A project is on foot, and has taken definite shape, among the Chinese in the Colony to provide for the education of the Chinese masses by the endowment of schools to be supported by voluntary donations and subscriptions, and to be made eventually into corporation, The originator of the scheme is Mr. Ellis Kelly, who has given a fit donation of 340,000. Altogether something like $60,000 have already been subscribed, snd tion will shortly be made to the Government to introduce a Bill in the Legislative Council providing for the scheme. The promoters say that it his long been recognised that a large proof China have no means of giving any education to their children, though undoubtedly they desire todoso. The object of Mr. Ellis Kelly is, understand, to establish schools of a purely secular character for the instruction the Chinese in the Chinese and Englivh angunges, and in such other subjects such as geography, history and science, as might tend towards the establishment of niviual good relations between foreigners e. The education is to be en-in fact, the prevailing idea i to Hongkong School Bourd." No er languages but English and Chinese re to be taught, and the renviining subjects ill be settled by a Council of Adininisteation, The headmasterund teaching star are [lobe engaged in Englund, and the schools, spread over the various districts, will be ged as nearly on the same lines as the Jon School Board ax can he, without of se, the visiting and compulsory powers. Theschools are to be unsectarian in char: ter, the entire aim being to train and develop the young Chinese mind s0 as to titis for the ordinary requirements of modern social commercial life. The pr a considerable favour among the most inflvential Chinese inthe Golony, who have porto it" Hongkong Daily Press" lavishly given or promised pecininry sup-
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