NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 November 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Prance exports 450 million sardm es, weighing in all 20,000 tons. The Tasmanian Audit Department, on checking Tattersall’s sweeps, found that out of 159 sweeps, in only 22 cases ; had the prizes been all claimed. As |a result of three years’ working Adams held £12,427 of unclaimed money,

When a traveller in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, wants to send a telegram while he is in the train, he writes the message on a post card, with the request that it will be wired, puts on a stamp, and drops it in tho train letterbox. At the next station the box is cleared and the message sent out.

Sergeant O’Grady, who has retired from the police force, and intends to take up farming, was presented by the residents of Oamaru with a bulky purse of sovereigns. On tho previous day he was the recipient of a similar gift from his fellow officers, and officials of the court. Sergeant O’Grady hae been stationed at Oamaru for tho past 15 years, and altogether has been 40 years in the police force.

According to returns published in the Gazette the imports into the colony for the September quarter were valued at £3,314,93(3, as against £2,934,979 for the corresponding quarter of last year. The exports were valued at £2,432.820, against £2,315,369. These figures show an in* crease of £379,957 in the imports and £117,451 in the exports.