An interesting fact in connexion with the origin of the C.BLS. Anglo-Chine: choel, one of the oldest insutitiuus ut the kind in ohanghal, was mentioned by Dean Symons at ihe prize giving which took place on Thursday afternoon. he schoo! uwes its origin to the act that many years ago the Chaplain of Holy "trinity "Cathedral was drowned while bathing at Pootoo. he Church Missionary Society placed a clergyman at the disposal of the Cathed until a new Chaplain had been appoint ed, and in re to an inquiry from the Cathedral trustees and congregation as to what might be offered by them in return for this} kindness, the Society promptly suggested the establishment of a school for Chinese. The first headmaster was Mr. Fryer, father of the present superintendent of the Chinese School for the Blind, the late Mr. Lanning afterwards hold-° ing the position. Upon his departure, the school almost became defunct until, as the Dean glad to recall yesterday, the pre-} sent headmaster (Mr. W. A. H.} left in sole charge. He carried on the work of the School most suecessfully and was ably supported in this by the Chinese Staff, though a certain amount of social unrest in the Settlement made the task by no means an easy one, especially as Mr. Newsam had so recently arrived in China for the first time.
The past year had been a record one for numbers, and not only had they been full, but had had to turn many boys away. Work had gone on much as usual, with 27 hours a week English and nine hours of Chinese. The Annual Examinations passed off quite successfully, and some of the results were excellent. Good reports of several of old boys, have been recieved one of whom has been appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Post Office, Tientsin; and another, who is an engineer, is constructing the Hunan_ section the Canton-Hankow Railway himself. In connexion with athletics, the School was hampered by the lack of a playing-field, and there appeared no prospect of this difficulty being overcome. For the past two seasons the School has been greatly indented to the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, who have allowed the use of their ground, but the distance was found to be too great for the boys, especially during the winter months, They therefore had to make the best use of the little space available, and the boys indulged in various yard games.
Mr. Moule went on to express regret that the School was losing Mr. H. P. Wilkinson as a trustee. Tus unfailing kindness and interest in it for many years past had been a great help and support. Mr. J. H. Teesdale had kindly taken the vacant place.
He thanked all the Trustees for their help and interest in the School and its work, and especially Mr. Cubitt who had the heavy end of the stick to carry. He also thanked Mr. Newsam and the Chinese Staff for their loyal work and support. They were sorry to bid good-bye to Mr. Lee (Jun.) who had been with them for some years, but wished him every success in the work to which he is going. Several of the boys gave speeches land recitations in excellent Eng-seem that freedom of the city of Moule) took the work in hand and Shanghai has an_ especial attrac-succeded in_a_ splendid revival, tion, for them. It might be possi-while Mr. D. J. Cubitt (who is ble, through ce-operation between ce-trustee with the Dean) brought the Consular Body and the Chinese the finances of the school from authorities, to create a strict chaos to a sound condition. system of passport. One cannot) Thus it was that with a host of leave Shanghai for any country] scholars and fair prospects the now without a passport, and it prize giving was held on Thursday. should, therefore, be no great additional hardship if the production of a passport is insisted upon from all entering the port. In this way, The Dean presided, and among: others present were Mr. L. J. Cubitt, the Rev. W. W. Robins, Mr. J. J. Cubitt, Mr. G. Foster: lish, and M Symons then: presented the prizes, one of the boys then handing her a pretty bouquet of flowers.
A thief entered the house of Mr.
Gordon Towder, No. 107 Bubbling Well Road, between 10 p.m. on Sunday and yesterday morning. Clothing and other property to the value of $225 was stolen. No ar-vest had been made up to yesterday afternoon.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.