LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1233, 25 January 1905, Page 3

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

By Telegraph,—Frees Association. Auckland, this day, HARBOUE IMPBOVEMENTS The Fmnnce Committa has reported-1< the Harbour Board that tho following tenders for debor.iuros were considered: 2( at par, 2 at 198, and 2 at £95, Tin Committee had resolved—(l) That tin tenders for debentures at par be Receptee and the tenders balow declined, (2) Tim the minimum for the balance of the bond, for £100,009 (first issue of loan of 19C4 foi £400,000) be fixed at par. The Board de oided to obtain the opinion of Messn Ferguson (Wellington) and Hogp (Dunedin on the extensive scheme of harbour im provements recommended by the Board' engineer. THE UNIVERSITY SENATE The Chancellor (Sir Robert Stoul) in his opening speech at the Universii; Senate, referred to the eccleSiust'Cul agita tion for a ohange in the basis of the pri lU:iry system of education. If ut were givei effect to it uiustaffect the University, am perhaps put an end to it as a secular insti tunon. He concluded: "Ail of ut: would deeply regret to m introducer, into the University any subject whicl would oause discord, The managemen leads the sectarian control of tho worlt only." The Chancellor emphasised the importance of having hi»hfy-eduoated teachers from primary scboolssont, to thi universities, and expressed regret thai none of the universities were able to rip point a professor, and said: " Education even with the additional grants to colleges will be still hampered in development Auckland and Wellington are both poorlj endowed on the subject of sohohrsbipa 'They should provide rewards as accessible to those who take tho modern side as I host of the classical Bide." In the highest classes in tho secondary schools historj was inadequately taught, Eeferriog t( technical education, he said that industrioi on which the colony mainly relied were the pastoral, agricultural, and mining, nut oare should De taken that technical eduea tion was not divorced frrom these Indus tries, as for many years the colony would be mainly concerned in the production o raw materials, "The selection for the Rhodes Soholarsbij for 1905 will be made on February 20th Begret was expressed that (ho Nations Scholarships were confined to one class and were not a reward to tho ablest, mos efficient, and most gifted. HURRICANE jAT THE ISLANDS A private oable states that a seven hurricane visited Nine on December 30th There was mucb daniige aahoro. Tbi Auckland schooner Isabel was safe,