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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 254, 24 October 1892, Page 4

To-day tbe annual examinations in connection with the Auckland University College wero commenced at the College buildi ,gs, Eden-street, the members of the professorial staff acting as supervisors and examiners. About twenty students who have kept their terms have entered for the examinations Thesubjects embrace Latin, Greek, English, French, Cerman, general history and political economy, constitutional history, pure and applied mi.thematics, physical science, practical physics, practical chemistry, biology, geology, practical geology, and music. The second term of the Univorsity ends on Satruday next, when tbe examinations will be concl.o'ed.

The race-horses Quadrant, Morion, and Marquis of Tewkesbury were shipped south by the Takapuna which left at noon to-day. J. Kae, tho trainer, was also a passenger.

On Saturday afternoon a friendly gam 6 of footbail was played at Onehunga between the emp'oyeesof the tanning firms of Messis .Tagger and Parker and W. Sutherland and Co." Tbe Arch Hill men were much the heavier, but after a tough game science gained the day, Onehunga winning by 32 points to 2. Tho annual agricultural show, promoted by the Waikato Farmers" Association which takes place at Hamilton on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, is creating a good deal of interest in Auckland, and several local firms are sending up exhibits. Messrs Cousins and Atkin, the well-known coach-builders of Elliott-treet, are showing considerable enterprise in this matter. Four buggies are to be sent up to-morrow and they have all been specially built for farmers. They aro also adopted for tbe Waikato country They are all strongly built light buggir-s very useful for travelling long distancee. . Two are doubleseated aqd tbe others are single. Each has a small carrying capacity. Tbe buggies have a handsome appearance, and are "cry oarefnlly finished.

We are promised at the City Hall tonight an entertainment which has a great many features to recommend it. To begin with, it is given with the charitable object of aiding the funds of the Blind Institute ; in the Becond, it is given by a combination of the chief musical talent, professional and amateur, which is in our city at present, and lastly it is under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency the Governor, President of the Blind Institute, Lady Glasgow aud his Worship tho Mayor. But the prime mover in this good and charitable work 13 Mr W. H. Jude. He it is who is responsible for the management of the concert, while the great basso Signor Foli, Miss Rimmer, Mrs Cooper, Mr G. M. Reid, Mr W. Horace Stebbing, Mr Alfred Bartley, and others, are to be thanked for the variety their performances promise to impart to the programme. Mr Jude's interest in the welfare of our Institute for the Blind, although due in most part to a philanthropic desire to aid these unfortunates, arises in some degree from the fact that in early years he was associated with tbe Liverpool institution as a teacher. His desire to help tbem was very practically shown when, on a hint from Mr John Abbott, he offored to give an entertainment and devote the proceeds to the funds of our Blind Institution. Seeing that so many other ladies and gentlemen have interested themselves in the matter there is every reason to believe tbat the concert will be a great success. It only remains for the audience to at once show their appreciation of the nrtistes and their practical charity towards the Blind Institute by being present.