TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1578, 10 December 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER JNITBD PlttiSS ASSOCIATION.) iNVKSCAiroiLL, Wednesday. At the Supreme Court yesterday, E >bort Melles and J. P. Casey pleaded guilty to charges of forgery. It being the former* (Irst offence, he was sentenced to twelve months. The latter, who had several previous convictions, received three year?' penal servitude. Dunedin, Wednesday, At a meeting of the University Council (not open to the Press), a report conj clu-ling as followg was adopted : — " Unless some alteration can be made or further inducement held out to students, it does not appear desirable that the School of Mines should be continued." The report concludes a.< follows : — '• 1. Your Committee recommend that, with a view to rendering the School of Mines more popular the Government be tb- ! quested, m conformity with the terms of I Professor Ul rich's engagement, to call upon him to travel round to inspect and report on the various goldfields of the Colony. In t!iis way, a greater interest m scientific gold-mining might be stirred up, and more students induced to attend I the School of Minas. Personal acquaiutI ance with Proifeasor Ulri«h on the part of those interested m mining, and, on the other hand, an increased acquaintance with mining requirements m the Colony by the Professor, would doubtless be a great service to the school. 2. Failing this, your Committee recommend that the School of Mines be discontinued. The Directors of the Walton Park Coal Company report that the profit and loss shows a balance of £2137. A dividend oE 10 per cent, was paid for the first half-year, and they now recommend the- same dividend for the last half-year, and a bonus of 2 per cent., currying forward £89. The Directors complain that they are hot treated fairly by i.ioverninont. They put m a very low teuder for coal, which Government did not see fit to accept, CnitiSTCHUttCH, Wednesday. Certain Canterbury members complain that they are prescinded .from competing at the examination for the two commissions m the Imperial army to be held at Wellington, on December 21. The textbooks have not been sent down, notwithstanding that Messrs Holmes and White,. M.H.R.'a, have obtained a Dro naise that' this should be done. Sir Julius Yogel was waited on yesterday to »cc" if- there was any chance of getting the examination postponed. He promised to ;lo what h v could to further the views of those interested here. Nbw Plymouth, Wednesday, Arrived — ship Pareora, from London, 112 days out ; all well. She brings a cargo of cement for tlie harbour works.