OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 862, 16 September 1871, Page 3

OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

The following are the terms of the memorial presented to the House of Eepresentatives by the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and members of the Council of the University of Otago : " That the General Assembly of New Zealand, by the New Zealand University Act, 1870, provided annual payment of £3OOO out of the Consolidated Eevenue of the colony for maintaining the University of New Zealand, and towards defraying the several stipends of the professors, officers, and servants of such University, and for the establishment of lectures in the affiliated colleges, and towards defraying the expenses of such fellowships, scholarships, prizes, and exhibitions, as should be awarded for the encouragement of students of such University, and towards providing a library for the same, and towards defraying all the necessary charges connected with the management thereof. And that the Council of the University of New Zealand has appropriated the above sum for the current year in the following manner, namely, £IOOO for the establishment of twenty scholarships,

£IBOO for the establishment and subsidizing, in the affiliated institutions, of such professorships or lectureships as may be determined on, and £2OO for the payment of the incidental expenses of the Council. And that the University of Otago has been deemed to have, for the purpose of tenure of scholarships only, the privileges of an affiliated institution. We therefore pray that the University of Otago may share with the other provinces in the distribution of the grant of the Consolidated Revenue on the principle laid down in the Capitation grants of last session of tho General Assembly."