This is the season of the year when schools break up, and when His Excel-Iency the Governor will find fall employment for all spare time, should enjoy such a boon, in visiting the several educational institutions of the olorly, to give prizes to the successful students, and to make speeches. He has already been at St. Joseph's College, which, this year, is one of the first on the list. The Governor fixed upon the most salient features of the Roman Catholic School in his speech, and pointed out that, as it made provision for resident Hongkong boys, it was specially of interest to him. Those schools that educated Chinese would indeed be educating them for the greater China beyond, but not for Hongkong. On the other hand, this schoo! made provision for the Portaguese section of the Colony, and these for the most part remained with us. Others attend the school, and some Protestants, also, get their education therein. But mainly the scholars are the children of the Portuguese, and, therefore, the Roman Catholic community. The results of the year's working must have been very satisfactory to the masters and the directors of the school, for the Government grant has been increased, and the school has been returned as " thoroughly efficient."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.