LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1272, 30 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The TTuddart-Parkcr Company's steamer Victoria arrived at Auckland yesterday afternoon with an Australian mail. The Wellington portion of this mail will arrive by the Main Trunk express this afternoon. Tho sum of .£750 appeal's on the. Supplementary Estimates for the purchase of a post office site at Brooklyn. Mr. li. A. Wright staled in Parliament on Friday nisht that lie thought the Department had made a very good bargain if tho section was the one lie thought. Cable news was recently received that Maeterlinck, the famous Belgian dramatist and author, had been awarded the Kobe! prize of .fiftlOO for literatim. Maeterlinck's remarkable allegorical play, "The Blue Bird." will ho staged in Australia next year by -J- C. Williamson, Ltd. The play has tan booked for a lons English provincial tour, after which tho company comes to Australia. At a meeting of the Methodist Church Extension Council, held on Friday evenin?, it. was decided, on the motion of tho iie'v. J. Ward, that the ?um of JMOO be granted from tho Church Extension Fund for tho erection of a new church at Karori. At 9.35 p.m. on Satnrday._the Fire Brigade received a call to Karori licad, where a ten-roomed dwelling, owned by Mr. E. C. Young, was in flames. When tho brigade readied the scene, tho fire had a good hold on the building, ana, before the outbreak was suppressed, both building and contents were badly damaged. Members ol the family were absent ;it the time, e.nd no cause for the outbreak can be assigned. Tho building was insured in iho Atlas ofiice for and the contents were covered by a policy ill the sami- ofiice for ,£250. Professor Mills addressed a crowded meeting at the Palace Theatre, Petone, yesterda) afternoon on the subject of NoLicense. lie dwelt with the question in an extended manner, and at the conclusion urged his hearers to strike out the top line. Mr. P. C. Frccth cccupicd liio chair. "Jf a free-place student misses his classes lie lorteits his tree place, and if ho misses his parades lie is face to face with trouble with live Defence authorities," remarked Mr. W. S. La Trobe, at the Wellington 'technical School Board's meeting on Friday evening, apropos of a resolution which had been remitted from the Canterbury Technical College on the subject of compulsory military training. The Ciiristehurch Board was of opinion that technical evening classes and weeli-nigbt parades would clash, and sought Iho coonerntion of the Wellington Board in an agitation to have all drills ior senior cadets and Territorials attending tcchiiiial classes in the evening transferred to the school vacation. U- was decided to co-operate as suggested, but that negotiations should be by way of the Education l.'epartnient, as it wis fe.lt that any such adjustment would necessarily involve some basis of compromise between the Jlrience Department and the Education Department, tho principal parties.

Mr. D. M'T/nren, JI.P. £or 'Wellington Kast, has Ix'cn infonucd by festal authorities that .tho sum o£ .fSOO lias 1>o?n placoil on Ilia Supplementary Estimates Tor a Tost Office &ho at Halaitai.