UNIVERSITY COUNCIL.

Evening Star, Issue 10412, 6 September 1897, Page 2

UNIVERSITY COUNCIL.

The regular meeting was held this afternoon ; present—Mr Justice Williams (Chancellor), Mr E. B. Cargill (Vice-Chancellor), Dr Hoeken, Mr J. Allen, M.H.R., Mr D. White, Professor Sale, the Rev. A. Cameron, Dr Burns, and Professor Shand. The Finance Committee reported that the bank balanoe was £746 8a 4d. A schedule of aocounta was passed to the amount of £689 7s lid. The Committee agreed to reply to Mr G. Sutton's request re fenciDg on the University endownment that the Council will pay half cost (£8). The Committee recommended the Council to pasß the requisition for materials for the School of Mines f<r next session. An application for the return of half the college fees by a student who had changed his mind and gone Home after taking, half the medioal session course —he having received back half tho professors' fees—was referred to the Council. It was recommended that a room be placed at the dieposal of Mr Aston, as recommended by Professor Black. The Committee approved of Dr Scott's requisition for a cask of methylated spirits for the School of Medicine.—The report was adopted, and the Council refused the students' application above referred to.

The Committee on Lunacy Fees reported having reconsidered the matter of the amount of the fee to he paid by the students for the course of instruction in lunacy, and reported that they still thought that the fee stated in the last 'University Calendar,' £3 3a, should be the fee, and that the fees should be immediately collected from the students and paid over without further delay.—The report was adopted after the rejection of an amendment by Mr White that the Council pay half the fees and the students half.

The Council went into committee to consider a Bill to define the leasing and selling powers of the Council.—On resuming the Council appointed a small committee to go into the Bill with the Council's solicitor.