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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2269, 12 July 1881, Page 3

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[per press association.! AUCKLAND, July 11. The Glorious, Pious, &c, &cThe Orange Society held a commemoration service yesterday in the Choral Hall, which was largely attended. The Rev. Joseph Long, Primitive Methodist, presided, and addresses were given by the Yen. Archdeacon Maunsell and the Rev. L. W. laitt, Wesleyan, The Biodon CaseBindon Brothers’ trial for arson lasted all day. The evidence of the prosecutor only has yet been given. A Conference 1 Major Mair has arrived at Alexandra. Tawhaio will meet him with 300 men, and will visit the Waikato settlement. From Hong-Kong DirectThe steamer Bowen arrived last night from Hong Kong, af’er a pasage of twenty-seven days, with a cargo of tea. The health officers found that she had a clean bill of health from the Hong Kong authorities, there being no disease there when she left, and in reply to a telegram the Government ordered the health officer to admit the steamer to pratique. The news by the Bowen is of little interest. The general verdict re the tea crop is that the loaf is damaged in appearance at least by heavy rains, and although the annual rates are lower than last year, when the inferiority of the leaf, difference of exchange, &c., are considered, they come out nearly 7 per cent, higher than last year. At Canton, 4500 boxes of congou were sold for 15 to 25 taels per picul; scented caper, 50,000 boxes, at 11J to 26 taels per picul; scented orange pekoe, 7600 boxes, at 13 to 24 taels per picul. The first muster of Honkow and Einiang teas was offered on the 16th May. The market opened at 31 to 32 taels for Ninloohow and 28 25 per pionl fop Toosohan. The steamer Glencoe was the favorite for the tea race to London. She left on the 22nd May, with 2,048,4201 b. University Rules. The “ Star” to-night has an article on the case of an undergraduate of the University which raises a point of considerable importance. The student in question being engaged in business during the day, applied to the Chancellor for exemption from attendance at the lectures, provision for such exemption being contained in the regulations. The Chancellor refused compliance with the application, persisting in the refusal. After a lengthy correspondence, the injustice of the Chancellor’s action is argued in the “ Star” on three grounds—First, the public character of the University, which exists by Act of Parliament, is supported by endowments of public land, and is therefore for the benefit of the people, and not for their discouragement ; second, as being contrary to the objects of the University, as set forth in the Act of 1874, which makes it an examining body, pure and simple ; third, the serious injustice and wrong that will be done to a yearly-increasing number of laborious, meritorious students if the Chancellor continues to refuse exemptions to those undergraduates who pursue their studies after business. The consequence will necessarily be that the degree will become the exclusive privilege of the rich, who can devote their whole time to tha University. “ Star ” considers that such restriction >s diametrically opposed to the charter of ti - University, wherein its advantages are h< Id out to all, without any distinction of ch ,a whatever. Direct Importation. The steamer Bowen has the following packages of tea on board : —For Auckland, 8125 ; for Wellington. 20,410 ; for Lyttelton and Christchurch, 8063 ; for Dunedin, 1956. Total, 55,763 packages. Public OfficesThe City Council contemplate altering the old Police Court and transforming it into offices for the Municipal Corporation until such time as the Town Hall and offices are built. NAPIER, July 11. The Rabbit Pest. There is a nice little quarrel between the Acclimatisation Society and the Rabbit Trustees. The trustees, after sleeping for two years, suddenly awake, determined to introduce weasels, despite a protest from the press. A meeting of the Acclimatisation Society was hold on Saturday, when a resolution strongly condemning the trustees was unanimously passed. It was also decided to offer a reward of one pound fur every weasel killed. ScholasticThe Wairoa uchool committee have followed the example of the Napier committee in refusing to allow the Bible in Schools Association to distribute circulars through the master. WELLINGTON, July 11. Obstructive Natives. Government received information to-day that some Natives had erected a fence to seaward of the road to Pungarehu. The fence was removed by the constabulary, and has not since been re-erected. RemovalThe patients will be removed to the new hospital to-morrow. Precautionary. The steamer inspector proceeded on board the To Anau this morning, and suddenly ordered the alarm boll to be rung, with a view of testing the efficiency of the arrangement! on board the steamer. The result was considered highly satisfactory, the boats being manned and launched in a very short space of time. Sculling. It is understood that negotiations are being entered into for another sculling race between Hoarn and Messenger. Native Amenity. The following telegram has been received by the Government from Major Mair, Government agent at Alexandra —“Tawhaio, Wuhanui, Manuhiri, and a number of other chiefs, came in at three o’clock. Tawhaio ordered eighty guns to bo laid down before me, and Wahanui said that this was an offering in the name of peace. I responded that, on behalf of the Government, I accepted the guns in the same spirit, and all people would now be satisfied of the genuineness of Tawhaio’s declaration that there would not, bo any more trouble.” The WeatherIntercolonial weather exchange :—Monday evening—Rain, with light southerly wind, over Eastern Australia. Elsewhere It is fine, with high barometer. NELSON, July 11. Caution. The report that a large nugget had been found at Wakamarina is denied. The “ Colonist ” warns diggers that the new

ground at these diggings is of small extent, and little is now being done on account of cold and wet. DUNEDIN, July 11. A Bed of infection. Two hundred children had measles in the Industrial School, 158 being in bed at one time. Only one death »:curred.