WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12194, 13 February 1903, Page 5

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

[NT TELEGRAPH.—OWN correspondent.]

Wellington, Thursday. BAND TO VISIT ENGLAND.

The financial success of the scheme to send a New Zealand band to England is assured. The members of the band are to leave for London by the Corintluc, on March 19. They will meet in Wellington on the 18th inst., for practice, and keep steadily rehearsing twice a day until the date of departure. It is intended by the band to give concerts all over England, and no doubt the members will take part in some band contests while in England. PHARMACY EXAMINATIONS. The following examiners have been appointed for the half-yearly examinations of the New Zealand Pharmacy Board, .in April next:Section A (or preliminary) examination, Mr. George McMorran, ' Wellington. Section B examination, chemistry, Professor Easterfield; botany, Mr. H. B. Kirk, M.A., of the Education Department; pharmacy, Mr. David White, Dunediu; materia medka, Mr. Thomas Johnston, Dunedin.

ELECTRICAL ENERGY. M. Alio, chief engineer and general mana- ; ger of a Swiss firm of electrical engineer's, is now in Wellington, having come to New Zealand at the invitation of the Premier, to inspect' and report upon the facilities this country possesses for the generation of electrical energy. M. Alio has bad a large and varied experience throughout Europe, as well as in Central and Southern America, and was on a business visit to Melbourne and Tasmania in connection with some of bis firm's undertakings, when asked to extend his tour to New Zealand. In a conversation with a Times reporter he mentioned that the present contracts of this firm include 6000 horse-power installation for electric lighting purposes in London, the extension of the Dublin tramway service, a gigantic 96,000 horse-power waterworks system at Zurich, and the construction of an elevated railway over the Jungfrau Mountain, in the Swiss Alps, which will have a terminal altitude of 16,000 ft. This last work is being carried out for the Swiss Government. The firm is also engaged on over 100 electric tramway services throughout Europe. So far M. Alio has had no acquaintance with New Zealand, but from what he has heard in Australia he understood the natural water-power available for electric purposes in this country is sufficient to supply all industrial requirements.