A UNIVERSITY EPISODE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11580, 11 May 1903, Page 10

A UNIVERSITY EPISODE.

DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF UNDERGRADUATES. * (SI'ECIA- TO "THE PRESS.") DUNEDIN, May 9. The conduct of several younger members at the annual meeting of the University Students' Association last evening was disgraceful in the extreme. In tlie earlier pan of the meeting the youths amused themselves by throwing pieces of bread and scones at all and sundiy, the president himself not being exempted. The noise and interruption during the reading of the annual report was of such a nature that tlie delegates from the ladies' faculty rose in a body and left. The president had extreme difficulty in maintaining any semblance of order at all during the election of officers, and several times requested two members to refrain from smoking. His request was not acceded to by one member, and this one was asked by the president to leave the room. Instead "of obeying the ruling of the chair, the youth impertinently questioned the president and asked on what authority did he rule that smoking should not be allowed. By the time the motions relative to an alteration in the constitution came on for discussion, the disturbing element got completely out of hand, and at last left the room" shouting and yelling. Tlie doors were then locked from the outside by these bright youths, who irroeeeded to keep up an incessant knocking and slwutiug outside. Subsequently they turned off the gas at the meter, and "several seniors were obliged to climb out through the windows and carry tho war into the enemy's camp.

route, and these had their places duly booked at "The Blossoms," so a Mr Cole was picked up at the Ekphont, and the journey speedily resumed. The Blues kept to the" old road, by way of Clapham, Mitcham, Sutton, and Reigate, whereas the Royal Mail and some others affected the newer route and easier gradients, through Croydon and Redhill.

negotiated, at a good premium by the bankers, at the old house of Rosenthals, who still do largely in finance, in aluiwt the same situation "as at. the beginning of the century. The Amsterdam detectives, to whom he brought credentials, were slow hi methods, had, in fact, noticed no suspicious strangers, and could give no clue whatever. Where had his prey gone? Certainly not- to Paris, for Wellesley and Napoleon were at it hammer and tongs in the Peninsula, and the very day before he sailed both Houses had given a vote of t-kanks to Wellesley and his army, for tlie siege operations' and gallant capture of Ciudad Rodrigo. So he would try Geneva, then a comparatively free and cosmopolitan city, notwithstanding the French Protectorate that galled the Swiss, light as the yoke was intended to be. He travelled "via Basle. Berne, and Lausanne, taking boat at Ouchy for his destination; but when he got to Geneva, not the slightest trace could be gained—he was on the wrong track. Thinking Milan might prove a better planting ground, he attached himself as a servant to a, Genevese merchant about to crofs by the newly-opened Simplon route into Italy. But at Donio d'Ossilla the gravest suspicions were awakened at the French posts, and when they reached Arona, foot of Lake Maggiore, he came to a dead halt, and only got away by subterfuge, after three weeks delay". Again he was on the wrong scent, Milan was wort-lees, and he dared not make for Genoa, as some of the French fleet had escaped from Toulon, and were so harassing our merchant shipping that he might run a good chance of capture at that place