Bannebmak moved a further^ amendment as follows : "That with' the view of furthering the interests of education throughout the bounds, and securing more, fully the original purpose of the Education' Fund belonging to this Church, the Synod delay the institution of a new Chair, and take the necessary steps towards obtaiuing 'arV amendment of the Presbyterian Church Landa Act, 1866, to the effect that the Synod may be relieved from applying said fund towards instituting and supporting a second Chair in the University of Ot&go, and be empowered to devote said fund for the payment of bursaries,' so far as it will allow to pupils, of either sex, from the High and District Schools of the Otago and Southland Education Districts* who shall enter the University of Otago, havia^ passed the matriculation examination of said University ; and farther, that power be ob tained, in the event of the Chair presently endowed by the Synod becoming vacant, and, the University Council not acceding to its continuance, that the portion of the fund now applied towards its support be devoted to the increase of the number of bursaries, and the giving of a bonus to such teachers whose pupil^ shall be the successful winners of the bur saries." At the outset he expressed his regret that the document of the Professorial Board bad been laid on the table. — (Applause.) For many reasons he felt that this had been , a mistake. That document first deprecates sectarianism in connection with the University, but before it closed it showed itself to be the most sectarian body in the countiy. In the document was also embodied the dictum of the professors that physical science i 3 the bains of all sciences. Was that a universal fact? Beyond making that remark he would not consent to take any further notice of the statements contained in the document. — (Hear, hear.) Referring to the use of la's name at the Attorney-General's meeting at the Queen's Theatre last Friday, he said he by no means considered it an honour to have been alluded to either there or in the House of Repiesentatives. 