VICTORIA COLLEGE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 70, 23 March 1907, Page 5

VICTORIA COLLEGE.

j THE LAW PROFESSORSHIP. Professor Maclanrin nas been chosen by the Victoria College Council to fill the Chair of Law, in succession to Professor Salmond, who recently accepted an appointment in the Crown Law Department. Professor Maclaurin is already attached to the staff as Professor of Mathematics, but ho will resign that appointment, and in addition to being head of the faculty of law, will als>o be appointed Professor of A«tronomy. Professor Maclaurin has had a distinguished career. He received his earlier educa- | tion at the Auckland Grammar School, I where he gained a junior university 1 scholarship. He gained bis M.A. degree at the Netr Zealand University, and L.L.D. at Cambridge, being a fellow of St. John's, Cambridge. When studying at the New Zealand University he was junior and senior mathematical scholar and was Smith Prizeman in 1896. Prior to the appointment of Mr. Manrico Richmond, Professor Maclaurin was lecturer on jurisprudence and constitutional history at the college.

A fire, resulting in the loss of a sixroomed houso, 1 occurred on tho Huttload just over the boundary of the Hutt and Petone. early this morning. The fire was discovered about 3.45 a.m., but it is stated that owing to a mishap to tho main bell at Petonc, the alarm v.as not given until half-an-hour later, and in consequence tho brigade arrived late. A supply of water was Obtained from the last phiff in a 4-inch main in Petonc's service, out the building, was almost completely gutted before the arrival of the Petone Brigade. Prior to the alarm being given, tho adjoining residence of Mr. F. Priest was in considerable danger of being burned, and but for the strenuous efforts of Mr. Annlcyard, who successfully beat back the fiarnc3 with tho aid of a garden hose, this building would also have i been bnrnfc. The destroyed house was owned by Mr. F. Priest (who bohta an insurance on the place for £200 in the National)) and occupied by Mr. O. Philips, whose furniture was insured for £50 in the Royal T nsurancc Oflice. The damage, amounting to £25, on Mr. "Priest's private icoidencc is covered by the New Zealand Insurance. Offlc*.