LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Evening Star, Issue 11253, 29 May 1900, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A dwelling-bonee at St. Holier's Bay, Auckland, owned and occupied by Mrs Pearson, was burned down yesterday. The building and offices were Insured in the South British Office for £270, and the furnitnro for £75 in the-Manchester. The. licensee of the Central Hotel, Wellington, was fined £2 and costs, and the license endowed, for serving liquor after hours. For allowing a barmaid in the bar after hours be was fined 60a and coats,-&hd for keeping open during prohibited hours 40a and coßts. The effaces took plaoe.on the night of the celebration of the relief of Mafeking. ♦ The Political Outlook from a Watcher's Standpoint' was the title of Mr Maekeay'e lecture in the Choral Hall lait night. Mr A. Mczengarb presided, and there was a good attendance. Mr Mackesy devoted his remarks chitfly to what be described »s the coming contest for supremacy between the Anglo-Saxon and the Slav, holding the opinion that " the lion and the bear" will shortly wrestle in a deadly struggle to decide which shall be the dominating Power of the world, from which Britain will emerge triumphant. At a meeting of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College yesterday the Finance and Estates Committee reported that funds were available for iuetitutieg lectureships in electrical engineering and sound, heat, and light, and for purchasing an electrical plant at a cost of £1,113, and physical apparatus, iho whole departure, involving a total expenditure of £2,388. The Committee also repotted that a sum of £I,OOO would be available for the erection of a building for an electrical laboratory. The report was adopted, end the Board expressed the opinion that the possession of a school of electrical engineering would put Canterbury far ahead of other disbripU, nurt make Canterbury College a centre ia th» reaptct for the whole of New Zealand.