The University Of New Zealand. In the educational section of the Wellington Volume of this work, there is an article on the University of New Zealand, but as there have been various noteworthy changes and developments within the past three years, it may be well to recapitulate some of the things there mentioned, and to record others which have since come to pass. The University was established in 1870, under the New Zealand University Act of that year, and the first Council met on the 31st of May, 1871. The University is governed by a chancellor, vice-chancellor, and a senate of twenty-four members. His Excellency the Governor appointed the first senate, and although some of the original members still remain, all new members are elected. The senate meets annually about the month of February, in one of the principal cities in rotation, and its duties include the making of laws and statutes for the control of the University, and prescribing courses for examination for the various degrees which the University confers. There is a Court of Convocation, which consists of all graduates of the University of two years' standing and upwards, and its chief duty is to make recommendations to the Senate for its consideration and decision. The work of the University of New Zealand is to examine and to grant degrees after examinations to those who have matriculated. It is modelled on the plan of the University of London, and does not undertake tuition, which is carried on, on the lines laid down by the Senate, by the four affiliated colleges—namely, the University of Otago, Canterbury College, Auckland University College, and Victoria College, Wellington. The University has a Royal Charter to grant degrees in arts, law, medicine, music, and science, and has power, under Act of Parliament, to make regulations for the examination of all those who come up for degrees. There are three classes of examinations: the first for degrees in arts, law, science (including engineering and agriculture), and music, conducted chiefly by examiners resident in England; the second class includes the entrance or ordinary matriculation examinations, and is conducted by examiners in New Zealand; the third class consists of the examinations for degrees in medicine, and for admission to the legal profession, as distinct from the University degrees in law, and these also are conducted by examiners in New Zealand. The University course has a minimum of three and a maximum of five years. Every man and woman in the colony has an opportunity to take a degree under the University. No distinction has ever been made between the sexes, and the New Zealand University was the first in the British dominions to grant a degree to a woman; the recipient was Miss Edger, now Mrs Evans, of Wellington. Miss Emily H. Siedeberg, M.B., C.M., L.R.C.P.S., physician and surgeon, of Dunedin, has the distinction of being the first lady doctor of New Zealand, and obtained her degrees from the New Zealand University in 1896. There are now (1901) several lady doctors with the medical degrees, of the New Zealand University. Miss Ethel R. Benjamin, LL.B., barrister and solicitor, of Dunedin, obtained her degree after a brilliant course in law at the Otago University, and is the first of her sex to enter the legal profession in the colonies. The New Zealand University receives a grant of £3000 per annum from the Government, and has, in addition, a considerable income from fees; and in 1899 it granted the sum of £1700 for senior and junior scholarships. The successful and rapid growth of the University has been very marked. In 1900 there were in the four affiliated institutions forty-eight professors and lecturers; since 1876 the University has conferred 764 degrees; during 1899 there were about 775 undergraduates pursuing the University course, and a total number of 1333 came up at all the examinations of the year. The fees charged by the University are on the lowest possible scale; and in the faculties of arts, science, and law a student may attain a Bachelor's Degree, including all fees payable to his College for less than £40, spread over three years. In medicine the total fees may amount to £110, spread over five years. Sir James Hector was elected Chancellor of the University, first, in 1885; and since then has been re-elected three times for periods of five years. The Rev. J. C. Andrew, M.A., has had exactly the same experience with his Vice-Chancellorship. The first Registrar of the University was Mr. R. Mainwairing (1871–72); the second, Mr. F. de C. Malet (1872–4); the third, Mr. W. M. Maskell, who held office from 1874 till his death on the 1st of May, 1898. Mr. J. W. Joynt, M.A. (Dublin) has held the office since February, 1899.