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Evening Star, Issue 11658, 19 September 1901, Page 4

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Mr Kirkpa'rick, station-master at Granity (West Coast) has been promoted to the Pukeuri station in Otago. Arabi Pasha has left Ceylon on his voyage for Egypt. Our special correspondent wires; “ News has been received in Christchurch that Dr A. C. Sandstein, who was born in this city and weW Homo in 1895 to study medicine at the Edinburgh University, has won the Syme surgical fellowship, which carries with it £2OO, and has gained his M.D. degree with honors, which carries with it a gold medal of the value of £lO. This is the highest award which the university can make in this direction, and is only one of a long list of honors which the New Zealander (who is only twenty-five years of ;<£») has secured since he has been in tho Old Comitrv. Sandstein is an ex-pupil of the Christchurch Bovs’ High School ” The friends of Mr George H. Marsden, formerly of this City, but now of Melbourne, will be glad to hear of the welldoing of bis youngest son, Walter, who >s studying at Glasgow University, where be has just passed in surgery, anatomy, forensic medicine, and hygiene, and has received his diploma as a surgeon. Mr Marsden, jnn., intended to sit in October for the finals as doctor of medicine at Edinburgh. ** White at Edinburgh Mr Marsden, along with three other Victorian students, took part in the champion tennis match University v. Scotland, and the colonial quartet just managed to win the championship this year. Each winner becomes entitled to a badge, the possessor of which enjoys certain privileges on Scottish courts.