INSTITUTE OF CIVIL ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1381, 10 May 1881, Page 2

INSTITUTE OF CIVIL ENGINEERS A ND S URVEYORS.

A meeting of the members of the proposed institute was held at Gwynne's Hamilton Hotel, on Satin day aiternoou, the following beiug represented : Messis John Gwynnetlj, C.E., TV. C. Breakell, J, Simms, W. A. Graliatn, 4.. B. Stubbing, and 0. M. Creagh. Mr Bieakell was voted to the chair, Mr Gwynneth acting as local se n retary. The minutes of the previous meeting weie read and confirmed. Mr Gwynneth lead correspondence, &c received since the last meeting, including letters from th institutes of Victoria and New South W.iles, wishing success to the pioposed institute, and promising evetv assistance. He stated that the meeting had been specially called with a view to discusss the proposed rules, and to elect a member to represent the distiict at the fiisfc meeting of the Council of the institute. The meeting unanimously elected Mr Gwynneth to represent the district. Sundry alterations in the rules were proposed, the principal being in regard to the title of the Institute, which it was pioposed should be amended to read— " The Institute of Civil Engineers and of Land Surveyors." It wad albo proposed that the two brandies should be kept sepauite, each having its own President, Vice-President, and Council, and that there should be a general Council to manage the Institute, composed of equal numbers (3) from each Branch Council, the President and Vice-Presidents of eacli branch to be members, cr officio, of the General Council, the term of office to be three years. With regard to the admission of Civil Engmecis into the Institute, it was proposed that the qualification be " that the candidate has regularly served and completed his articles with a qualified member of the profession, and shall ha\ c practised his profess/on as Civil Engineer for a term of at least five years." It having been pointed out that should the Council approve of these amendments the rules would require to be amended in accordance with the same, some further suggestions were made, and the meeting shortly after terminated.

An Englishman who went to see an Irish friend kuockpd at, t.ho atieet door, and asked, " Does Mr M/Guire live here ?" "Ho does, son-; but he's dead!" " When did he die ?" "If he had lived till to-morrow," was the response, " he'd have been dead a fortnight." The Glasgow Hn-ul/l cays an announcement is at pre ent going the round of the newspapers,, which, if correct as we conclude it to be, is of some importance to a Lirge section of the community, and should exercise no inconsiderable influence on one of the most difficult points connected with our domestic economy — to wit, the training of our female servants. We see it stated that an old lady named Murray died in Kirkcaldy about twenty years ago, leaving to the care of trusteed a sum of money, which was to accumulate for twenty years, and was then to be expended in establishing a home for the training- of young women as domestic servants. The specified time has 1 now elapsed, and the original legacy j has reached the sum of thirty thousand pounds, which, under judicial management, ous-ht to be amply sufficient for the desired object, or at least for such a commencements as shall {jive it a full and fair trial, and possibly open the way to further eficrtB in the same direction. The trustees named in the old lady's will are both dead, but others will of course be appointed ; and we may be allowed to hope that if wisely administered by people who will give some little time and trouble to the subjpet, this legacy may be thB harbinger of better days both for servants and their employers. A system may speedily be inaugurated which 6hall not alone be confined to the institution in which it takes its rise, but which may flow into wider and yet wider channels, till blessings incalculable may be fcb.6 happy result.