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Class III.—47 boya,
1. Sn Ki-nam, watch, by Mr. Leung Paichi; 2, Tee Shin-lenng, pencil case, by Government.
Clasa IV.—di) boys.
1. Yau Tak-wa, watch, by Mr. Ng Yun-leung; 2, Lam Tso-un, pencil case, by Government.
Class V.--51 boys.
1, Cheung Yuk-tsün, watch, by (overnment; 2, Ng Yik-sün, pencil case, by Government.
Clas VL-45 boys,
1, Wong Ip-ku, watch, by Government; 2, Pun Min, pencil case, by Government.
Class VII.44 boys.
1, Wong Shiu-pang, pencil case, by Government; 2, Chan Kwai-tsang, pencil case, by Government.
Class VIIL-15 boys.
1, Yenng Teanfoong, pencil case, by Government; 2. Lo Fü-kun, Dictionary, by a friend of the School.
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[January 23, 1895.
You
never regret the trouble, work, and time which, you have devoted to your studies. To those who have been defeated, I say work on. Do not ba in the least discouraged. Let your present defeat make you look within and ask yourself why you have not succeeded. Let it make you use next year more patience, more care, and more self-denial, and remember that those who are first in the beginning of a race do not often keep that position and that to many men who bavo attained success- and greatness their first defeats in early life bave been blessings
Some in disguise.
of you,
no doubt, at the end of this scholastic year are ab at to leave the school and begin life. May I be al... lowed to say a few words to you? Remember always this school, the pleasant days you bave spent here, the kin: treatment you have always recived, the sound advice and words of warding and wisdom which have here guided you will often want these memories to help you and to cheer you in after life; and they will be pleasure to you if you properly use them. the ordinary course of things you have a life of work before you. Never kok upon work or labour a curse, but greet every morning your daily task as a blessing ; for work, to a legitimate Were we to draw our food extent is a blessing. out of the atmosphere by the act of breathing, had we no call to cultivate the earth or other. we would be wise to labour for our wants, without incentive to be doing, we would be without that prompting to activity of body and spirit which is indispensable to bongancy and health and the imparting of zest to life. It we had no wants in this life we would avo no pleasures. Some of the happiest mo- ments of your life will be when, after hard and continued work, you have triumphed over diffi. culțies and obstacles. Be sure that good and honest work, done in a right spirit and from a proper motive, will never lose its reward. The roward may be long delayed; it will come at the Never despair! Work on! right moment.
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ing and training is never absent from the minds of Mr. and Mrs. Piercy. This question has been more or less a burning bus on the occasion of the recent election of the Lon- don School Boa d and one of the leading journals, in recording the defect of candidate whose election would ultimately have led to the exclusion of the Bible from the teaching in the schools, says "We rejoice at the rebuff Wedo not think the Bible can be spared from the education of the English people. In the English version it is the greatest work in our literature. It has been the basis, if not of conduct, yet of principles; it has shaped the ideal, if it his but imperfectly acinated the life of modern Europe. It speaks with an authority indefinite and unanalysed. but still unique in its impressive. ness. to the minds and hearts of men. In England, a Sir John Lubbock lately pointed out, there has been a great decrease of crime during the quarter of a century which bas On Wednesday afternoon the large school room passed since the Act of 1870 came into opera- "of the Diocesan School and Orphanage was well
There are 5,000,000 children in school filled with the friends of the institution end of the now as against 1.500.000, then, and there are pupils, it being the occasion for sub sitting the | 5,000 persons in pri-on now as against 12000; yearly report and distributing the prizes Util
thon; while the number of ju enile offenders 14,000 to 5,000. From these the arrival of His Hoteur Mr. E. J. Ackroyd, has fallen from Acting Chief Justic, and the Richt Rov. Bishop figures Sir John infers, with Victor Hugo, Burdon, the school band discoured music in the that he who opens a school closes a prison. It In France. compound, and then marched in like youug depends upon what sort of school soldiers to their section of the school room. The as statistics quoted by a French jourual, the bead-master, Mr. G. Pray, Jane., then read the Temps, show as schools have been opened it has report for the year and fim do the sam» with
been found nicessary to enlarge the prisons: the list of priz winners, to each of whom the the diffusion of education has bon Acting Chief Justics handed the rewardį
panied by a great increas in the number The
of offenders, and especially of juvenile offenders." | ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE then` said— In the absence of His Excellency the Govern ›e,
And the reason of this is given by a French which we all. I am sure, greatly regret, I have writer, M. Max Loelare, in his Les Professions had much pleasure in, presiding at this annual
et La Societen Angleterre." Hesays:-"Eng- ineeting. A distribution of prizes, showing, ak
land, like uskud b·f_rý us, has made instruction it generally does, the result of the yea's secular and universal, but, while with as the scholastic work and teaching is n durally looked cous quone seems to have been an increase in forward to by masters, teachers, and p pils with ignora ization and in criminality, with her the more or less anxiety and interest. The head prison population has diminished by more than
a half and the number of juvenile prosecu master and teachers have is a rule t› submit the result of their labours to the criticism of their tons by more than two thirds sincs the pas- friends and supporters, the pupils to recaive the sage of thi orster Act. Why this absolute rewards of their labour or to learn the news of
contrast? Beanse i «the two countries the same their defeat. In presence of the report which measures have been applied in entirely different has just hoop read to us. I gu sure you will all ways In Fugland the spread of moral educa- agree that Mr. and Mrs Prey and The assistant tion has gone step by step with that of instruc- masters have very little, if anything, to fear from
In France, on the other hand, we have any bostile criticism; for the result, both of the cultivated the intelligence of our children, but Every Oxford local examination and the examination by we have just taught them conduct. has been, paid kind of attention
