Some Pertinent Inquiries.

I would like to know exactly what is wanted to be done in New Zealand. Are the four professors, say in Latin, to be examiners in Latin for New Zealand? Is the examination to be approved of by the majority, or must they all concur? It is incorrect to say that our professors do not act as examinees. They are the main examiners in our matriculation examination, and no one can get a degree in the New Zealand University unless he has been passed by the professors, for every student must sit for an examination before his professr—must pass terms, as it called. Further, oral examinations are provided for under our present system. No one can pass in modern languages French and German—unless he has previously passed an oral examination by his professor, and no one can pass in science, in physics, or in chemistry unless he holds I certificate for practical work from his professor. There are, therefore, oral examinations in some subjects in our University, and there is an examination in every subject by a professor before the student can sit for his degree. I do not think that in we left the whole of the examinations to the professors it would at present be satisfactory, or that our degrees would be more esteemed than they are now. Now, what is the other subject in which it is said that we need reform? I confess I have not yet been able to discover any subject in all the discussion that has taken place; in fact, all the discussion of Reform seems to have centred round