New Zealand Telegrams.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6713, 4 June 1900, Page 3

New Zealand Telegrams.

(lei Press, Asfeocia.um.) '" j Wellington, June 4.J f The April "gold returns show a decrease on the previous year from £ 130,509 tO--£76,882 for four. months*-of the present year, the decrease being The falling off is in Greymouth and Dunedin returns, the latter dropping from £61,750 in April, 1899, to £10,279. In a little under three years Government has received £3254 in cyanide royalties. ■ As soon as these royalties extinguish the J £10,000 paid to the Cassells Co., they are to be discontinued, and as each year shows a considerable increase, it is calculated they will expire in five years or less. Invkrcargill June 2. A man named John Smith <**j.t his throat with a razor at W ?t _ me a. He cued soon afterwards. During last night Hazlett's threshing mill was burned on Mr James Flvnn's farm at Wrey's Bush. The latter lost L>o sacks ox oats, 24 of barley and 12 tons of chaff. Yesterday evening a house ia Nith street war, gutted by fire, and all the contents destroyed. Nsw PtYMODTH, June 4. icn 1 th° T' c months ended 31st May, < 1b7,121 packages of batter and 17,899 of > cheese \y_re exported from the breakZf^\} he totAl estimated value being ±420,045. Last year's figures—l47,7o9 S.ooSlr- 14' 112 of chee,e> Value 4020,642.