to the the Government Insp ctor are most sitisfact>ry
next to DoDe.' Out of sight boys who entered for the Oxford mind; to morality non ›. local examination, six of the juniors passed; and Now that is a very serious accusation to bring the result of the Government examination has against what the writer calls instenetion; and other been that the grant this year is twenty-three per although may hold that there are cent. more than last year and the highest that causes at work, which may be removed, still the the school has ever caru d. Such results, obtained fact of this enlargement f prisons and increase in a year such as that through which we have of juvenile offenders exists and it is one whic
The past year has been a time of exceptio:ial passed, are of themselves a sufficient testimony every friend of education must sincerely regret to the zeal, ability, and interest which all can- Let us be wise and take it as a warning. What anxiety and trouble. Ly spring a boarder from
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a Cost Port was removed to the Government. cerned in teaching must have displayed and a e we teaching the pupils of this school P taken in the pupils committed to their care The. we imparting to them merely a certain amount Hospital with smallpox, and despite the utmost friends of this institution will. I am sure, ac- of knowledge or book-learning or are we teach-care of Dr. Lowson and the unrses succumbed. knowledge with deep thankfulness God's care ing and training them so that what they learn There has been no other death amongst the and protection displayed in the fact that, bore will enable them and induce them to lead scholars since November, 1882. although the plague was raging not far from good and useful lives hereafter? Remember with the rest of the colony our work was them, only one of the inmates of this in- that knowledge is power, whether it is in the seriously interfered with by the plague, but it stitution was attacked by it, It must, how hands of a Pasteur or an Edison, who by their was not stopped: school was taught on 251 days, have been a time of great anxiety for wonderful researches and discoveries are adding that is, 12 days more than in the previous At the suggestion of our medical Mr. and Mrs Piercy and we mst all rejoice to the happiness and comfort of mankind and year. with them that the health of the inmates of the defeating some of the evils which af et us; or advisers, day scholars from infected neighbour- hoods were given the option of becoming boarders institution has been so satisfactor I am glad whether it is applied by an anarchist, whose ao
free of charge, or staying away altogether: to note in the report that the scholars are drilled.quaintance with the explosive forces of certa n I saw some very good remarks on that subj ot substances enables him to make bombs for the quite a number took the former course, and our in a paper th other day. It said that drilling | destruction of life and property. To the pupils daily average never fell below 44, or half our
We
́s are thankful to say no wish to address a few words of cou- usual attendance. taught the boys to hold up their heads and in general walk straight. I hope all of you boys will gratulation, and sme‹f warning to the success pupil bere suffered from the disease, and in be able to hold up your heads and willful boys and of encouragement to those who have autumn all returned and our numbers were con- walk straight before the world I have been defeated in the contest, I congratulate siderably higher than in the corresponding not seen this year's report of the finances, you on your success, but I would ask you, what months of 1893. We bave, howev r, sorrow for but I think last year's report is satisfactory has been the motive which has guided von and the loss of two former pupils, who were employed Has it been merely in business offices, one of whom lodged in the and it shows that His Institution is fully deservinged you on in this rac-? ing of the support which it menta, because it is in order to be first, to defeat other boys, to Institution. almost self-supporting. I have no intention to- prove your superiority, and to gain a prize ? In day to deliver an essay or address on the imhat unse, you could hardly have had a lower mo- portance or advantages of education or on the tive; you get your reward because you have necessary duty of ke ping up such an institution reward bie's will soon disappear and leave WC for it and so far deserved it; but it is
Eighty boys were examined by the Government As this out. In presence of some f ets noted in a Europe with regard to the results of educano trace of pleasure or profit behind it; wh ra. Inspector of Schools in December; 78 passed, or to your 97 5 per cent. (last year 93 *) In writing, geo- tion, there is one remark which I wish to make: as, if all your work and attention I am glad that instruction is given in the Holy studies have had their mainspring in a sense of graphy, English history. English composition, Scriptures and that Mr. Cobbold is able again | duty, in a desire to please those who were taking and elementary science 100 pec -ut. passed; read- to report so satisfactorily on the results and such pain's to teach yon, or in order to fit you to ing 97; grammar 95; dication and Fuclid 91, that there is evidence of careful teaching. i b of some use hereafter to others, then your physical geography 87; algebra 70; arithmetic am quite sure that the importance of moral teach-reward will be great and lasting and you will | 65; mensuration (a new subject) 37.5. There has
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funt and weary, perhaps, at times, but over ready and puraning, assured that, at the proper time and when you are best able to appreciate and value your reward, it will be given, and then in no niggardly spirit, nor with a miser's hand, for we are told in that book of which I spoke at the power be- beginning of these remarks, that
and that “Thou, Lord, art longe th unto God merciful, for thou rewardest every man accord ing to bis works (Applause.)
Bishop BURLON proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Ackroyd and announced the holidays.
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Cheers having been given for the Chief Justice, Bishop Burdon, the ladies and the boys, with three cheers for Mr. and Mrs. Piercy aud the masters of the school, the proceedings were brought to a close,
THE HEAD MASTER'S REPORT.
In common
Eight boys entered the Oxford local examina- tious in July, I senior and 7 janiors: 6 of the latter passed Tue seven candidates who took the bookkeeping paper, all passed in that subject.
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