TELEGRAPHIC.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 27, 11 June 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

«. . [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [p£B PEESS ASSOCIATION.] Cheistchurch, June 7. The address to the Governor, read by the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Canterbury Collage at the opening ceremonial to-day gave a sketch of the establishment and progress of the College, aurl then wont on to say, " The Board has taken steps to establish a school of agriculture in connection, with a mode) farm, which

it is hoped will be in full operation in a few months. A building for a high i school for girls under the control of the Board is now ia course.of erection, and will shortly be completed, and in I till probability be open iv September next. The Board is now endeavouring to- make arrangements for the «Htnblifihment of a school of mines as a department of the college. At the proaent time there are on the teach" ing staff of the Gollege, four professors and three lecturers, giTing instruction on classics and English, literature, in mathematics and natural philosophy, in chemistry and physics* in geology, ;in modern languages, in biology, in jurisprudence and cognate subjects. The number of students attending the classos this term, is seventy«eight, of these sixteen have matriculated in the University of New Zealand to. which this college is affiliated. The address concluded by expressing gratification at the presence of the Governor thus aiding the good cause of educatiou. His Excellency replied in a very excellent speech, thanking the Board of Governors for the opportunity thus afforded him of associating hianame with the cause of higher education in the colony, and expressing bis conviction that the College when completed would be of infinite service, not only to tho city and districts in which it is situated, but also to the colony as a whole. He combatted the notion that the establishment was premature." It was not alone for tho present but for future they had to provide. Anyone looking to the marvellous progress made during the last twenty-fite years could not but see that so far from being premature institutions of the character of the Canterbury College were a positive necessity. In conclusion he begged heartily to congratulate the city on possessing so excellent an institution, in its midst.