At the last meetiug of the Professorial Board of the Otago University the following resolu tion was unanimously agreed to:—" The board, having learned with great satisfaction that the University of Aberdeen has conferred on Pro fessor Shand the honorary degree of LL.D., herewith desires to record its conviction that by his great services in the cause of education, his capacity and attainments, Professor Shand has fully merited this distinction, and to express the hope that he may for many years continue to bear the well-earned title, and to' serve the university as he has done in the past." •

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.
John Murphy, once a member of the Blen heim police, and latterly a barman at Scrim geour's Hotel (Waipawa), was killed on.the rail way on the 30th ult. It .is believed that the case was one.of suicide, and that deceased had laid his head on the rail in front of the approaching train. He had been drinking. ■.:■<■ <\

At Ashburton on the 30th ult., a son (aged 20 months) of Mr Ludlow. tailor, was drowned through.f ailing into a watercourse.' The mother had gone out for a stroll across a paddock, and she thought the child had followed, but on re tracing her steps found it dead in the creek.
