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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1847, 31 July 1907, Page 39

Mr Morrell, rector of the Dunedin Boys’ High School, speaking at the citizens’ farewell to Mr Colin Macdonald Gi-lray, Rhodes scholar, said the University College at Oxford, to which Mr Gil ray was going, claimed to have 'been founded by King Alfred about 1100 years ago, and was certainly one of the most distinguished colleges in that great centre of learning. The social life at Oxford was. made special import.ance of as an education in a narrower sense. In his own college at Oxford he had met, dh addition to Englishmen, Scotsmen, and Irishmen, Americans, colonials, men from the West Indies, Germans, French, Hindoos, Parsees, Persians, and a Siamese prince. To be brought into contact with so many men of different’nationalities and creeds was .of the utmost value to a young man, especially to a young man with a chance of entering public life. There is a number, of early lambs iu the Ghertsey district, says the “Lyttelton Times,” and the fine weather experienced of late has been acceptable, although too dry for the farmers. Farmers throughout the district are beginning to feel the effects of . the dry weather, and the'heavy frosts are playing havoc with the feed. Lambs are •fairly numerous in the Ashburton county., .. The Government of New South Wales has decided to establish a College of Veterinary Science and a Bacteriological In■stitute, and has a sum of £IOO,OOO available fox the purpose.