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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1340, 18 January 1912, Page 5

5 . Professor Grant, of tho University of t Leeds, England, and a lecturer of repute. in tho subjects,of History and Economics. will visit New Zealand towards the end)'. ! of July next, on a pleasure trip, and will, : spend some throe or four months in the. , 'Dominion. Some discussion : took placo. at the mcoting of. the Victoria. College. • Council last evening with regard to .>, proposal that- arrangements bo mado for' a course of lectures to be given br. tho ? professor when in New Zealand,- and it 5 was finally agreed that Mr. H. Y. Von > Haast, during his projected visit to Eng--5 land, should get. into touch with Pros lessor Grant on the'subject of "a"course'of 1 lectures to be given to tho students ini Wellington. ! Another old Wellington land-mark ia 1 being sacrificed to tho necessities of tho newer generation—tho old military headi quarters offices, at the corner of. Buckle I Street and Taranaki ■ Street.' ' For yca'l'si past this old building has given comfortable shelter to the staff of tho stores ", branch of the Defence Department, who '* are now in temporary, quarters, on thw ground floor of a commodious brick store, designed to harbour largo stocks or ' equipment. The'old headquarters office > was built, in-1862, -and'is now'to giro ; place to a brick office building for tho staff. Interesting reference was mado to the Mines Commission by Mr. J. Glover, a I local official of Uio Federation of Labour, jn a speech delivered at tho federation social gathering on Tuesday evening. When it was first decided to set up a Royal Commission to inquire into working conditions in mines (Mr. Glover remarked), tho Government said that it would not bo dictated to by tho Federation of Labour in regard to the personnel of the Commission. Some of the Government nominees, who were appointed without reference to the federation, refused, however, to sit, and eventually two men approved by the i federal ion were appointed to the Commission. The inclusion of these members had been more than justified, and the result of the Commission's report would he, Mr. Glover prophesied, that the conditions of the mining industry in New Zealand would be much better in the future than ' they had ever been in the past. The report of tho Commission would be mado public in a few months, and it would be found that the men whom he had spoken of had done good work. He understood that, on soveral occasions, tho chairman of the Commission had left his seat as a result of the position taken up by these representatives of the workers, but they had refused to bow down, and he believed that they had won all along [the lia«,