VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 February 1909, Page 3

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

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GOLD AND SILVER EXPORT. WELLINGTON. Thia Day.—lhe export of gold from New Zealand - tail month wu 35,&, valued at £145,854 ojra d* crease of 23,10707,, valued at £8554, as compared with the return for «*«; ponding month of last vear. 11« <!«" iiv ot silver exported last mouth w.is V&fx-,; of the value of «, « [» paved with 1U,2070/., valued at £11,215 in January. 1908.

A FOOLISH ACTION. NELSON, This Day..—Tho police received news thin morning thai; a man named MncDonald, ■ »UPP°«J> be employed on the Kutlway Extension vvlrks, jumped out of a window hi a hotel or an accommodation house in Motueka Valley. He was picked ■up and it. was found that a piece of {Mi had cut his throat: Ho is being brought to town. %"«J°S thinks he may recover. the exact locality of the attempted suicide and 'further details are not. yet known.

A TEST .CASE. h ' WELLINGTON, This Day.—ln the : appeal case of Smith (Superintendent t 0 Marino) v. Sutcliffe (master o fhe • Tongnriro), Mr Judge". Cooper to-day decided that the-master of a vessel must enter into tho customary agreement when transferring « seaman from one ship to another. A seaman named Young"*had been transferred from thatTongariro to the Rmutaka without receiving" a, certificate otitischarge from, the captain of the' Tongari.ro, and without being brought before the Superintendent "of Marvn<s. His Honor held .that the master of the ship must have thoseaman legally discharged from his original ship. SCHOLAR SHIP. WELLISGTON' This Day—Oiarks ! Milne, a student of[ Wailii School of I'Mines,, lias been awarded the scholarship of the 01 ago. University, He, ! will rft OJititk'd to £50 > ;i yeai'. for' ' Uii't'O and fr-« tuition f.-.r fli.'if 1 period/