CORRESPONDENCE

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 5009, 9 March 1877, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

UN IVEES ITT OF NEW ZEALAND. ■ TO THE EDITOR 01 THE ITTIKLIOH TIMES. ■ Sir, —Why does the University New Zeaiui I require so much bom candidates (or a Pua H Decree ? At usford wad Cambridge, a candi-ioa ■ offering himself for examination ia classics is za H required to bring up any hut elementary maihe- H mathioa, and tries re rsu. ■ It will probably be said that in these Erclsi ■ Universities the three years* residence is some ret* H off against the easier examinations; still 1 venmrs ■ to say that the New Zealand requirements i-:» H Pass are excessive, and that a man might ret i* H unworthy of an ordinary degree if he showed a;r> H ficlency in sither classics or mathematics.—! am, t-'- H March?. OXu.NIENhii, ■ THE SHOOTING SEASON. ■ TO THE EDITOR OF THE LYTTELTON TIKES. H Sir,—Will you kindly give me space in H columns to offer a few re marts in reference tc \zt decision come to by the Acclimatisation society, n not only deferring the shooting season, in; ihcrtc:mg it by one month ? 1 have no doubt tut i muiy, like myself, very much regret tee n—u taken by the Society, as 1 think it is ca.curstec creates good many more enemies to ibe sccritj than it bos already. In fact, 1 have only heart -re opinion expressed, and that is against the tion carried. 1 hare been in the habit o! ib.v—c in Canterbury for the last 25 yean, and. dcr.t c — : time, 1 have very rarely seen oucks so yc—» jj -- 5 to be able to fly at the beginning of April. f a noted fact that the duett have been uy-sc in packs for the lost month, which is a sire ?'■*- ; their having Jelt off breeding. Tberef.re, i ’ to be hoped that Mr Holies ton wh. sent to the alteration as retommenitd. - ■*' Have the mouth* died npon by law ate the ;.rc; < r months for shooting, and the memt-ers -• Acclimatisation Society have no right to intent with the law as mode by those who were electee the people to moke them, in fact, it sc-c-s the society are crying all they know to mete -« come Laws as stringent as they are in i-i-cr—-and if the public do not put a scop to it, they <e-. soon will, a* the remarks mode by the fully prove, when he said he should not the public, a* the society had received very support I should like to know where n-.-ur..-_,_ the money came bom that has been .-yen; -i_- ( Society it it did not come from the P-’-.io voted by the l*Toviacial Council. Ana—cr tbiukit waa a great mistake last year to fifty shiUmgs tor a license to shoot pheasa-'-*^.-, this reason .—There are a g>*>t many ~ u will not pay s itnach, bat shoot is mar.v : r y' those who do pay, and evade the law ty leave from the landowners to shoot over .V anu iau«e w.u do pay tor a license want for their money after paying so much, or -i more of a be kin ess than pleasure, as the; would do.—l am, he,, Kaiapoi, March 7. STO>