AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 889, 15 March 1889, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, March 7.

The University Senate yesterday received the report of the Finance Committee, which diowtd a credit balance upon the income and expenditure account of £l2O, whilst the balauce to credit on the general account on Ist January last was £2899 17s 6d, and the credit surplus in scholarship account £157. It was resolved that ten junior scholarships of the value of £4O annually, and six senior scholarships of the value of £6O be offered for competition in 1889. On the reoommendati n of the Committee on the medical course ami the Gilchrist scholarships, the following candidates were declared to have passed First professional examination—A. Hendry, E. J. Roberts, J. A. Newell, W. Batim nt, If. H. Hogg, J. I orrance, J. F. Menzies. Second professional examination -G. K. Fooks, VV. H. Chappie, P. If. Cook, W. riislop, W. J. Mulliu, J. H. Reid. Third psofessional examination, witli degrees ot Al. 14.—G. A. Copeland, H. C. Barclay, W. T. Dinner. A _ request in the petitim fiom medical students that there be two medical examinations each year was decline.l. A second request of the petition that toe preliminary medical examination of Otago Univercity be recognised as entitling to registration for.the New Zealand degree was also declined. R. B. Williams,- of Yale University, U.S., applied to be admitted to the ad eundem degree of B. A. The question of admission to the ad euudem degree of graduates from foreign and colonial uni versifies not being included in the statutes, the application was remitted to the following committee for consideration during the recess :—The Chairman, the Vice-Chancellor/ Archbibhop Redwood, R;v W. J. Habeas, and JJr McGregor. It was ordered that the regulations lor the course of dentistry remain for the present as printed in the calendar. The Melanesian Mission having unexpectedly received £SOOO, propose busldiug a new steamer- to take the place of the Southern Cross.

Seven Auckland contractors had prepared tenders for the erection of the new Courthouse at Onehunga, but, on learning that they must goto Wellington with their deposits, declined to lodge them. They allege they would certainly be kept out of. the money for six weeks. Another grievance is that Wellington timbor was specified /or in nearly the whole, of the work, placing Auckland tenderers at a disadvantage and increasing the cost of the work by 20 per oent.

Mr D. T. Arnott, of the Irish Times, now here, has no intention of reporting on the state of colonial feeling in regard to Home Rule in Ireland. He is solely on a pleasure visit, and goes South to day to see the harvest operations, returning to Auckland lat r. -'

At the Assessment Court yesterday, the Town Clerk drew the attention of the Court to the frequent discrepancies of statements of owners and oceupiers as to tents paid, the latter invariably stating that they were paying higher rents than the landlords averred to be receiving, and that a tenant could have no object in stating hi.- 1 rental at more than he was paying. The Court admitted the disci e_ auciea," but no action was taken.

Bishop Selwyn has just received a legacy of between £50,000 auc £60,000.

The final competition for selection of re pre-eutatives at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Ride Association in connection with the A Battery took place yesterday, when the following proved winners : Sergeants Doughty and Hendeiaon and Gunners Taylor and Lumsden. Nominations lii respect of the Licensing Committee for Archhill, the district in which a number of alleged faggot votes have been sought to be placed upon the roll, were received to-day, when the temperance and moderate parties each proposed five candi dates.

A private meeting of creditors of D. H. McKenzie was hold to-day, when reference was made in strong terms to the manner in which the trustees had administered the estate. It was stated that the assets had been valued at £BBI7 10s but when realised had dwindled to £4887 ISs lOd. These were charged with certain payments amounting to under £IOOO, and the total assets remaining for the creditors amounted to £265, the liquidation expenses being set down at £928 19s lid, whilst the trustees’ commission was £S6O 3s 6d.

The dispute betweeu the head office of the New Zealand Seamen’s Union an 1 the Auck. land branch has been amicably settled, Mr Ellison, the secretary appointed by the Auckland branch, having decided to retire from his position voluntarily to prevent a continuance of the disputes. He therefore gave up his office on Thursday last, audit is now occupied by Air Duthie, the secretary appointed by the head office at Dunedin. The charge against eight Chinese market gardeners of wounding two cows, the property of a settler at Kingsland, was heard today at the Police Court aud dismissed. The University Senate agreed to recommend an addition to the statute of'acade. mical dress, prescribing the necessary costume for B. Sc. and.M.B. The resignation of Dr W. Brown as a member of the Dentistry Board was received. Auckland, MarchS, D. Goldie, chairman of the Aucklanl South Licensing Committee, stated at the quarterly meeting to day that the various city committees had arranged to have reports on the publichouses supplied from an outside source for the next quarterly meetings, ai d breaches of the law would be punished by the committee cancelling the license or ousting the licensee. A fire broke out last night in the shop of Mr Jones, saddler, Queen slreet, but was quenched before much damage was done. It originated in a drawer where soma composition of an inflammable nature was found. A similar fire occurred in the same place two months ago, and was attributed to spontaneous combustion. The police took the drawer to examine the contents. The stock is insured for £3500 in he Norwich Union office, and the machinery and fixtures for £260 in the South British office. At the quarterly meeting of the Waikato

