The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-24
FORT STREET SCHOOL.

A crowded audience attended the
exhibition of Fort Street School
this morning An assembly, more
select and cosmopolitan in its make
up, could not, probably, be attracted
to school exhibition in any other
city of similar extent, in the world.
Europeans, Americans and Polyne-
SLAMS occupied the seats, and faces
of every shade of complexion filed
the open doors and windows. Among
the spectators there were His Ma
jesty the King, attended by his
Vice-Chamberlain; the Honorable
Chief Justice; Their Excellencies
the Minister of Foreign Affairs and
President of the Board of Educa-
ton, and the Attorney General the
Auditor General, also member of
the Board of Education; the In
spector General of Schools; His
Imperial japanese Majesty's Com
missioner the Hawaiian Consul to
Japan; Rev. c. M. Hyde, Mr..
Atkinson, etc., etc. The pupils
performances were all excellent,
and were evidently received with
perfect satisfaction by the specta-
tors, as was manifested in the fire.
quent outbursts of rapturous APP
plause with which they were greeted.
The walls of the room were taste
fully decorated with palm leaves,
and also with the products of the
artistic skill of the drawing classes.
Portraits and profiles of the human
face divine, with drawings of ele-
plants and lesser specimens of the
animal kingdom, were hung round
in considerable numbers. Songs,
dialogues and recitations were given
in fine style. The exercises, in de-
tail, were according to the following
PROGRAMME.
Song-The Roses School
Recitation-The Little Hero. .R. Dexter
Song-I'll Paddle my own Canoe. School
Recitation-Destiny. Maggie Mossman
Song-Parting Song. ..........S School
Recitation-The School Boys Com
position. *. Moore
Piano Duet (2)-1'he Chatelaine Waltz
............H. Brown and o. Sintaro
Song (2)-Come with me..... ....
............M. Lishman and II Ward
A Dear Little Goose.
Pieces ca I M. Dover
How 1t Began. &c. Scott
Song-Ahi Wela. ...........S School
Recitation-The Brier Rose. ........
Il. Dover, j. MCGOWAN & B. Weight
Song-Widow Dunn. .......W. Berger
Composition-Land Shells. w Baldwin
Music on the Waves. .........
Songs The Mermaid's Song. Girls
The Magician. ............B Boys
Recitation-The Farmer who become
Drum Major. M. King g. Z. Dexter
Recitation-The Walrus and the Car
penter. ...............A A. Neumann
Song-The Light House. School
Recitation-Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 81.
NV. Coney, l.. Mott & j. NJ. Camara
His Excellency w. M. Gibson
and the Inspector-General of Schools
addressed the school in few re-
marks congratulating the pupils on
the success of their work during the
year, after which the pupils to whom
prizes had been awarded, came for
ward and received their prizes from
the hands of His Majesty the King,
and returned severally to their places,
through storms of applause from
the assembly. The principal prizes
were given by the President of the
II 7 Al
tor-General of schools, and were for
proficiency in scholarship. To these
were added prizes by several teach
ers to pupils of their respective de-
partments for various points OF
merit. After the prizes were dis
posed Of, the proceedings closed
with Hawaii Ponoi.
The list of Prizes will appear in
| full tomorrow.