ACCLINATIZATION SOCIETY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 15, 30 May 1868, Page 3

ACCLINATIZATION SOCIETY.

'|ho adjourned gcnornl mooting of tho ftbovo (locloty wun hold in tint Lltorary Tnßtituto at Imlf-piiflfc Bovon o'clock hint ovonlng. Thorowan a largo attendance of membcra, JHin Honor tho Huporlniendout(\V, llollcflton, »E(iq,) occupied tho chair. Tlio election at a Council! for tho omitting ycar.wnii tho flrot bunlnuAH proooodod with. , Mr Wynn Wllllamn explained that a lint of names had been prepared. By thlH courao, it , vraa not meant to imply that tho old Council

had not dono thuir fluty, but It wno the' gorioral. impression that, now blood should bo uifusncl into tho Counoll. In ordor to simplify and frtcllltutc iho mode of election, ho ! would propose that Dr Footer mid Mr Oftrriitliorfl he appointed flcrutlnoot'fl (o collect tfid papore from thoso in tlio room, niid to mako out a total of tho votes | tlioflo having tho highest nnmbor to bodeolared duly oleotod as tlio Oounoil oi! tho eooloty, , Mr Jameson Hocoutlcd tl»6 resolution, On tlio fluffftofltloii of Mi* Nairn, iv lint won road out of tho»ooliglblo for. election. Tho Horutlncorn than proceeded to collect tho papuru, and rotirod from tho mooting, in ordur to mnko out tho rcnult. Mr W, WlllliiniH HiiKKOrttcd that in tho meantime Homo otlior bunhu'HH might bo procoedod with.. At tho hint mooting Mr Feroday h tat cd that ho had certain amendment!! to propoflo upon tho mien. Tho existing rulos did not ailfiwor nil tho purponcH, and It wns noqemiary that they (mould bo amalgamated, and provldo amount otlior thlngo, for tlio election of a council, &o. Hut In ordor to avoid ft dcflultory dlaauflnlon, lio would movo tlio appointment of (V ttub-coinmlttco to draw up jfrcflh rules, and to bo fiubmlud to n Hpcolal Konoral meeting at the oarlioHt poMlbkt momont. Mr Noltldfto nocondod llio motion, After a llttlo convocation, Mr Williams withdrew hlfl motion in ordur to admit of tho following, pi'opoflod by Dr llaa«t \ — "That tho now counoll ho requcnted to fwi'iin now rnloH and regulation for tho bettor advance ment of tho Acclimatization Society, and to lay them liqf.oro the «pooial general mooting at tho earllont tnomout, for approval." Tho motion, on bolng Heeondod, was carried, Mr Jforoflny proponed that tho words " Ohairman" and " Vioi'-Ohnirman" bo inHcrted throughout tho rules whoro tho words •« President" and " Vlce-IMwldcnt" omtr. Tho motion wan Hooondiid by Dr Hiuiat and carried. Dr ITaast informed tho mooting that ho had received a tetter from a celebrated Profcfldor at Munich, iwquGAUug bint to forward information an to how tlio salmon ova had programed in (Hugo. Ho was at liberty to «tato that tho profeuaor would ho willing to ncsiid out to Iho rtoolciy «« many okkh ai they donlred, frto oi! charge, (Applutimi.) Tho Balmon to which ho referred wero to b<i found only in tho lakun in Havaria j but in Iceland, tho oamo fipoulcfi wont out to floa, 110 would ho Rolng to Otivgo In a few An,yn, and would bo in a position to forward tho profonsor tho information ho had written for, Mr i\ It. Dlaklflton adlwl attention to the fact that tho nnmo of Mr ltobert Wllkln liad bcon omitted from tlio Hot of momburn. At fleet ho euppoticd that this wan to ho attrlbitted to an aveov in compilation, but he had wince raanon to bollovo that tho «übnerlptlon had not boon paid. Mr Wllkln was a gentleman who lmd always ovinood a groat interest In iho operations of tho nncloty, and it would bo v complltmnt woll deflcrvod If howoro elected an honorary mCmbdr, On loolcln^ down tho Hot tho mooting would <ko tho namo of another pontlomnn (ho mount Mr Wm, Hlalop) who had mado oontrihuiinno to tho society to an amount hotweon XI OO and MOO,M OrttlimUod hy gcntlomon capablo of giving an opinion. 110 would propoH«, tlioroforo, that Momim Hobort WlU<lu and William Ilifllop booleotcd honorary mambars. J)r ilaniit neconded tho motion, which waH carried, thoro hoinß only a Binglo dlflnontiont, After Homo delay, tho norntlncora rctiirnod, and handed in tho following »» tho rcmiU of tho voting .•— Ohairman— M. Htoddurt, 15«q,, ii votou. VloO'Chnirman— o. 0. Bo won, Rnq ( , iti ) and i)r Hnnnt, 41< Connoil— Mossru NottidKO, 40 » Foroday, 411 i Dr Barker, U > Wynn Williams, 45 j 0. It. Blaklflton, U | 11, Prlnfl, 4\ iJ, 0, 1J0yn, 42 j W. I). Carrutliern, 42 j 11, U, Johiißtono, 42 > Hoy 0. IVftflor, 41 j 8. Boaloy. 40 jW. Hoblnflon, 40 i 1\ Ilanmor, 30 | J. T. Peacock, 38 j W, Wilflon, 27 1 J, Hawdon. 28. T rensuror -a, Gould, -JO, Bccro^ry, l)r Powolli 40. Mr NoUldgo propoft6<l, ftnd Mr Brooko floc/mdod, a voto of UiflMKfl to tlio rotirin/? council, whioh wnH carried, A voto of thnnlcH to tho Chuirman was carried, and tho meeting broko up. [Tho balancC'Hhoot of tho society, from lßt May. 1807, to 30th April, 1808, she WHrccclptH to iho amount of £780 18s 1 id, and dia* bur«omcntf) to an amount which Icavofl a bahinooln hand of £\ibl)nM, Slnco la»t meeting X.19 IBu ad han boon oollocUxl, luordnitlng tho balanco in hand to £180 m 9d.]