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Rh different parts of the country and committed to the school. A few taken at random may be cited:—Emma H., 9 years, and Stephen H., 7 years, committed in 1868. Found in an infamous home, while mother in gaol. The girl now married and doing well on the West Coast; the lad an industrious and respectable workman. 2. James P., 8 years, illegitimate and homeless, committed in 1868. Working steadily, and has at present £18 to his credit. 3. Louisa, Eliza, Ellen, Eva, and Ada W., aged respectively 9½, 8, 7, 5½, and 3½ years, committed in 1868. Deserted by father, and mother an abandoned woman and in gaol. All except the youngest now married, and all living worthy lives. 4. Jessie and George M., 9 and 10 years, committed in 1869. Found in an infamous house, in which they were brought up from infancy. Father a convicted thief, and mother an abandoned woman. Jessie now married to a respectable man in good business, and George pursuing his way most creditably. 5. Henry and Robert R., 8 and 4 years, committed in 1869. Mother a transported convict, and father also a convicted thief. Henry and Robert have grown to be good men. 6. Isabella, Eliza, James, and David W., 10, 9, 5, and 2 years, committed in 1870. Found homeless and neglected. Father an elderly and sickly man, and mother drunken and of abandoned life. Eliza is well married, James is also married, and all are living worthy lives and prospering. 7. Edmund W., 10 years, committed in 1869. Convicted of theft, and said to have been for three years trained systematically to thieving. Has £14 now to his credit; doing well. 8. Anne F., 12 years, committed in 1870. Convicted of theft and vagrancy. Married and received balance of her earnings, about £20; doing well. 9. Thomas G., 11 years, committed in 1874. Convicted of theft. Father a transported convict, and mother also a notorious thief. Is now a farmer in partnership with his brother, also a former inmate, and both living industriously and respectably. The balance of Thomas's earnings, amounting to £15, was handed to him when he took up the land. These illustrative cases, taken indiscriminately from a mass, show conclusively (to quote the words of Dr. Guthrie), "the work which our school has achieved and is achieving." It of course goes without saying that some of those who pass through the school fall into evil ways, and