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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [Feb. i. 1894. 
would like to sea revived to Bome exteat io the 
present day waa the old proverb on whioh the 
Jews aoted that parents who did not train their 
sona to a haadioraft tempted them to become 
thieves. Fortunately Mr. Huskin'a teaching was 
beginning to take deep root and attaohed to 
nearly all Pablio Schools now in tha old country 
were carpenters' if not engineering ebops. They 
had all been taught to admire self-made men, 
but trained skilled hands were better as might be 
seen from that master of humour, 0. W. Holmes' 
deaoription in the " Autoorat of the Breakfast 
Table" of the aelf-made-IrishCarpenter's house 
built by himself from drain to chimney top.— Now 
he would wish to press on the 63 pupils enrolled 
that day, that in a very special degree the re- 
putation of the new sohool would depend on 
how the first year's class did credit to their 
Principal and his Asaistanta. Lot them remem- 
ber, too, that they were part of a large band of 
Technical students at work in tha world, although 
BO far as England was oonoerned, only 20 years 
had elapsed sinoe the movement began, 10 sinci 
tha Central Institute at South Kensington was 
formed and only 5 years since tha English Aot 
for the promotion of Technical Instruction was 
passed. In conclusion he would urge tha pupils 
to remember that half efforts never accomplished 
anything, and while taking advantage of the instruc- 
tion, the apparatus and opportunities presented 
them in the Sohool, to realize that for their advance- 
ment they must rely mainly upon themselves. The 
plodding industrious lad who was temperate in all 
things and ciretul abjut the little habits whioh 
went to build up a solid oharaoter— the most 
valuable thing in the world,— never failed to get on. 
A capacity for taking pains about little things was 
among tha most valuable of the talents ; and he 
would wish them to enter into the meaning of a 
good old Scotch saying with its modern applica- 
tion, — " there's nae luck like pluok." When they 
were faosd by difficult, long or laborious tasks, 
let them recall the favourite proverb of Sir 
Walter Scott— himself one of the hardest of 
workers—'* Time and I, gentlemen, against any 
TWO I " (Applause). 
Tlie Solicitor-Gener&l. 
Mr. P. RAMANATHis afterwards made a few 
remarks urging tha students to consider well 
what had fallen from the other speakers. When 
they assembled next year about this time he 
fancied they would not have to listen to 
epeeobes, but to hstan to the results that 
the students had achieved under the instruc- 
tion of Mr. Human and his assistants. 
As a native of Ceylon ha would be most pleased 
(o hear that they had utilizad to the full all the 
advantages which they had, (Applause) 
The Lieut,- Governor. 
His EsoELijBNCt then said it must be very 
gratifying to the D.rdctor of Public Instruction 
and to the Superintendent of tha Institute, as it 
had certainly been to him as the principal officer 
of the Governmant to fiad that so many leading 
members of tha community were in a position to take 
and express a practical interest in the institution 
and to pcomisa encouragement and oo-operation. 
It was a disappoin.mant to them all that His Ex- 
cellency the Governor had not been able to be pre- 
sent. His Excelleacy, as those who had worked with 
them in bringing tha institution to the present 
point knew, had taken a great interest in xhi 
startiag of the Teolmicil Suhoo', and is was only 
from the unavoidably short notice in fixing this 
meeting and from the Governor Having made other 
engagements, that he waa prevented from being 
there. This might be looked upon as the tormai 
opening of the echool, but from what the 
Supermtendeut had stated it would have been 
gathered that thu instiiutioo had already been 
op3ned and been at work fur eonie six or Eeven 
months, and he thought the Director of Public 
Instruction and the Superintendent bad done 
wisoly in waitiag to enk them to come 
there until the workshops bad been ooni- 
pleted and tilted. Although Mr Human 
bad bean in their midst for nearly twelve montbe, 
and they were only now having the first formal 
meeting in connection with the Institute, he had 
been by no means idle. When Mr. Human eamo 
first among them be found them, ae be would not 
tell them but as be (H.E ) was prepared to son 
foss, utterly ignorant as to the mode in which 
they should arrive at tht objects and which they 
BCdmed to becoming so near now, and be bad 
converted the place as tbey bad ceen that day into 
a scene of very very practical industry. (Applause.) 
Some of the speakers had been good enough to 
make complimentary remarks regarding what Go- 
vernment bad done in promoting this institution. 
It was always very agreeable to give and to do 
a gojd thing, and hi waa very glad uf the 
opportunity of expressing the obligaticnu wbiob 
hs as a member of the Government, and be was 
sure the Governor himaelf fe t to the gentlemsn who 
had given iheir counsel aad kind a^s staaoa in 
the work. Mr. Mitohell bad taken the warmest 
interest in it, and Mr. Geo Wall, whose 
absence hu joined with the others in regretting. 
He was sure that it would have been 
most gratifying to the venerable gentlemen 
who had taken such a spiciitl interest in the in- 
stitution — and be believed from assoaiatious of 
bis youth had spsoial reasons for being inteieated 
in such work — to have been present and to Hse 
the excellent start whioh the Institution had made 
under Mr. Human. Hu joined too in the remarks 
which had be^n mad>i aa to the absence of auotber 
gentleman, Mr. Grinlintoo, but he would sooa 
be among them. He bad b^ea absent nearly 
thirteen months doing most useful work and they 
hoped to be able to cordially welcome him back 
again in a few days. He had their work most 
thoroughly at heart and in his usual business 
lite and practical manner furthered its objects. His 
two colleagues in the Government service bad 
anticipated some remarks he had intended to 
make in the directioa of tha hope that might be 
held out of appointmeats in their respective oepart- 
menta of Survey and Public Works to bo)b who 
passed through that Colkg':s , for he was suie that 
the education which candidates from that College 
had would relieve these officers of a consider^ttle 
amount of trouble in technical education, but 
be wiahel the bovs not to look to the 
Goverament Departments for their best employ- 
ment or as their chief goal. He hoped they would 
go out and get employment on their own account 
and do much better than they could in the pub ic 
service. (Applause.) He wouli be glad if one of 
the effects of the inatiuotion imparted in that 
College was to divest into other employments a 
great number of those who now fijcked into the 
clerical service not only of the Government but of 
the colony generally where they receive 1 far leas pay 
that they would receive as practical mechanics. 
He thought he was right when he said that in 
the Bailway Department and possibly the Public 
Works Department there were natives who had 
worked up from boys and now earned B3 or B4 a 
day which they never would get in the 
olorioal service except under the most fortunate 
and exoeptional ciroamataaoes, His bon, friend 
