SATURDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2144, 29 July 1907, Page 4

SATURDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Pross Association.

AUCKLAND, Saturday. Tho ketch Isabella, Dofraino, blown aslioro at Ahipara on Saturday last, is high and dry on tho rocks at low water, with a holo in her hull, Efforts aro being mado to float tho vessel, but success is doubtful. Tho Wftihi returns for July woro £01,320, being tho largest monthly return rocordod, making tho total output £5,840,967. A meeting of tlio Auckland lvowing Association to considor tho suspension of that body by tho Now Zealand Itowing Association, passed a resolution confirming the action ol the local Association in refusing to supply certain information demanded l,y the New Zealand Association, llio motion was not unanimous, a largo number voting against it. . Tho Auckland Eire Board appointihl Messrs David Goldio and B. Kent to attend tho conference at Wellington. The steamer Como, another .South American trader bound for Sydney, called hero to-day to replenish her bun’kore. NK\V PLYMOUTH. Saturday. Tho annual mooting of tho North Island Poultry Association was held last night 1 , Remits from Hastings, Woodville, Now Plymouth, and Mann wntu wero withdrawn or negatived. Exhibitors at Manawatu A. and P. Show woro disqualified. Mr. C. Goodson, of Hawora, was elected president. The Inglowood and Moa Petroleum Companies have everything ready to eommonco boring, and operations vvili start in a few days. BLENHEIM, Saturday. A man named Sam Turner, aged 35, married, a tailor by trade, died suddenly last evening, suffering from hemorrhage on the brain. He took a fit and expired. GREYMOUTH, Saturday. McDonald, who was injured at Runanga last night, died this morn--lU g' ASHBURTON, Saturday. Joseph Ward, one ol the oldest residents, died this morning, aged 92. Ho had been a resident of tho town for 30 years. Ho was the first schoolmaster, lounder of the public library, and filled many public posi tions

DUNEDIN, Saturday,

Fullers have acquired a lease of His Majesty’s Theatre, so that they now control all the theatre properties in this city. . .

Local dealers in ammunition are Forwarding a protest to the Commissioner of Customs against the proposed increase ol duty on sporting cartridges from Is per hundred to 2s (id. They sav the proposed duty wdl amount 'to sixty per cent on the cheaper grades and forty on the best oracles, which rates are practically prohibitive, and will prevent a large number of cartridges being used in rabbit-infested country of Otago and Southland, where shooting is necessary as an auxiliary to poisoning and trapping. Petitioners allege that the Colonial Ammunition Company. of Auckland, will alone benefit by 'the proposed increase of duty, and they object to a monopoly being given to one firm. . The Otago Pharmaceutical Association aro forwarding to the Minister of Customs a protest against the 5 per cent increase in drugs and chemicals, seeing it will affect only 250 chemists. , , , Mary Gibson, nee I'lincher, pleaded guilty to making a false declaration at Christchurch when registering the birth of her child, and was committed for sentence. WELLINGTON, Saturday. Tho Appeal Court yesterday heard tli9 case, E. V. Itiddiford, of Hutt, slieep-farmor, v. tho Ikara District Maori Land Board. The question for the consideration of tlic Court is whether the holding of the leasehold laud is under section 2G of tho Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900, as amended by section 15 of the Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1905, a bar to tho acquisition of further Maori land, or whether those sections refc only to freehold land. Mr. Morison appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Levi for the defendant Board. Mr. Morison contended that as bv section 10 of the Maori Land Settlement Act, 1905, plaintiff was authorised to acquire leases of Maori land up to 5000 acres, and as the lease acquired by him was of some land which he already held, and the lease of which lie had surrendered, plaintiff was entitled to have his lease approved. Judgment was reserved.

A. large safe in Laery and Co.’s fruit market was dynamited during last night, and about £4O stolen. Th 0 place was entered by an upstairs window, which was reached from the roof of an adjoining building. Tho burglars made no attempt to deaden the sound, but did the dynamiting boldly. The explosive caused some damage to the office.

Dr. Starr Jordan, President of the Leland Stanford University, in a memo, to Sir Itobt. Stout, Chancellor of the New Zealand University, makes an interesting suggestion on general university matters. Examination, ho states, should be the function of the professor, and not of the university. Requirements of degrees should be stated in terms of work accomplished, not in terms of examinations required. Tlie Chairman of the Professorial Board should have as many as possible of the functions of the'American university president as far as possible. Certificates of masters of approved secondary schools should be received in place of matriculation examinations. In receiving students a generous range of subjects should bo allowed, and book cramming, especially in science, should be discouraged. I n American experience, the best method of adjusting tlie course is through the “major professor” system, by which the professors in charge of the department become the students’ advisers. The colleges in Neu Zealand should devote themselves primarily to the actual needs of New Zealand. Degrees should not be granted for extra mural study, and in general not for attendance in night lectures or extension lectures. Tnc taxation of university students is a most oppressive form of State taxation. In general the professor, as a teacher, lias far too littlo in initiative in Australasian universities.

Tlio wreck of tho steamer Rangitoto, which sank 'off Jackson Head in 1873, was recently visited by a diver in search of tho cargo of copper plates she was supposed to carry. The steamer was found overgrown with kelp, and her engines were in a ren-arkablo state of preservation, but thickly encrusted with submarine growth. No copper was found, but th; after-hold contained a largo quantity of liquor of various sorts. Some was sampled and found to have improved by submersion, except the brandy. No money was discovered in the strong-room, it having been removed when the vessel was abandoned.