LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1568, 26 September 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

j ’ [(Per Press Association.); Christchurch, last night. Sootty was soratohed for the New Zea-

land Cup at 2.60 p.m. to day,

The recent trouble between the Canterbury College students and the Professorial Board was brought up at a meeting of the Board of Governors to-day, when a letter was reoeived from 15 students appealing to the Board from the decision of the Professorial Board lining them £1 each for breaohea of discipline committed last diploma day. The writers claimed that the imposition of any fine exceeding 2s fid was ultra vire*. A motion was adopted upholding the decision of the Professorial Board, and the mover stated that misrepresentation had been caused by a telegram sent through the oolony, and a meaning foreign to the faots had been twisted into the matter. It was not stated in some papers that it was only the academic gowns of the ladies that had been taken from tho lady students’ college and plaoed in another room. At the meeting of tho Board of Governors tbe report of the museum and library oommittco, recommending tbe termination of tbe engagement of tho art master and staff at the school of art and

ho appointment of a director at an annual salary of £SOO, who should choose the stafif, was adopted. The statement for the 21sS week of the New Zealand Utility Poultry Club’s egglaying competition at Lincoln College shows that 945 eggs were laid during the week, making the total to date 11,609, an average of 805.5 per pen. The stand the highest for the week : J. Mann, while wyandottes, 33 ; G. Rollinson, black Orpingtons, 33; G. H. Blair, white wyaodottes, 33 ; Alexandra Poultry Company’s j white Plymouth Rocks, 32. Best totals to da'e am : H. Hirko’s silver wyandottes, 567 ; A. M. Price’s buff Orpingtons, 463; J. Mann’s white wyandottos, 458. New Plymouth, last night. The charge of alleged rape against Rueben While was not concluded when the Court adjournod until to-morrow. Wellington, laßt night. The New Zealand Government has not yet come to any decision regarding General Booth’s proposals. The Cabinet has considered the case of Daniel Swan sentenced to death at Invercargill, but no conclusion has been arrived at.

Greymoutb, last night.

Ab a result of a conference) between representatives of the North Canterbury Timber MerohantB 1 Association and tho West Coast Timber Trading Company it is probable that timber to be used in building the New Zealand International Exhibition will be obtained on the West Coast. It is estimated that fonr million feet will bo required, costing over £20,000.