Tuy "Civ" Prize. to Members of the S.M.P. Shooting Club only.
Ranges, 200 and 500 yards.—Bight Prizes.
This prize was shot for this morning. The weather was favourable for good shooting. Gh. Insp. Cameron and Sergt. Wilson each put on 30 at 200 yards. The following are the eight prize winners and their soures Sim,—The system for writing Chinese by the Blind described in your paper recently is quite as well adapted for use in communicating with the Deaf.
According to the MWa-fong-yuan-yin. (FFF 7B) every sound in the language can be represented by number (or more properly two numbers) indicating the initial and final. It takes only twenty initials and twelve finals to do this. The Chinese method of it numbers upon the la almost like that used by the Deaf, When they learn to make this analysis of an initial and a final in-a: character their buck vocabulary can be repre. sented most rapidly upon the fingers.
Chinkiang, 14th Sept.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.