TO THE EDITOB.
Sir,—Your press telegrams to-day inform your readers that a deputation has been urging upon the Government to establish a university college m Wellington, at a cost of £5000 annually to the colony, and that the Premier favoured finn nnn P°Sal" i S^ ely w,ith a P°Pu^«on of some 600,000 people the colony oughi,' to be well enough supplied with the New Zealand Univer sity and three university colleges; but no Auckland, Chnstchurch, and Dunedin have uni versity colleges, and so must Wellington Why not carry it a little further and add Napier New Plymouth, Nelson, Blenheim, and Inver cargill? Is the hardship not as great for the students of these provincial capital towns to leave their homes as it is for those of Welling ton f It is said that this year's revenue will show a surplus over expenditure, but how will X^ 6 s| C(i uired? W>y» simply by imposing additional heavy burdens on. the taxpayers burdens which, but for the rise in the price of produce, could not have'been borne, and would have ruined the colony., Now,; there is no reasonable ground for believing that these high prices will be maintained: it therefore becomes our Government and legislators to watch every item of expenditure and to study the greatest economy, even to parsimony.—l am &c Dunedin, May 24. Economy.
THE ROSLYN TRAMWAY

TO THE EDITOB.
