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826 of English, and seven Chinese teachers of Chinese. The students come (roin P'ormosa, Manila. Swatow. Singapore, Rangoon. Foo- chow, and neighbouring towns in the Fokien Province, and are usually the sons of Man

THE HOPE AND WILHELMINA HOSPITALS, AMOY. darins, merchants, and literati. The expenses of a resident student are roughly $100 per annum, and last year 216 were enrolled. The immediate aim of the school is to give a liberal English and Chinese education, while its ultimate object is to teach the students to think and study for themselves, to inspire them with a keen sense of right and wrong, and to develop their spiritual instincts along broad Christian lines. In these directions much success has already been achieved, and Mr. Kankin and Mr. H. J. P. Anderson. M.A.. the vice-principal, may be relied upon to see that there is no falling away from the high standard reached. Mr. Hugh Fraser Rankin, F.S.A. (Scotland), F.E.I.S., was born in 1868 at Garthlick, In- verness-shire. Scotland, and was educated at Moray House College and at Edinburgh University, where he was medallist in science and honoursman in education and engineer- ing. He went to Singapore as principal of the Eastern School in 1896, and four years later took up his present post at Amoy.

TUHG WEH IHSTITUTB. The Tung Wen Institute was founded in 1898 by Mr. A. Burlingame Johnson, the American Consul at Amoy, and six wealthy Chinese merchants. The object of the school is to provide the Chinese with an opportunity of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the English language, a sound business education, and elementary instruction in the sciences. Religious teaching of all kinds is prohibited, and a respectful toleration of the various beliefs is insisted upon. The building, erected in 1902, affords accommodH- tion for six hundred day pupils, and two hundred boarders. The situation is high and healthful, and easily accessible from both the city and the harbour. The rooms are large, cool, and well lighted. Three regular courses of study are offered — the grammar course, requiring from four to six years to complete ; the advanced course, open to those who have completed the jirammar course, and requiring from two to three years to complete ; and the Chinese course, equivalent to that required for middle schools by the Chinese educational Board, to be taken independently of, or conjointly with, the English courses. Mr. Charles J. Weed, the superintendent, has obtained considerable academic distinction. He was born in 1870, in Wisconsin, and was educated at public schools in Iowa and Oregon, at McMinndille College, and at Portland and Willamettae Universities. After successfully taking the graduates course, he came to China in 1900, to take up his present appointment.

THE NEW AMOY DOCK COMPANY, LTD. The prosperity of a seaport depends in no small degree upon the efficiency and capacity of its dock accommodation, and in this respect Amoy is exceedingly fortunate. The dock owned by the New Amoy Dock Company has been in existence since 1858, but the Company, as at present constituted, was Hoated in 1892, being registered in the British Colony of Hongkong with a sub- scribed capital of $67,500. Messrs. Robert Hunter Bruce and William Snell Orr, who have now retired, were the two leading spirits in the formation of the Company and were the first directors. Since that time nearly Sioo.ooo have been invested in new machinery and upon improvements to the property, so that now orders can be executed with much greater despatch than was possible formerly. The Company carry on the busi ness of marine, mechanical, and electrical engineers, shipbuilders, boiler-makers, and iron and brass founders. They possess a well- constructed granite dry dock, capable of taking vessels up to 310 feet between perpendiculars ; machine shop, foundry, boiler

THE ANGLO-CHINESE COLLEGE, AMOY. (H. F. Rankin, Superintendent.)