FURTHER PAPERS RELATIVE TO

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which by the 13th section of the New Zealand University Act, the Council is empowered to confer, and, in reply, to inform you that the Government is advised that all persons, howsoever admitted to degrees, are members of the Senate, and have a right to vote therein. The Act provides for " the admission" to degrees without examination ad eundem, and all persons admitted to degrees are members of the Senate. I have, &c, The Chancellor of the New Zealand University, W. Gisborne. Wellington.

No. 14. Mr. H. J. Tanckjed to the Hon. W. Gisborne. Sir, — University of New Zealand, Wellington, 15th April, 1872. I have the honor to enclose several regulations, as per accompanying list, passed by the Council of this University, and request that you will submit them to His Excellency the Governor for his approval. I have &c, Henry John Tancred, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington. Chancellor. i

A.—Regulation. That the powers of the New Zealand University Council in the matter herein under specified, may be exercised until next meeting of the Council by an Executive Committee; such Committee to consist of the Chancellor, the Right Rev. the Bishop of Christchurch, Mr. Rolleston, and Mr. Acland —three to be a quorum. 1. The management of the landed endowments belonging to the University, so far as provision shall not have been made in that behalf. 2. The giving effect to, and bringing into practical operation, all resolutions, statutes, or regulations of the Council. Extracted from Minutes of April, 1872, by J. Rigg.

b B. —Resolution. That this Council, acting on the expressed opinion of the Government that, until the University of New Zealand shall have been established at some given place, "it is open to grave doubt whether as yet the University is capable of exercising its functions in the manner and to the extent which it has purported and proposed to do," hereby do request the Governor to exercise the power conferred upon him by Act of the General Assembly, by establishing the University of New Zealand at Wellington. Extracted from the Minutes of 12th April, 1872, by J. Rigg.

C.—Regulation. That the following Regulation, as approved by the Governor in Council, viz., "That no candidate under sixteen years of age shall be admitted to the examination for a scholarship, and no successful candidate be entitled to hold a scholarship unless he shall enter his name upon the books of some affiliated institution, and attend regularly the course of studies and lectures prescribed by that institution or the Council," be amended as follows :— 1. By substituting the word " fifteen " for " sixteen." 2. By inserting after the words "■ affiliated institution," the words " or matriculated in Otago University." 3. By omitting the words "that institution," and inserting the words " such institution," respectively. Extracted from the Minutes of Meeting of 12th April, 1872, by J. Rigg.

D.—Regulation. That persons who have been admitted to the degree of Bachelor or Doctor of Medicine, Bachelor of Laws, or Bachelor of Music, in any one of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, Dublin, Durham, London, Queen's University of Ireland, Sydney, or Melbourne, may, on producing evidence of the same, satisfactory to the Council, be admitted to the degree of Bachelor or Doctor of Medicine, Bachelor of Laws, or Bachelor of Music, as the case may be, in the New Zealand University, on attaining the standing and fulfilling the conditions, except as to fees, which would entitle them to that degree in their own University. Extracted from Minutes of 12th April, by J. Rigg.