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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2046, 25 November 1869, Page 2

At the meeting of the British Asso' ciation, Mr James Hey wood, F.K.S., formerly M. P. for North Lancashire, gave an account of the College for Women at Hitchin, which has been established, and will open in October, it is a college founded for the reception of young ladies who have finished their school education—and, in fact, is to be to them what the Universities are to young men. It is in close relation with Cambridge, which University w;li give certificates tiiat will be in the nature of degrees. Seventeen yqung ladies wi 1 join the college on its opening. They have been subjected to a competitive examination akin to that which is carried on by Oxford and Cambridge on behalf of midd’e-c'ass education, and certainly some of tne questions which w- re to be answered were most rasping in their character. The candidates were all found to be more or less versed in arithmetic, English grammar, Greek, Latin, French and German, in composition, in phyS’cal science, hydrostatics, algebra, chemistry, botany, and music; and Mr Heywood stated that be was astonished to find, on inquiry, how prevalent was knowledge of all these subjects, Greek and Latin especially, ap+ongst young ladies. The coufse of reaL dence will be divided into three terras, and the a Lege being, not a charitable institution, but a women’s university, the college expenses will be LlO5 per annum. From Ne son we learn that although the exci ement which attended the discovery of the gold-bearing re f at Wangapeka has s >mewhat subsided, it b comes every day more certain that the discovery will work a great change in the province of Nelson, and particularly in this portion of it In addition to the reef met with by Culliford and his party, two or three other distinct reefs have since been found in the same district, while Culliford's reef has been traced for nearly three miles beyond the prospector’s claim. Specimens of stone, procured from various spots, although revealing no gold to the eye, yield numerous specks when cru bed, indicating its general auriferous character ; and a though some time must elapse before the reef can be opened, and results arrived at from properly- ouductedcrush mgs, no person who has seen the stone, ank is conversant with the subject, entertains the slightest doubt of its paying quality. .