PRESENTATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8669, 11 September 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

PRESENTATIONS.

The presentation- of diplomas to the students of the Auckland University College who were successful at the examinations in .November last, took place in the College Lecture Hull on the '25th August. There was a large attendance, the hall being crowded, and of those present a large proportion were ladies. Sir Maurice O'Korke presided, and the following ladies and gentlemen were also on the platform ; —Miss Edger, M.A., Miss Coleman, 8.A., Professors Brown, Aldis, Pond, and Thomas, Colonel Haultain, and Mr. Bourne (headmaster of the Auckland College and Grammar School.) Addresses were delivered by the chairman and Professor Pond. The chairman, in concluding his address, read the following statements, showing the attainments of t.he graduates who had gained diplomas :— M.A. Degrees : Mr. Frederick J. Carter (junior Grammar School scholarship, 1880 ; senior scholarship, Latin and English, 1S81); second-class honours, 1890) ; Mr. George Lippiatt (second-class honours, chemistry, 1890); Rev. J. T. Note (senior scholarship, zoology, 1889, and second-class honours, 1890); and Miss S. E. Clifford, (junior scholarship, 1880, at the Girls' High School, Dunedin ; senior scholarship in 1889, and second-class honours in 1890, in political science). LL.B. degree; Mr. F. E. Bnume. B.A. degrees : Miss Isabel Eccleslield, ; Miss Jessie Knapp (Nelson), Mr. E. D. Aubin, Mr. D. If. Jackson (junior Grammar School scholarship, 1887, and senior scholarship, chemistry, 1890), and Mr. Richard C. Maclaurin (junior Grammar School scholarship, 1887, and senior scholarship, mathematics, •1890)." With reference to the question of j the medical school, ho wished it to be gene- [ rally known that one year of the curriculum

of medical study could now be taken in, the College, lie also desired to state that of the three students of Experimental Science who. .proceeded ; from the College to Britain, each had there obtained signal distinction. Mr. W. 11. Allisoun Tebbs had gained many scholarships and prizes at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and was now house surgeon in that hospital; Mr. Sinclair Gillies had recently obtained a Science Scholarship ab St. Bartholomew's Hospital; and Mr. T. H. Green, formerly Gillies' scholar here, recently passed the intermediate examination in the University j of London, and was the only student from the .London hospitals who was placed in the first division. The graduates who were present, namely, Messrs. Carter, Lippiatt, Baume, Jackson, and Maclaurin, were presented with their.diplomas, each being congratulated by Sir Maurice, and heartily applauded by the audicnce. The proceedings were most orderly. The ceremony of presenting diplomas gained at the last New Zealand University examination took place ab Dunedin on Friday evening, the 4th September, in the Garrison Hall, which was crammed to the doors. Sir R. : Stout, representing the Chancellor, presided, and presented the diplomas as follow: —M.A. 7, including Miss Gilford, of Auckland ; 8.A., 17, including four ladies; LL.B., 2: M.8., 3. Speeches were delivered by Sir Robert Stout; Mr. J. McGregor, and Rev. Dr. Stevens, who all received a fair hearing. During the anniversary celebration intha Devon port Presbyterian Church on Sept. 1, a ceremony took place which showed the .excellent feeling existing between the congregation and their organist and choirmaster, Mr. J. F. Bennett, and the sympathy felt, for that gentleman during liis recent illness. The Rev. J. Hill, who occupied the chair, called upon Mrs. Card no, on behalf of the ladies of the congregation, to present Mr. Bennett with a purse of sovereigns, and, in doing so, referred in highly eulogistic terms to the services which the recipient had rendered the church. Mrs. Car'J no having presented the purse of sovereigns, Mr. Bennett feelingly acknowledged the gift. Mr. McCarthy, late foreman of thefitting shop, Newmarket railway workshops, has been promoted to the Petone railway workshops (Wellington). Prior to his departure a presentation was made to him by the officers and men of the Newmarket establishment, with i gift of a gold albe.u and locket, bearing an appropriate inscription. The presentation was made on behalf of those-concerned by Mr. H. H. Jackson, locomotive engineer. - Constable Gordon severed his connection with Whangarei, and on August 31 lie transferred to. On' Monday afternoon lie was entertained at a public meeting, and made the recipient of a handsome. testimonial in recognition of the good service he had rendered to the district during the eight years he has been in charge of it. On the full September the whole of the employees of the T. and S. Morrin Com puny (Limited) were called together to make a presentation of a purse of sovereigns to Mr. James .McGregor, on his resignation from the firm after a service of over a quarter of a century. Mr. Henderson, the secretary, made the presentation, which was suitably acknowledged by Mr. McGregor. On , September. 4- a very pleasing incident took place at the warehouse of Messrs. Mucky, Logan, Steen, and Company, when Mr. IT. W. B:itkin, who had resigned his position as town traveller in order to commence business on his own account, was presented witU a large and handsomelyframed photographic shield containing the photographs of the members of the firm and the whole of their employes.