Archidiiconal Conference held to-day at Ti Aroha, the Y T eu. Archdeacon' Willis mentioned existiug marriage Inns, aud dwelt at some leugtli upon their attendant evil. Ultimately it was agreed—“ That more public notice should be g veu of intended marriages than the present law provides, and that this Conference suggests that the marriage laws he altered, so that the names of persons intending marriage be published in the news, papers of the district in which they reside.” This resolution will be laid before the Angli. can Dioee-an Synod at its next meeting. A resolution was passed at a public teem, ing to-night approving the site -at Coxs Cceek tor thepurposeof a public cemetery. It is lelt that the present burial place, which is at Waikomiti, 14 miles from the city, jB too distant. _ '

The University Senate to day adopted the following leportnf the Committee appointed to consider the question of the encouragement of agricultural science in the public schools, as recommended by Professor Thomas :—“ The Committee are of opiniou that valuable knowledge of the rudiments of agricultural science can be imparted iu the primary schools if the teachers are properly instruo ed. Encouragement would be given to study by including in the standard regulations a syllabus for agri .-ulture instead of the mere mention of agrioulturalchemistry. Asau equivale t for the present syllabus of elementary science, further encouragement might be given by allowing candidates for teachers' certificates to take an examination in agricultural knowledge instead of the present examination in what is known as elementary science. Ic would be well for the Education Department to give publicity to the fact that for the purpose of teachers classification the B Sc. degree has the same weight as the B. A. degibe. The Committee recommend that a B.Sc. or B.A. whose course has iucluded certain subjects (which would have to be hereafter defined), or who submits to a further examination in such of these subjects as he has not already taken, should receive a certificate of theoretical agricultural knowledge. The Committee further recommend that if either of the colleges establish such a non graduate course in agriculture as the Senate cun approve of, arrangements could be made for the issue of certificates of such knowledge after-examination.” No change was recommended iu the University statutes iu respect of a musical course. Owing to the disturbed state of the Uiiwera Natives, in consequence of tfce demonstiatiou against To Kooti, Messrs Kelly, Taylor,.and. Grace have returned without having succeeded in making arrangements for gold prospecting iu the. Uriwera country. Messrs D. Goldie, J. Al. Lennox, and S. Luke weie elected members of the Board of Education to-day, the defeated candidates being Professor lhomasand Mr Blades. Auckland, Al arch 9.

A destructive fire took place at Cambridge this morning. It was first discovered at 4 o’clock in Bates’ saddlery shop, Duke-street. It spread rapidly in both directions, completely gutting the right hand side from and including Ward’s chemist shop to Bucklaud's hoi>e bazaar. The following business places were destroyed :—Bates, saddler; tiiley, tailor; Keesing, unoccupied ; Sargent, jeweller ; Kiucaid’s store; Golder, watchmaker-; Bond, stationer ; Pearce, fruiterer ; McNish, billiard.saloon ; Cox, grocer ; Neal, seedsman ; Ruge, hairdresse ; the office of the late Mr F. A. Whitaker, Buekland’s horse bazaar, and several private dwellings in rear of the block. The loss is very heavy. The Masonic Hotel was scorched, but saved. - - March 11. A bush fire is raging in the Pukekohe district. It is feared that much damage will resuit. The house of Robert Ludlow’, a settle-, two miles from the village, was destroyed by the flames on Saturday. The insurance is £SO in the Imperial office. The material found iu the drawer of Jones’ saddlery shop, Queen street, where a fire took place last week, proves to be patent fire kindhre. The police believe the fire was the work of an incendiary, who obtained entrance by the back door, which was found unbolted. The fire kiudlers were not used by Jones, and are believed to have been introduced by the incendiary, who was evidently acquainted with the premises. Air Justice Gillies, in opening the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court this morning, said the calendar was very light. Twenty persons were charged with 15 offences. The charges, however, were serious, including one each of murder, wounding aud indecent assault, two of arton, three ot horse or cattle Stealing, five of forgery or utteriug valueless cheques, and two breaking aud entering. Alex. Chapman, for 60 years a resident at Hokianga, died suddenly, aged SS. Many of the buildings destroyed at the Cambridge fire were uninsured. TheNewZialaud office had a rhk of £4OO on three of Cox’s buildings ; the National £250 on a portion of tne block ; the Norwich Union £2 0 on Bond’s printing office, and £SO on another property ; and the Victoria £3OO on Sergeant’s. Later. 'The total loss iu the Cambridge fire is £IO,OOO, It would have been much heavier but for the exertions of the crowd, who saved the stocks with the exception of Bates’ and Ward’s. A iditi mal insuiances—South Brftish office, £SOO ; Northern, £3OO ; Equitable, £IOO ; Standard, £l5O. The Colonial Sugar Company at Auckland have advanced the price of their sugars 10s all round. - ■ Admiral Fairfax has left in H.M.S. Raven on a visit to Waiwera. In excavating beneath a store in Victoriastreet, Hamilton, to-day, the workmen discovered the skeletons of three Natives in a good state of preservation. A cable message from London announces that Air David Hearn, Inspector of the National Bank of New Zealand, is dangerously ill there. -