The Official Cermony.

The capping Ceremony, held in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall, was a highly successful function. The gallery was filled with students, whose witticisms were both appropriate and pointed. The Vice-Chancellor, Hon. C. C. Bowen, occupied the chair, and opened proceedings with an excellent speech, during which the students tuned themselves up to concert pitch, and emitted numerous discords in the process. Mr. Joynt introduces the graduates. The vocal afforts which accompanied their passage to the dais boded ill for the performance of capping songs to take place in the evening. Speeches followed by Lord Plunket — his most serious effort to date, despite counter attractions in the gallery; Mr. T. R. Fleming, Chairman of the Council; Professor Mackenzie, who was recommended to "get it over expedeetiously," and had numerous other pieces of gratuitous advice proffered to him; and Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister for Education, whose speech we saw in the next day's paper, but the exact purport of a great part of which we could not comprehend, owing to the speaker's apparent popularity with the students. E. J.Fitzgibbon made a feeling appeal on behalf of those impecunious law students who were unfortunate enough to gain diplomas for which they had to pay, and he also pointed out other ways in which the students could be given money or saved from the necessity of spending it. The proceedings closed with the National Anthem.