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residences for the students and (b) the provision for the

equipment and furnishing of the University. With regard to

the former I have addressed you in a separate Despatch as

to the acquisition of a site for this purpose, and I have

little doubt that no difficulty will be experienced in

raising the requisite funds.

6.

enclose a plan of the buildings

and a block plan of the ground shewing how it is proposed

to lay it out. Your Lordship will observe that in addition

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to the Basement there will be two stories in the main

building, providing what is considered necessary in the

way of lecture rooms, laboratories, library, &c. The

Principal's house will afford a comfortable residence for

a married man, and the Professore! houses will accommodate

six bachelors. Additional house-room can be obtained in

the close vicinity of but outside the precincts of the

University. The Church Missionary Society propose to erect

a Hostel or Boarding House for students educated in their

schools, on ground adjoining the University grounds. The

play-fields cover an area of 250 Square Feet/ which in the

far future can if necessary be appropriated to extension of

the University Buildings, while in the nearer future

considerable area for extension has been reserved as shewn

on