The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-01 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 30.—At a congregation holden
this day the following degrees were conferred :
M.A.—William Collins Badger, Queen's College.
B.A.—Hugh Proby, Trinity College.
Edmund Oldfield, M.A., Fellow of Worcester
College, Oxford, was admitted ad eundem.
At the same congregation, Mr. Latham, of Trinity-
hall, was appointed (by grace) an examiner at the
previous examination in the Lent and Michaelmas
terms of the year 1851.
THE CURACY OF SELBY.—There were originally
several candidates to supply the vacancy in the above-
named curacy, but these were by resignation of the
remainder reduced to two, viz —the Rev. Francis
Whaley Harper, M.A., St. John's College, and the
Rev. T. A. Scott, M.A., of Cl;re-hall. The Vice-
Chau:l,ll°r appointed yesterday (October 29) for the
election, which took place as under. The hours of
polling and the number of votes registered for each
candidate were as under :

Ten to eleven, A K... Harper 63 .... Scott 20
1.30 to five P.M. „ 149 .... „ 48
Seven to nine, P.M... „ 54 .... „ 48
At nine a scrutiny was called, and Mr. Harper
was declared to be the successful candidate.

THE LE BAS PILIZE.—This prize, founded out of a
fund raised by some students under the late Rev. C.
W. Le Bas, at Haileybury College, to provide a last-
ing memorial of their respect and esteem for him,
and given annually for the best English essay on ge-
neral literature, the subject chosen being in connex-
ion with the history, institutions, and probable destiny
and prospects of our Anglo-Indian Empire, has been
adjudged to Alexander Howell Jenkins, M.A., of
Christ's College.
MEDICAL EIAMINATION.—The examination for
the licence, ad practicandum in medicina, will com-
mence on Monday, Nov. 4, at ten o'clock, A. AL, at
the Arts School, under the Public Library, and will
continue that ind the three following days. Candi-
dates for the degree of Bachelor of Physic will be
examined at the same time by the Regius Professor
of Physic, the Professor of Anatomy, and the Down-
ing Professor of Medicine.
KING'S COLLEGE.—There will be a meeting of the
fellows of this society on Saturday next, to supply
the vacancy in the provostship, caused by the decease
of the late Dr. George Thackeray. The Rev. Richard
Okes, A. 8., 1822, M.A., 1825, lower master of Don,
1838, and the Rev. Harry Dupuis, B.A. 1831, M.A.
1834,, assistant master of Eton, are mentioned as
candidates for the office.

NELSON SETTLEMENT,
NEW ZEALAND.

A meeting of the absentee proprietors of the Nel-
son Settlement, New Zealand, convened by the com-
mittee of the same, was held at the New Zealand
House, onWednesday, at one o'clock, Mr. Burnard in
the chair.

The CHAIRMAN stated that as the New Zealand
Company had surrendered their charter to the
Government, and as the Government now stood in
the place of the direction, it was held desirable to
urge on them the claims of the absentee proprietors,
now entirely neglected. He proceeded to state gene-
rally that the resident proprietors enjoyed all the
advantages of the allotments of land in the colony—
that the company's chief and other agents were dis-
posing of the land in blocks of 8,000 acres, and that
the value of the allotments made to the absentees was
most materially lessened by the power of selection
given to the settlers on the spot. Cattle runs, of the
best description, had been given to individuals, to the
extent of 7,000 acres, at a nominal acknowledgment ;
and allotments made eight years since to the non-
resident proprietors were not now worth one-third of
their value at that period.
Letters were read to this effect from Mr. E. Tolle-
mache, resident in the colony, and generally com-
plaining of the injustice done to the original pur-
chasers. The writer advised no person to purchase
more land than he possibly could dispense with in the
new Canterbury settlement at 31. per acre, when it
could be got at Otago for 10s., and at Wairee and
Rangatee for 55., of better quality. He considered
that, as there had been compensation given to resident
proprietors, it should also be given to absentee pro-
prietors ; and complained bitterly of the valueless
character of a large portion of the land allotted to
to him—viz., 7,400 acres, which represented a cost
price of 11,0001.
The CHAIRMAN said the resident proprietors would
have to depend upon themselves, not upon the New
Zealand Company ; for when application was made on
the score of compensation they were neither prepared
to admit the validity of the appeal, or to give the
claim any furtherance.
Mr. F. YOUNG said the non-resident proprietors
were left the skim-milk of the land, while the resi-
dent proprietors got the cream. lie agreed with the
chairman as to the necessity of self-reliance on
the part of the committee, and then moved a
series of resolutions calling on the New Zealand
Company to aid them in obtaining compensation from
the Government, on the ground that it would be
injustice to the non-resident proprietors to withhold
it, when the resident proprietors were receiving it at
the hands of the agents and local arbitrators. The
resolutions substantially embodied the statements
made by the preceding speaker. The resolutions
recommended that, in the event of compensation
being refused, the non-residents should relinquish
their allotments, and claim the money which they had
advanced, with interest thereon.
Mr. WHITE, an original allottee of the section, con-
sidered himself peculiarly aggrieved by the preferences
given to resident proprietors. If the sale had been
completed to him by the company in• a reasonable

time, he would now be in the possession of compensa-
tion, as he intended to have sent his son out as a
settler. In this respect the directors were to blame;
but he admitted that the Governm'nt were to blame
also for the excessive severity of the terms they had
proposed to the directors. He fully coincided in the
resolutions; and he believed there was justice enough
in the British Government to cause them to entertain
their claims.

A SHAREHOLDER said the directors had had
160,0001. in money for awards of land, and asked what
had become of it.

Mr. TOLLEMACHR said that 200,000/. more, bor-
rowed from the Government, had been spent.
The CHAIRMAN thought the money could be ob-
tained from the Government through the Court of
Chancery. He did not think the proprietors would
get an acre from Lord Grey, except he was compelled
by the Parliament to give it.
Mr. Mooau (ten years a resident in the colony)
bore testimony to the fair play always shown by the
resident settlers in the colonies to the absentee pro-
prietors. They were for the most part men of the
highest standing in the colony. He had left the
colony, however, in 1847.
The CHAIRMAN said the matters complained of re-
ferred to December last.

Mr. MooRE Still believed those gentleman had only
one feeling—to do justice to the non-resident pro-
prietors. It was not the settlers, but the company's
agents, that were to blame.
This statement as regards the resident proprietors
was, however, strongly combatted by the chairman
and other speakers.

A general resolution, embodying the spirit of the
series of resolutions propounded, as the sense of the
meeting, was adopted.
A deputation was then appointed to wait on the
directors of the New Zealand Company to enforce the
claims of the non-resident proprietors, in accordance
with the resolutions, and the meeting separated.