The Globe. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1877.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1046, 3 November 1877, Page 2

The Globe. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1877.

We are glad to find that the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College have resolved that more care should be taken of the valuable books in the Reference Library for the future than has hitherto been the case. At yesterday’s meeting a report was brought up and adopted which will result, we hope, in the exclusion of a lot of noisy boys from that department, whose presence there could be of no benefit to themselves, but was a source of great annoyance fo the genuine students. The following a;’e the regulations ; TI e Reference Library will be opened at 10 a.rn. and Alofled at 9 p.m. Ho person will be admitted to tlm Reference Library until he has signed an agreement to .conform to the regulations made by the Board of Governors for the use of the Library, and obtained an order of admission either from a governor or from the person for the time being in charge of the Library. That any governor may pofc eyder el adaption t» »toad good tot

any period not exceeding one year. That the librarian, or person for the time being in charge of the Library, may at his discretion issue an order for admission for any single occasion to any person who has signed the agreement above referred to. Every boob taken from a shelf must be returned to the place from which it was taken. No book is on any account to be taken out of the Roforen e Library, excepting as to the books of the Philosophical Institute by such persons as have the authority of the institute. Writing in, or upon, marking, mutilating, or otherwise injuring any book, is prohibited, and if a book shall be written in or otherwise damaged the person in whose hands the book was at the time may be required to pay the value of the book or to replace it at the discretion of the governing body. Talking in the Reference Library is strictly prohibited. That the room of the Reference Library be not used for any other purpose than that of reference to the books. Rules with reference to the management of the reading-room were also passed, which will have the effect of giving those in charge power to exclude any one infringing the rules or interfering with the comfort of other visitors, and the Registrar is now empowered to take any proceedings that may be necessary in the Law Courts against persons who infringe the Library regulations.

Canterbury has the reputation of being the largest and wealthiest agricultural district in the colony, and the Board of G-overnors of the Canterbury College are determined that she shall still further add to her fame in this direction. The agricultural committee brought up a report yesterday recommending that a manager for the Model Farm be appointed before the close of the present year, at a salary of £6OO per annum, and that advertisements for a competent manager who has had experience in farming in the Middle Island be inserted in the principal newspapers. When the farm buildings are completed, he is to have a house free, and the privilege of taking not more than twenty students as boarders at £SO each per annum. Competative designs are to be invited for homestead buildings, and their cost is limited to £6OOO. When the buildings are erected, and the Model Farm, recently purchased, in full working order, Canterbury will possess an institution which will attract students from all parts of the colonies, and greatly add to the fame which she already enjoys as an agricultural district.

While the Timaru breakwater scheme remains, from various causes, in abeyance, the people of Temuka and G-eraldiue are actively promoting the Milford harbor. A Bill has been introduced into Parliament to create a Board and endow it with a landed estate. As our readers are aware, this matter has been prominently before the public of Canterbury during the last year or two. As a matter of course much jealousy exists between Timaru and Temuka regarding this subject. As there is, apparently, no prospect of the £IOO,OOO voted under the Timaru Harbor Act being expended successfully on a breakwater at Timaru, the promoters of the Milford scheme say, let the two schemes be submitted to competent authorities, and the best one adopted, and the money profitably spent. Timaru people object to this, and maintain that the money was specifically voted for a breakwater at Timaru and nothing else, and that it would be most unjust to deprive the town of the benefit of its expenditure, merely because the Harbor Board cannot agree on a proper plan. We are not sanguine of seeing either scheme put into operation for an indefinite period, nor do we think the course of business will be greatly affected by the prospect of the completion of harbor works in either place. The Timaru people have got £IOO,OOO, and cannot agree on a plan of expending it; the inhabitants of Temuka have got a scheme but no money, and their relative positions are not likely to be altered for some time to come.