NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY.

Evening Star, Issue 6842, 4 March 1886, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY.

The annual report of the Chancellor, read at yesterday’s meeting of the Senate, was as follows:

I lay before the Senate the reports received from tho'affiliated Colleges; also a letter received from the Right Rev. the Bishop of Nelson relative to tho dis of Bishopsdale College, and asking for a reconsideration of the Senate’s decision thereon. It will be necessary for the Senate to select authors and periods in Latin, Crook, English, French, Gorman, and probably Italian and history, for tho November examinations, 18S8; also a Latin work or the medical preliminary examination of the same year. The Senate last year omitted to proscribe periods in English and French for the B.A. pass examination of 1887. Provision is necessary for this ; and some change is required, an 1 am informed, in Hie works prescribed by the Senate in French fur 1880 and 1887. I lay before the Senate all letters which have passed during the year between the University office and Mr Carpenter. Amongst these will be found a letter from Professor Ray Lankester on the subject of -appointing University examiners in the Colony instead of in England. Mr John Tinlinc, of Aimin', on leaving, for England last year, made a donation to the University of the sum of LI,OOO for tho purpose of founding a scholarship of the annual value of LOO, tenable by students of the Canterbury College, on the subject “English.” I have conveyed to Mr Tinlinc my thanks, on behalf of the Senate, for his generous gift. Perhaps the Senate may desire to supplement my letter by a formal resolution to tho same effect I lay before the Senate tho correspondence which has taken place on this subject. Tho Senate last year directed me to apply to the Government for the publication of a now edition of Hooker’s “Flora of New Zealand.” I have been informed that the Government cannot at present agree to the request. I was informed by His Excellency the Governor in November last that he hail received a telegram from the Secretary of State for tho Colonies announcing that the Imperial Government proposed to grant commissions in tho Royal Engineers to graduates of the Australian and New Zealand universities .under certain conditions. Tho Colonial Government inserted in the ‘New Zealand Gazette ’ a notice that candidates for such commissions should apply to tho Minister for Education. I understand that one graduate so applied this year, and that ho has been recommended for a commission. Perhaps the Senate would desire some notice inserted in the Calendar as to this matter. I communicated, as directed by the Senate last year, with the universities of Sydney and Melbourne on the subject of tho barriers which prevent colonial graduates in medicine from admission to tiic medical service of the army, navy, and mercantile marine. I lay before the Senate the replies received, from which it will be seen that both of those universities arc ready to co-operate with the Senate in attempting to remove those disabilities. I suggest the appointment of a committee to prepare an address on this subject to tho proper authorities in England. A letter was received from a graduate of this University in Aberdeen re the recognition by the University of that place of the B.A. degree which he had taken in this Colony, as qualifying fur tho Aberdeen M.D. degree. Logic and Greek are optional with us, but compulsory at Aberdeen. In the particular case in point, it was of course open totiie student to have taken those subjects if he had chosen to do so, but perhaps tho Senate might see fit to appoint n committee to investigate the whole question of assimilation between the New Zealand and Home degrees. The accounts and balance-sheets for 1885, duly audited, will ho laid before the Senate. The following is an abstract of the income and ■ expenditure for the year : INCOJIB. Statutory grant last quarter JSB 85 .. £3,7fff 0 0 Fees .. .. .. .. 031) 13 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 388 8 8 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 16 0 Total .. .. .. £1,770 0 8 KXI'KSDIft'IIK Senate •• .. .. .. .C3S7 4 2 Office IG3 0 0 Exuninationa .. .. .. 1330 13 1 Scholarships .. .. .. 1,41(1 1 3 General purposes .. .. .. HO 0 0 Gx'ancc.. .. .. .. 1,021 22 Total ~ .. _ £4,779 0 8 The questions that would claim the attention of the Senate were then referred to, and tho report continued as follows : The following candidates came up for the November examinations :—For the B.A. degree —first section 42, second section 84 ; the LL.B. degree, fi; for the M.A. degree, 2 : for honors, 10; for the L 1,,1), degree, 1; for commotion of tho medical preliminary examination, 8; total, 108. Also one candidate for the second professional examination in medicine; also, four teachers to qualify for a class under tho Eduo ti<n Dcjiaitmnnt. Eight candidates competed for single scholarships. Tho total shows a slight decrease us against hist year, which is probably owing to the abrogation of the “Teachers’ Regulations.” Only those teichers can now como up who have already passed the first section of tho B.A. examination. Tho following came up for the December examination: For matriculation, 250; for juniors cholarsbips, 11; total, 291, an increase of 50 as compared with 1881. Of these;, 18 were candidates in medicine, one in science, and one in music. I was unable to conform to the resolution of the Senate last year, that the Committee on the results of the entrance examination should meet and publish the results to January 2b, as tho papers of candidates were so numerous that some of tho examiners could not complete tiicir work in the specified timn.

The Vice-chancellor brought up the report of the Recess Committee on the results of the preliminary medical and entrance examinations of 1885, and they wore adopted.