LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 93, 8 June 1877, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Special to the Mail.]

(Per Press Agency.)

Wellington, June 7,

The City Council this afternoon, after a long discussion on the report of the Committee re the dismissal of Corporation officials, they referred the matter back to a committee of the whole Council.

The question of adoption of Climie's drainage scheme was postponed tjll the next meeting ; also the motion re Reclamation of Te Aro.

Dunedin, June 7,

A brick wall at Kirkpatrick's and Glendining's . premises, in Princesstreet, fell this afternoon, carrying away millinery depot and workrooms. Nearly all the girls (about 50) in the place were at dinner when the accident occurred, but of those on the premises only two were badly injured. Several thousand pounds worth of property is destroyed.

Christchurch, June 7

The address to the Governor, read by the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College, at the opening ceremonial to-day, gave a sketch of the establishment and progress of the College, and then went on to say that the Board has taken steps to establish a school of agriculture in connection with a model farm, which it is hoped will be in full operation in a few months. A building for a High school for girls under the control of the Board is now in course of erection. It will shortly be completed, and in all probability be open in September next. The Board is now endeavouring to make arrangements for the establishment of a school of Mines as a department of the College. At the present time there are on the teaching staff of the College four professors and three lecturers giving instructions in Classics and English Literature, in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in Chemistry and Physics, in Geology, in Modern Languages, in Biology, in Jurisprudence and oognate subjects. The number of students attending classes this term is 78, of these 16 have matriculated the university of New Zealand to which this College is affiliated. The address concluded by expressing gratifi- j cation at the presence of the Governor, thus aiding the good cause of education. His Excellency replied in a very eloquent speech, thanking the Board of Governors for the opportunity thus afforded him of associating his name with the cause of higher education in the colony and expressing his conviction that the College when completed, would be of infinite service, not only to the city and district, but-also to the colony as a whole. He combated the notion that to establish such a College was premature. It was

not alone for the present out the futur e that they had to provide. Any one looking to the marvellous progress made during the past twenty-five years could not but see that so far from" being premature, institutions of the character of the Canterbury College were a positive necessity. In conclusion, he begged most heartily to congratulate the city on possessing so excellent an institution in its midst.

[Per Submarine Cable.] THE EUROPEAN WAR. Singapore, 6th June, 2.30. Great difficulty is experienced in supplying the Russian army in Roumania. Circassian insurgents defeated with great loss.