A SCIENCE COLLEGE

Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 8 July 1903, Page 15

A SCIENCE COLLEGE

LONDON, June 29.

Lord Rosebery has propounded a scheme for the establishment of a college of applied science in connection with the London University similar to that existing at Charlottenburg, Germany. The money for the scheme has already been found. The trustees include Lord Rosebery (chairman), the Duke of Devonshire, Mr Arthur Balfour (Prime Minister), Sir Francis- Mowatt (Permanent Secretary of the Treasury), Mr Julius C. Wernher, Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, K.C., M.P., Dr Archibald Robertson (Vice-chancellor of the University), and Sir Arthur W. Rucker (Principal of the University). The cost, .apart from the «ite, will be £300,000. Messrs W,ernlier, Beit, and Co. are large contributors, and gifts have also been received from Lord Strathcona (High Commissioner for Canada), Lord Cashel, and others. The Commissioners of the 1851 Exhibition give a site, valued at £200,000, adjacent to the University Buildings, Kensington. The college will be a school of tho University, working in co-operation with the Central Technical College, the Royal College of Science, and other branches affording facilities for original research. Iv a letter unfolding his scheme Lord Rosebery asked the London County Council to undertake its maintenance, which he estimates at £20 T OOO per annum. Lord Rosebery strongly emphasises the importance of picked students of the Motherland and colonies finding opportunities for acquiring the most advanced education witliin t-ha r Empire. The newspapers recognise the importance of Lord Rosebery's scheme from the standpoint of the training for British mining engineers, metallurgists, and chemists.

The Times states that Messrs Wernber, Beit, and Co. offer £100,000 ately, and a similar amount later, on certain conditions.

As part of the larger scheme embodied in Lord Rosebery's letter, although originating independently, it was decided after a meeting in the Mansion House to perpetuate Sir Henry Bessemer's memory by establishing completely equipped metallurgical teaching and research works in London.

Mr Haldane is authorised to announce the King's approval of the entire scheme, including the memorial.

A court martial was held on board the Royal Arthur at Sydney recently to try an ordinary seaman named Fisk, who was charged with striking a petty officer. After hearing the evidence, the court sentenced the prisoner to 18 months' imprisonment, with hard labour, and at the expiration^ of that term to be dismissed from the servioe, with disgrace.