The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-07-28
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The Native and Foreign Schools
of Honolulu.
A Full Account of the Weeks Proceedings
AT the Kamoiliili and Kaumakap!lI
Churches, and at the Royal School
the Fort-Street School, lolani College,
Pohukaina School and Miss Ayletts
School.

The examination of the Southern Com
mon Schools was held on Monday at the
Kamoiliili Church., when the ManOa, KAN
oiliili and Waikiki Schools were examined
by Mr.. ID. Malo, NJ Sa.n Kaaikaula and
Mr.. d. K~ahaAanui, under the supervision
ofAIr. d. d. Baldwin, the Inspector-General
of Schools. The three schools represent one
hundred and three pupils, of whom eighty
eight were present. The Waikiki school
was. by far, the best in all branches, esreci-
ally in singing. At the end of the exercises
several of the pupils gave recitations and
dialogues, which were thoroughly enjoyed
by the parents present.
THE NATIVE school.
On Tuesday the examinations of four of
the native schools, the Kalihi-uka, Kalihi-
kai, Pauoa, and the Moanalua, were held in
the Kaumakapili Church, and lasted all the
day. OF the four, the Kalihi-uka School
was decidedly the best, and the committee
who conducted the examination cOmpli-
mented Mr.. b. w. Kekuinai the teacher,
on the good results of his WORK.
Wednesday the Kawaiahau, K~aumakapili,
Roma zane and Roma waihini Schools were
examined, and, out of a total number of
one hundr and sixty-One pupils, one hun
dred and twenty-seven were present; of
these the Kaumakapili and Roma kane
Schools were, by far, the best, and the re-
suits shown by them very satisfactory.
H. r. III. Princess Liliuokalani was present
at all the examinations of the native
schools, and took great interest in the
results.
HI ROYAL school,.
Before 9 o'clock Wednesday morning peO-
pie began to arrive in numbers at the
Royal School, the public examinations
having been announced to commence at
that time. Throughout the day there must
have been quite a thousand people present,
and among them were noticed II. r. H.
Princess Liliuokalani and His EXcellency
w. NJ. Gibson, President of the Board of
Education. In the Royal School there are no
less than eleven rooms, each under a
separate teacher. No. l room with thirty
pupils, is in charge of the Rev. A. Mackin-
F tosh, principal of the school, The number
of pupils in the other rooms and their
teachers are as follows: No. > twemty-three
pupils, teacher Mr.. w. II. Dow; No. 3
twenty-one pupils, teacher Miss Lewis; No.
4 twenty-five pupils, teacher Miss Tanner;
No. . thirty-one pupils, teacher Miss.
Smithies; No. 6 thirty pupils, teacher Miss
Louisa BrickwOod; No. I twenty-nine
pupils, teacher Miss Fernandez; No. 8
thirty-one pupils, teacher Miss Minnie
Brown; No. 8 the pupils were not present,
as the teacher Miss Prescott was absent
through i'll health; No. 10 twenty-nine
pupils, teacher Miss Andrew; No. IL thirty
one pupils, teacher Miss Babcock.
There were, in all, about three hundred
and ten children present out of three hun
dred and forty, the number on the school
roll. The work in the morning in the
various rooms consisted of arithmetic, die
tatiOn, reading, singing and calisthenics.
Room No. l contains the most advanced
pupils, and room No. IL the beginners.
There was some slight inattention on the
part of the pupils consequent upon the
number of strangers in and about the
rooms, but on the whole there could be no
complaint on thiss score. Some of the boys
showed particular aptitude and rapidity in
arithmetic, the sums being hardly given
out by the teacher than they were finished.
Rooms six, seven and eight were thrown
into one when a spelling match took place
in which Miss Brickwood's boys came off
victorious. This was followed by some eX-
cellent singing with a whistling chorus,
Miss Fernandez playing the harmonium
In one room it seems that the boys are
taught to shrug their shoulders, an accom-
plishment generally supposed to be pecu liar
to young ladies. In rooms numbers one
and two some maps were shown which eX-
hibited considerable talent, two of them
done by Lui and John Kea being selected
for the Boston Exhibition. The reading in
room number one was particularly good,
especially that of a boy who looked several
years the junior of the others i'll his class.
1t was suggested that a passage should be
read from a newspaper to test the powers of
the pupils in reading from sight and the re-
suit was all that could be desired. In the
rooms up stairs the atmosphere was decid-
eddy cooler than it was down stairs, the chill
dren as n rule seemed more attentive and
under better control. \ public eXamina-
ton is however not quite a fair test, but
particular mention might be made of the
classes under Miss Smithies, Miss Brick
wood, and Miss Andrew. Some of
the rooms were very prettily decorated
with evergreens, especially that of Miss
Smithies and everywhere might be seen
the greeting aloha.
At twelve O'Clock all the classes met in
Mr.. Mackintosh's and the adjoining rooms
where the doors had been thrown open. A
two-part song, Miss Smith es playing the
accompaniment was iOlIoWeu Dy
THE REGULATIONS.
The selection of recitations was excellent
and of sufficient variety to make it inter
esting to every one. Every number of the
programme was well received, especially
the comical pieces, three of which were
given in character dress.
Deserving of particular mention was
Damon and Pythias" TRANSLATED from
Schiller), by ], Bolster. "Th Ghost" by
Kalahiela, was well rendered as was also a
Morning Hymn to Mount Blanc" by
Keola. 1.-THE Retort" and IA Smack in
School," two short but interesting pieces re-
cited by Fitzsimmons and 5. X. Pua were
also very good. Last but by no means, the
least excellent was little ". Fernando rem
dition of 4" Sergeant Buzfuz' " speech. lie
took his audience completely by surprise
and commanded their attention until the