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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1510, 7 February 1901, Page 22

The severe illness of Mr Thomas Gale, of Wellington, has assumed a phase that is causing anxiety to his many friends. The reports of the outside examiners of the Canterbury Agricultural College students show that in the agricultural department the general knowledge of the whole class was good, and in the practical work the majority of the pupils were able to give satisfactory answers to all questions, and displayed a good general knowledge of farm work. The general chemistry, on the whole, was weak, the agricultural chemistry better, and the practical chemistry, with few exceptions, satisfactory. In natural science the best papers were very good, while a number of students appeared to have made no headway whatever. In veterinary science, the examiner, Mr C. J. Reakes, referred to the excellent grasp of the subject possessed by a proportion of the students. He regretted, however, that some students took absolutely no interest in this important science. The two scholarships of £2O each for first-year students were awarded to Penniket, of Christchurch, with 90.9 marks, and Brown, of Auckland, with 90.4 marks. Students are now being enrolled for this year, the lectures commencing on March 11th.