the half of that period under your distinguished ing. Sometimes this can be done by reversing proving the Harbour and its defences.

direction. The report which you bave read to us is a business-like document. The record average daily attendance of 1,050 boys shows

the process and generally by an operation of mental arithmetic. I suggest to the Head Master that when he finds a boy habit-

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the Hon. Secretary, Mr. R. DAVID, at the Kowloon Hotel.

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on 3rd February going to the Sanitary Depart and order of merit 738 boys were examined, the great and growing importance of the waily blundering in his calculations he should ment, Mr. Wong Ming, 3rd CA, on 29th one third being in the bottom class, and one-institution, I noted with satisfaction your good make him show at the foot of each solu. February, as interpreter and translator to thirteenth in the top. 97 per cent of the boys report of your staff and the special wards oftion the methad he has adopted to roughly Messrs. Johnston, Stokes, and Master, solici-passed. A satisfactory feature was the land- praise that have been given to the five masters

check it. In conclusion, I would explain tors. Mr, Luk Ki-kwong, 5th C.A., on 31st able improvement of several boys, who after of the Vernacular School. Your remarks on

that I have chosen to give to this College, as March as instructor at the Military College at failing at midsummer ruse twenty or even the work done by the scholars in the different the most important educational establishment Whampoa, and Mr. Wong Kai-leung, 4th C. A. thirty places at the annual examination. It is subjects of study are also interesting and lead in this Colony, the prize for mathematics, be- on 31st December to join the interpretation to be hoped that, in a few years, boys will be

cause the mathematical prize was the one ma to hope that 1905 will be a year of promise. branch of the Registrar General's department. more equally distributed among the five classes, Ladies and gentlemen, you are probably by which, when I was at the Royal Military Members, forms can be had on application to These unavoidable losses temporarily weaken and that few boys will fail to pass the simple this time sufficiently familiar with my methods Academy, I was most desirous of winning, and the strength of the teaching staff Mr. Woog entrance test examination.

Discipline in the college remains excellent.subject of the school as the one to discuss on

to anticipate that shall pick out the weak the article I have selected as a prize is the. Kai-leung, with his bright cheerful disposition

nearest approach I could find here to that and readiness to contribute to the college organ, There is, however, a matter affecting what may this occasion. In order-.not to disappoint which was presented to me for mathematics

be called external discipline to which I desire

you will take the following paragraph twenty-five years ago, and which is now on to draw the attention of the public. There is a from the Head Master's report: "Mathema- my office table, I propose to give a similar tendency on the part of some Chinese parents ties were very weak, a'gebra being the best Prize for the same subject to this College every year while I remain at Hongkong and I hope and guardians to treat Queen's College, as if it

subject, Euclid and mensuration the worst.

the Governor's prize for mathematics will be were a hotel Boys are taken away and sent

considered worth working for. (Applause.)

Dr. Bateson Wright said he had to thank His Excellency very much, for his very kind address. As he had said, they were exceed- ingly weak in mathematics, and the points to which he had referred showed what a grasp he possessed of the subject. The boys had failed in their papers to prove their work, made silly errors, and frequently misplaced the decimal, which was a very serious point. He (the speaker) would certainly endeavour to take up the sul jest of trigonometry as His Excellency had suggested, among the boys in the higher clesses, and hoped that at the annual prize dis tribution next year, they would be able to make a satisfactory report.

The Yellow Dragon, will be specially missed.

Nearly all therecommendations made in para. 7 of my annual report dated 25th January, been carried into effect, 1902, have now with very promising results. An additional English master has been appointed; an allow ance for a normal master has been granted and a vernacular school has been restored.

The results of the Oxford local examinations in 1904 were, as regards Queen's College,inferior to those in 1903, only 18 good marlis being obtained as against 40. The percentage of passes were: senior so, juniors 50 and pre- liminary 78, the last being very satisfactory. It is worthy of record that several boys from this Colony (including this college) have recently found the possession of Oxford certificates of great, value on proceeding to England and America; the senior being accepted in lieu of the Entrance examination required by medical and legat societies, and the junior facilitating admission to various schools,

on a tour of the other schools and readmission Book-keeping in class, IIA produced a fiasco, serious blunders vitiating 70 per is claimed for them on the plea that they prefer

cent, of the papers." Instruction in ma- our fare. Again, boys are sent to Canton or thematics in the College is confined to four Macao and the head master is peremptorily elementary subjects. Arithmetic, including ordered by letter to mark them on leave and book-keeping, plane geometry, mensuration readmit them on their return. Of the 55 boys and algebra. At my request Mr. Wright has dismissed in 1904, nearly all were removed consented to add trigonometry as a subject of from the books for this gross disregard of well-instruction to the higher classes. The practi- known school regulations. It is needless to cal uses of arithmetic are too obvious to require add that leave is willingly granted in all urgent exposition.. It is used in the home as well as cases of sickness or death of relatives, and for in the office in every enumeration, measure- some of the many family functions peculiar to

ment, financial calculation or manipulation of China, but unknown in Europe.

statistics." -Arithmetical operations, are neces- sary for every other branch of mathematics not purely geometrical. Just as figures can be

Last May the register number of a boy on admission to this college was 10,000. Thus in

42 years a myriad names have been eurolled at used to represent lines and areas so lines and

Three cheers were then given for the Gov emor, the visitors and donors of prizes, after which His Excellency called for three cheers for the Head Master, Dr. Bateson Wright, and

Quéra's College, and of these, three quarters areas can represent figurek. The probleme ego- | the proceedings terminated,

Admission to the Show is frie. The Public are cordially invited. Our former Shows were very popular and were visited by Sir Henry and Lady. Blake who expressed themselves highly pleased with the exhibition.

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The Classification of Exhibits is as follows:- 1.-Pouters, Cock or Hea, any colour. 11.

Pairs 11-Jacobins, Cock or Hen, any colour. IV-

Pairs V-Owls, Cock or Hen, any colour." VI. Pairs VII-Homem, Cock or Hen, any colour, VIII.- Pairs IK-Any Other Variety, pairs, Cock or Hen. X-Common Pigeon, any colour, pairs, Cock

or Heg. XI.-Any kind of Cage Birds.

Kowloon Hotel,

zoth Jaquary, 1935)

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J. D. LOGAN,

Director

R. DAVID,

Hon. Secretary

subject to rent

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the sth proximo, or they will not be recognized,

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 30th instant at 3 P.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL & Co., LIMITED; Agents. Hongkong, 24th January, 1905.

Intimation.

THE POPULAR

SCOTCH

IS

"BLACK&WHITE"

JAMES BUCHANAN & CO.

·SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS By Appointment to

B. M. THE KING

and

HRH the PRINCE OF WALES

"OF!

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Supplied at all the LEADING CLUBS and HOTELS, and to be obtained from [17] | the principal sitorge,

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Shipping-Steamers.