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of Gamgee. On the 2ncl of November he was received as a member 
of the College Council, and unanimously elected secretary, keeping 
the minute books regularly from that date down to the meeting of 
the 4th of March. In the early part of December, 1867, Principal 
Williams changed his conduct to him, and never spoke to him 
except when he could not help doing so. They met in the yard 
several times a day, but Principal Williams was perfectly silent 
except when witness asked a question. Up till about a week before 
the Christmas holidays, his students, ninety in number, whose ages 
varied from sixteen to thirty, behaved well. Some of them at that 
time were a little mischievous, but he attributed this to the approach 
of the Christmas holidays. After the holidays about eight or nine 
of the students especially made a noise and were inattentive. He 
ordered them at once to be quiet; and though they sometimes 
became quiet, they soon renewed their disturbances. In the early 
part of January, he mentioned to Mr. Williams that some of the 
students were mischievous, and he said—“Are they?” Afterwards 
one of the students came into the lecture-room intoxicated, and 
there was a little bit of a row. When he told Mr. Williams of the 
occurrence he was silent. On another occasion, in March, he sent 
for Mr. Williams to come to his lecture-room, because some of the 
students had, on the previous night, been throwing shot across the 
lecture-room’during the lecture, and because on that morning the 
same students repeated the throwing of the shot. Mr. Williams 
came, and when witness began to tell him of the occurrence, he 
opened out upon him, and asked, why be did not tell him of the 
disturbance in the class-room the night before? Mr. Williams 
spoke to the students, and asked them for their own good name and 
for his sake to listen to the lectures, if they were bad, and he then 
walked out of the lecture-room. Immediately after he left, the dis¬ 
turbance was recommenced by the same parties. Mr. Williams 
returned to the lecture-room, and took a seat beside him, but the 
disturbance still continued. Witness proceeded with his lecture 
notwithstanding, and after he had gone on for ten minutes Mr. 
Williams ordered' him to desist. Witness left the lecture-room, 
and went to the Museum, where he was in a few minutes after¬ 
wards joined by Mr. Williams. They went to the house together, 
where Mr. Williams said to witness if he was in his position he 
would resign. Witness replied that he had an aged father and 
mother to support, and could not think of resigning for such a 
trifling matter. He told him the names of the students connected 
with the disturbance, and Mr. Williams said there would be a 
council meeting next day to consider the matter. At that meeting 
the whole body of students were present. Some of the students 
whom witness pointed out as having occasioned the disturbance 
denied connection with it, another made a speech against his 
qualifications, and Mr. Williams said he had not observed any of 
the students whom witness pointed out make disturbance, while 
others of the students said that the parties pointed out did cause 
the disturbance; a petition against witness, signed by twenty-nine 
