THE UNIVERSITY TOURNAMENT.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12478, 14 April 1906, Page 11

THE UNIVERSITY TOURNAMENT.

■I Tho New Zealand University Tournament open* to-day with the Mayoral reception U 9.30 a.m. in th© Alexandra. Ball. 'mc Tournament, which is the fifth to be held, promises to be most interesting, as a large number of students from the other centres of New Zealand i will be present. Yesterday forty-three ' Victoria College students arrived by the Rotomahana, and were conveyed to the respective homes prepared for them by motor 'bua. Unfortunately the AuckI land students, who wore to have arrived hy the same boat, missed the train at ' New Plymouth, and consequently will not arrive till this morning. _ The , Mayoral reception this morning will be followed up by the tennis contest at the I Cranmer tennis courts at 10 a.m., and in , the evening the debating contest will Ibe held in Canterbury College Hall at j 7.30 p.m. On Sunday afternoon there will be a service, organised by the Canterbury College Christian Union, in Christ's College Chapel, at 3 p.m. The ' service will be conducted by the Rev. jC. W. Garrington, and all students and their friends are heartily invited. On Monday the athletic events will be run off at Lancaster Park, and in the evening there will be a ball at Canterbury College in honour of the visitors. Tho Tournament will conclude on Tuesday morning with the finals, and the tennis championships. In tho afternoon Professor Blunt will give a garden party for the contenting teams, and the festivities will terminate with a river picnic to Wainoni in the evening. The subject chosen for the debate is "That Nelson contributed moTo than Wellington to the overthrow of Napoleon." .There will be two debate*. In the first the Otago University represented, by Meters B. E. Murphy and L. T. Burnard, will take tJjo a&rmative, and Canterbury College, represented by Messrs J. W. Mollraath and 0. F. D. Cook, the negative. In the second debate, Victoria College (Wellington), represented by Messrs E. J. Fiitzgibbon and F. P. Kelly, takes the affirmative, and Auckland University College, represented by Messrs J. Stanton and M. H. Hampeoo, the negative. The time limit is fifteen minutes each speaker.