TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 10018, 8 December 1908, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Peb Pkess Association.) WELLINGTON. December 7. The Cabinet to-day authorised votes for a district liigh school and. technical school at Hamilton and for technical school buildings at Cambridge. Other votes passed were: £325 for the West-port Technical School, £ISOO for Maaiawatu River protection works, £350 for a- hospital at Taumaranui, £385 for a school at Waiharara (Auckland), £SOOO for the WellingtonManawatu railway tablet working, £I2OO for fixed signals for the same line, £2OOO for the Wanjganui District High School, £285 for the Otaua School, £ISOO towards the erection of a drill shed 1 at Dunedin, £50,000 was passed for railway construction works, and £40,000 for road votes. At the annual meeting of the Victoria University District Court of Convocation this evening it was resolved that the Senate take into consideration, the advisability of establishing the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in New Zealand, or as an alternative to amend the syllabus for the Doctorate in Literature to include Mental Science; that the present separate examinations for matriculation and junior scholarships be abolished, and one examination of intermediate difficulty submitted for both, and the junior scholarship be awarded competitively on the basis of this examination; that the Senate consider the advisability of raising the standard' of the matriculation examination so that all matriculated students may be qualified to benefit at once by University education, and the minimum ago for matriculation be raised to 17 years; that the Senate consider the advisability of devising some scheme whereby the holders of junior scholarships, and those passing the junior scholarship examination with credit may be enabled to proceed at once to more advanced work than other students. Cabinet decided' to-day to erect the new Government House on the site now occupied by the Mount View Asylum. The asylum is to be removed to some central site in the North Island, to be selected without delay. DUNEDIN. December 7. At a meeting of the University Council to-day Dr P. Marshall was appo'nted Professor of Geology and Mineralogy. The Council decided to recommend to the Senate that Maori be an optional subject for the matriculation examination. AUCKLAND. December 7. A. meeting of the Professorial Board of the Auckland University was held this afternoon for the purpose of selecting this year's candidate for the Rhodes scholar- , ship. There was only one applicant, Mr V. G. Aldridge, whom the Board decided to select. The Auckland representative for the Rbodes honors is the sixth and youngest- son of Mr George Aldridge, of Auckland, who has been for 25 years pastor of the Church of Christ at Newton. Tho young student was born in Auckland, and has not yet attained his majority. He has gained his B.Sc, and has the distinction of being the first to win in one year three senior scholarships since the present regulations came into force in 1883.

The rehearing of the action against the Union Steam Ship Company by the Northern Coal Company for £1946 6s 2d damages as the result of a collision in the Auckland harbor on the night of March 10th last between the defendant company's steamer Wairtma, of 4000 tons gross register, and plaintiff's 86-ton ketch Moonah was opened before Mr Justice Edwards and a special jury this morning. The claim is that the accident, which resulted in the sinking of the Moonah, was occasioned through negligent and improper navigation on the part of the defendant company's servants. Defendants on then part denied the allegation, and submitted that the cause of the accident was the negligence of the plaintiff's servant. The case has not been concluded. George M'Caslin, 69 years of age, a coal and firewod dealer, met with a fatal accident in the new North Road, Kingsland, at 1.40 p.m., to-day. M'Caslin was sitting on the shaft of a. cart, in wliich he was conveying a load of firewood to a customer, when he slipped and fell on to the roadway. As he fell he rolled and the wheel of the cart nassed over his head inflicting a fracture of the skull and a severe scalp wound. The injured man was attended by a doctor, who sent him to the hospital, where he expired at 4 p.m. Captain Bollons, of the Hinemoa, which arrived at Onehunga from Cape Maria on Sunday, reports finding a piece of the deck sparring belonging to the Loch Lomond at Spirits Bay. A piece of the barque's top-gallant bulwarks was also discovered near Scott's Point, eight miles south of Cape Maria Van Diemen. DANNEVIRKE. December 7. The death occurred at 1.30 on Monday morning of Mrs John Speedy, wife of Mr J. Speedy, of Bum View Station, Wainui. Deceased was a very old resident of the colony. She arrived with her father (Mr Bruce) in 1840, and settled in the Hutt. She married and went to live at Wainui before any other white people had been there, over 45 ve;irs ago. She leaves a large family of daughters and three sons, and is survived by her husband, who is 80 years of age, and who is still hale and hearty. The family are well known amongst Hawke's Bay rimholdere, and deceased was highly respected. She will be buried in the private cemetery at Burn View at 2.30 to-morrow. INVER.CARGILL. December 7. At an inquest to-day on the body of William Park, who died as the result of being knocked down by a motor cyclistnamed Cameron, a local dentist, Mr Cruickshank, sitting without a jury, found a verdict of accidental death, adding: "I won't say there is no blame attached to him (Cameron), because I think there is a little blame attached to him." The coroner also added a ridw that motor cycles should always be fitted with brakes on both wheels.