CHRISTCHURCH.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1697, 27 July 1875, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH.

[Per Press Telegram Agency.] This day. University Examinations. No Auckland boys have passed as undergraduates of first year. K. M. Edgar, Auckland ;; James Baultain, Auckland; M. A. King, Auckland ; A. LeFilliatre, Auckland ; E. G. B. Mess, Auckland ; E. S. Power, Auckland ; It. S. Heed, Auckland, and W. St. Clair Tisdall, all failed. R. H. Eattray, Auckland, failed as an undergraduate of the second year. The Mayor Elected by Ratepayers. At the City Council last night, a telegram was read from the Hon. Mr Richardson, M.H.R. for Christebur-ch, asking if the Council desired any alteration in the Municipal Corporations Act, with reference to the election of a mayor, and the Council passed a resolution favorable to the Mayor being elected by the ratepayers from the members of the City Council. This does not however go far enough, as the general feeling is that the Mayor should be elected by the ratepayers from persons either inside or outside of the Council. The New Bankruptcy Bill. The Lyttelton "Times" cays the leading features of the Bankruptcy Bill are as follows: "Any two creditors to have the power of calling a meeting of creditors appointing a trustee and making an insolvent bankrupt, no one otherwise to have power of becoming a bankrupt; a meeting of creditors to have power to call for persons and papers, and examine on oath all property acquired subsequent to the issue of a certificate to be liable to 20s. in the £. Land SalesLand sales continue good, averaging about £4000 a week, which is double the Provincial Secretary's estimate.