YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 896, 9 May 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

+ [by subuaiune cable, pub phess agency.] EUROPEAN. The Russians Repulsed at Kars. Singapore, May 7. England has annexed the Transvaal Republic. The Russians Avcre twice repulsed at Kars with heavy loss, and were eompelled to fall back. The British ironclad squadron at Cori'u has been ordered to rendezvous at Crete. AUSTRALIAN. Svdney, May 7. Sailed—Wakatipu. INTERPROVINCIAL. [press ag-ency.] Auckland, May S. The Rotorua, from the South, sailed for Sydney with 39 passengers. Great dissatisfaction is expressed here at the rise in the price of (lour by the millers. Southern, £lB, and superfine Auckland, £22. The Sash and Door Company have called a meeting to increase their capital by the issue of 30,000 shares, nominally of £5. New Plymouth, May 8. The Hon. Major Atkinson, who was waiting for an opportunity to get away to meet his colleagues at Wellington, could not get off to the Stella, owing to the rough sea. He will remain here till the Stella returns. Very stormy weather prevails. The Otago University. [PKOiI A CORRESPONDENT OF THE PRESS.] Dunedin, May 8. The City Council intend petitioning Parliament to revest the wharves reserves in them. The argument come to regarding the Fever Hospital is that the Council pays all costs and undertakes to remove the Hospital at the end of six months. The Taieri Council decides to adhere to tolls. The University Council decline Mr Severn's application for the position of scientific lecturer, he promising to hand over his apparatus if appointed. Mr Macandrew lias brought down several important resolutions for the next University lncetinf. The first asks the Chancellor to (alee the necessary steps for legislation to make Professors fix officio members of council, and for calling for competitive designs for new buildings, to cost £20,000. Motion No. 2 reads "vneral welfare of the country depends much upon diffusing sound learning of the highest class, to which end advancement n connection

with the University of as many scholarships as possible would be greatly conducive. Resolved that £IOOO a-year be set aside out of the funds of the University, towards this object, and that the Professorial Board be requested to indicate its opinions as to the terms and conditions upon which the money can be best applied. . Council desires to express its earnest hope that many of those who have acquired large moans in the country Mill be induced to devote a port ion thereof towards endowments of scholarships in the university. Further, t bat with the view of bringing permanently under the notice of the people of Otago the fact that provision is made within the province,' whereby University education may be acquired by, and is open to all who may avail themselves of such provision, thai copies of the University Calendar, together with such regulations for the acquisition of scbolarships as may be adopted, under foregoing resolutions, be transmitted to individual members of all corporate bodies and school committees throughout Otago."