6 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Jan., 1899. 
than well-disposed, industrious, and manly youths. The boisterous conduct so 
frequently indulged in by university students on occasions when the public are 
brought in contact with them—as, for instance, commemoration days—was 
entirely absent. The Principal, in his speech after luncheon, claimed that the 
students were hard-working, and were all likely to turn out good practical 
colonists. So far as a casual visitor could judge, there was nothing to show 
that he claimed too much for them, 
Luncheon was provided: in the workshop, situated under one of the 
dormitories. ‘This proved a cool and agreeable dining-hall, and the luncheon 
provided was done full justice to. The company, all told, numbered seventy- 
three or seventy-four. After lunch a short while was devoted to speech-making. 
The toast of ‘The Queen” having been duly honoured, 
The Hon. J. V. Crarsway proposed the toast “Success to the Queensland 
Agricultural College.” He said the College had gone through a time of some 
difficulty. He was not sure that the difficulties were over, every one of them, 
but they very much hoped they were. They hoped to get round them in this 
institution as teachers, headed by the Principal, a body of men who were 
workers. (Hear, hear.) They wanted men, and they were determined to get 
men, who knew their work, and would put their hands to it, and carry it 
through in spite of all obstacles. (Applause.) The College, he believed, in a 
very few years’ time would be the pride of the colony. (Hear, hear.) They 
had not at the present time so many students as they would like to have. 
Those that were left, after sundry little disagreements that he would not 
allude to, were the pick of the bunch. They were workers, and he could assure 
his hearers from his personal knowledge that nine out of every ten of them 
would turn out first-class, useful colonists, able to turn their hands to anything 
in connection with the house or in connection with the farm. (Hear, 
hear.) It was somewhat disheartening, after the Government offering 
bursaries to the College, for some reason or other those bursaries, 
which offered to the students who won them a free education for a 
matter of three years, had practically had no applicants for them. It 
might be that the advantages of the College were not widely enough known. 
(Hear, hear.) If that were so, he trusted that those who were there now 
would spread far and wide what they had seen of the College and of the work 
done there. (Hear, hear.) It might appear to some of them that a very great 
deal of money had been spent, and he could assure them that a great deal of 
money would have to be spent to carry out the work of the institution. The 
dairy they had only just got into working order. They would agree with him 
in considering the teaching of practical dairying one of the most important 
and one of the most fruitful of educational forms in the colony. (Hear, hear.) 
Now they had got it into working order, they would be able to send to the 
exhibition at Earl’s Court, in London, weekly shipments of butter, to be placed 
in the refrigerating chamber and shown alongside the meat from this colony, 
to show the public. what we could do here. (Hear, hear.) There was going to 
be.a very big show next year in London. The colony had secured 10,000 feet 
of space, and they hoped to make a display which would be creditable to the 
colony, and would be an admirable advertisement of our resources. He hoped 
to see the Agricultural Department extremely well represented there. He 
had no hesitation in asking them to drink with him success to the Agricultural 
College and its masters, and more especially he asked them to wish success in 
his arduous and-uphill fight to John Mahon, the Principal. (Applause.) 
Mr. Manoy, in responding, said he knew he had an uphill battle to fight, 
but he had a class of students to deal with who were a credit to their parents 
and a credit to the colony. In dealing with them he trusted io their sense of 
honour, and he had found that he could do that safely. Out of the thirty-six 
students he had now, there was not a bad one. About six months ago he took 
charge of the institution, under very adverse circumstances, but he had had 
a thorough successful half-year. Some of the criticism which some of the 
students had been subjected to had done a good deal of harm to the College. 
