The second annual meeting of subscribers to the above school was held on Monday afternoon in the Municipal Council Board Room, There were some thirty Indies and gentlemen present, and the chair was taken by Mr. J. G. Purdon, the Chairman of the Municipal Council The proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev. W. Muirhead, and the minutes of the previous meeting were taken as read, after which the Chairman said the meeting was called to receive the report and pass the accounts, Hosnid that the report showed avery satisfactory state of affairs at the schoola and that the accounts showed an aggregate income since 1888 of Ts. 14,400 odd, & good amount for this uew start, From last year's subscription and building fund, the committee were able to carry $1,278 to endowment fund, He proposed that the second annual report and accounts for 1892 be approved and passed.
Mr. C. Thorne in seconding' said that they had received great kindness fom the public, and sincerely hoped that thw public would contribute even small sums of $10 and $12 a year, They had asked the Municipal Council tu grant them Tls. 1,500 a year to carry on the school in asatisfuctory manner. The new teacher had arrived recently and it was hoped the school would flourish more than ever under, the two Misses Gaskin, and he invited those me terested in the schoo! to call on Thuredays.
The proposition was carried, The Rev. W, Muirhead wished to take the opinion of the meeting as to the advisability of admitting Chinese buys to the school. He thought that as the school wna a large it could accommodate 30 to 40 Chinese boy who would pay for their education, but on show of hands, it was found that only "few were in favour of it, after the Chairman had stated that the school way started for Ea-tasian children, and that many of the subscribers had'given their money for that pur only. said that as the annual with the income from the mit fund for 1892 did not "mount:
500, the Manicipal Council were called upon by the deed of truat to noniinate all the Committee. which they did as follows:—Mr, and Mes, Q, J. Bois, Mra, Burkill, Mrs, Buchanan, Mrs. Courts, Mrs. Drummond, Dr, Fryer, the Rey, W. Muirhead, Messrs, J. G. Purdon, N. A. Siebs, J. Mucgregor, and C, Thorne.
Mr. Thorne announced that the distribu. 5 tion of prizes at the Be School would take place at 4 p.m. vext Monday.
The Ven. Archdexcon Moule having pronounced the benediction, the meeting 2 separated.
The Committee in their report tendered their best thanks ce those who had so kindly taken an interest in its welfare,—they were especially grateful to Dra, Henderson, Macleod and Milles for their medical at. tendance, and to Drs, Perkins and Ivy for dental supervision, and which all these gentlemen had so freely rendered, It was hoped that many who had not yet become subscribers, might be induced to do ssu during the present year, Mrs, Fryer and the Rev, H. ©. and Mrs, Hudyes had retired from the C mittee, having left Shanghai for a time, 'Their collongues wished to bexr testimony to the valuable aid they ata'l times rendered, and the grent interest. they manifested in forwarding the objects of the Institution, 'There had not been any change in the man-the Boys' School. Mrs. Young-mand Miss Deighton still continued to carry on the work in a most satisfactory manner, The Committee had again to ré- port. several changes in the Girls' School. Miss Gaskin arrived from Evgland in February to undertake the educational part of the work. On the marriage of Mis
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