AUCKLAND NEWS NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2120, 11 October 1894, Page 14

AUCKLAND NEWS NOTES.

(From Ova, Own Cobbbspondbnt.) Auckland, October 2. UNIVERSITf ENDOWMENTS.

At a special meeting of the council of the Auckland University College the proposed Harbour and Education Reserves Bill was discussed. Mr Udy took exception to clause 15, as he considered one-third of the revenue derivable from reserves would be taken away. Ho took it the intention of the bill was to remove from the control of the college 30,000 acres of reserve*, Mr Peacock said if there were any hidden object in the bill it was to throw into one common fund the ~ whale university endowments of the colony. Auckland was one tif the poorly endowed portions of the colony, and they would benefit. Me B&ume said ho Would be loth to deprive any other university of the endowments they possessed . It would not be right on their part to assent in taking away endowments fjfom. other centres. He looked upon it at a matter of common honesty. It was agreed to write to Sir M. O'Rorke for information relative to the bill.

BRITISH AND FOKEIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

By the Mararoa there arrived the Rev. R. B. Dewolf, M.A., late ticar of St. Mary's, Sheffield, England, who has come to the colony on a visib as a special commissioner for the British atad Foreign Bible Society. He intends to proceed with the investigations comprised in this commission, in process of which he will visib the 14 centres of the Bible Society's work in New Zealand, devoting special attention to the large centres of population. On his return to England in January next he will make a general report to the parent society. He proceeds to Dunedin and will visit tbe southern lakes, torn) sudely's tour.

Lord Sudely is at present in Auckland. Ho is a member of the English Parramatta syndicate which has interests in the Western Australian goldfields, and has, it is stated, " done well." He leaves for the Lake country, going overland to Napier. Lord Sudely ii one of the executors of the estate of the late Hon. Algernon Tollemache, of this colony, who was an unsle of Lady Sudely and had considerable property in the North Island. It is on this account that he is paying a visit to tins colony. He proceeds through the colony and goes on to Tasmania, with the view of inspecting the mining districts, then to Melbourne, and thence Home. Lord Sudely left England in February last and spent two months in the Malay Peninsula, being at Pahang during the outbreak there. His Lordship has recently visited Cool* gtvrdie. His knowledge of mining has been confined to the lead industry of Wales and to the tin fclluVUl fields of the Malay Peninsula at; Perak and S&langor, and the various goldfields of Fah&ng>

COOLOARDIE. • Speaking modestly as an amateur, and nob .professing to be an expert, Lord Sudely thus gives his impressions of the Ccolgardie field :— " I may be mistaken, but I do not believe that: any amateur, or indeed any expert, can go on to the goldfields and see the auriferous nature of the country, and the indications of such & continuous character as are shown in the splendid lodes, without being convinced of the permanenoe of the field and of the immense fortunes Which are contained in many reefs throughout the field. Where in the world have goldfields ever been discovered extending over hundreds of square miles, and with riches reckoned in so many mines by so many ounces to the ton, and not confined to merely exceptional cases, but apparently spread broadcast over this great area P It seems to me, speaking as an amateur, and not as an expert, that when the solution of the difficulty of treating the ore is found, Coolgardie has a splendid future. I am certain that Western Australia has the pioapecb of becoming tho greatest of the gold produoing Countries of the world, and bids fair to help most materially in correcting that great; appreciation of the precious metal which all finaacial authorities acknowledge is the great: cause of the present commeroial depression throughout the World.'* ,

Two men were fined 10s and costs at Autsk* land on the 3rd for a breash of the Factory Acfe by not giving a holiday to their employees, one being a Chinaman. The inspector said he was frequently twitted about not being able to catch Chinamen, people remarking that Chinese dealers did as they liked.