GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 68, 18 September 1906, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

♦■ j Epsess association.] CHRIST-CHURCH, 17th October." At Aaiapoi to-day J. G. Syvret, a prohibited person, was fined £10 for procuring liquor. B. A. Knight, on a .similar charge, was fined 403. TIMARU, 17th September. , The Wool Fires Commission examined four witnesses hero to-day. Three of them had seen wool heated. • On© saw years ago a bale of locks and pieces rotted to "black wet muck," at about 170 or 180 degrees. He could not credit that auch wet stuff could '"bum." Hot wool, he said, always wetted the ' pack. The enquiry resumes to-morrow. DUNEDIN, 17th September. Dr. Heineman, who was for some time .German lecturer at Ota go University, 'died to-day after an attack of influenza. He started the CoUegiate School some ' "years ago, and carried it on until it was j taken over last year by the Anglican Church, in connection with Selwyn College. He was sixty years of age. At a meeting of subscribers to the " Hocken Gift Fund " this evening it ' vras decided to erect a. building for housing the valuable collection on the museum site. A hearty vote of thanks, was passed to Dr. Hocken for his generceiiy ,in handing over so valuable a collection for public purposes.

The first debate in the second roasd „ of the tournament under the auspices of the Wellington Provincial Literary and Debating Societies' Union took place at the Catholic Young Men's Clubroom last night between representatives of the Catholic Club and St. Peter's Club. Messrs. Fitzgerald, Kane, and ' Moran competed f or the Catholic Club .and Messrs. Hall, Lowe, and Hunt for 6t. Peter's. Mi. T. H. Gill, M.A., acted' as judge, and Mr. A. Casey presided over a numerous audience. The sub- ' jeefc of debate was, "That the expansion of the British Empire is duo rather A to' colonising power than to military prowess." Too Catnolic Club representatives spoke in favour of the colonising power, their point being that even allowing for the fact that military prowess had been instrumental in ac- , quiring territory for tho British Empire, that territory would not have seen retainod had it not been for the colonising powei inherent in tho British race. ROnr On tho other side it was argued that militaty prowess had been responsible for the acquisition of most of our colonies, and therefore tho .extension of the" Empire v.-as duo to that cause. The points av/arded by the judge word as follows: — C.V.M.C , Fitzgerald 85, Kane 89, Moran 87. St Peter's Hall 83, Lowe 77, Hunt 93. The next debate v/ill take place on Thursday between St. John's Society and Victoria Collego in St. JoWs Schoolroom, and the final has been fixed for tfriday, 6th October, at the Concert Chamber, Town Hall, between the C.V.M.C. and the winners of Thursday's contest. The subject for debate in the final will be announced after the debate on Thursday. The diplomas to the winners will be presented at the smoke concert to be held on Monday, Bth October, when, it is understood, Sir Robert Stout will preside.