iitippleineni to the “ Tropical Agviculkmst !' 
[November i, i8g6. 
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SCHOOL NEWS. 
Hrr. H. W. Green, late Director of Public In- 
struction and the founder of the Colombo School 
of Agriculture, has been confirmed in the ap- 
pointment, in which he has more than once acted, 
of Assistant Colonial Secretary ; and Mr. Cull, late 
Principal of the Royal College, succeeds him as 
Director of Public Instruction. In spite of Mr. 
Green’s translation to another department, where 
he will have more than enough to occupy his 
time and attention, we doubt not he will main- 
tain his interest in the cause of agricultural 
education in Ceylon, and the success of the school 
with which his name will always be associated. 
Mr. J. S. De Saram is back again in Colombo 
in the capacity of Commissioner of the Court of 
Requests, the duties of which he fulfilled with 
so great satisfaction on a previous occasion. 
Mr. H. D. Juanis, who passed out of the 
school last year, has been appointed Agricul- 
tural Instructor of the unfortunate Walapane 
district, the condition of which the Assistant 
Government Agent of Nuwera Eliya is doing all 
he can to improve. 
Among the subjects discussed at the Agri- 
cultural Improvement Society was the much 
written about “ Need of Technical Education in 
Ceylon,” the subject of a paper read by Mr. W. 
A. de Silva. At the last meeting five new mem- 
bers, unconnected with the school, were elected 
Ml’. Jayasinghe, an old boy of the school, has 
settled down as a sugar-cane planter in the 
Southern Province. He has already xfianted iqj 
100 acres, and intends opening about the same 
extent of land with the object of extending the 
cultivation of the cane. 
Tile final examination for the Seniors, as well 
as the Junior class examination, comes off about 
the loth of the month ; the distribution of prizes 
and certificates will folloAV at the end of the 
month ; and the long Christmas holidays begin 
from tile 1st December, 
