DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 5 December 1914, Page 4

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

DOMINION EXPORTS. ' A WEEK'S FIGURES. "" By Telegraph.—Per Press Association, Wellington, December 4. The exports o! New Zealand products for the week ended December Ist were as follow, according to to-night's i Gazette: Butter, £42,420; cheese, £40,129; frozen lamb, '£553; frozen mutton, £14,445; frozen beef, etc., £.17,■015; gold, £7637", grain and pulse, £4381;' hides and skins, £4892; kauri gum, £72; flax and tow, £2133; tallow, £2657; tim'ber, £7321; wool, £27,025. | GRAIN STATISTICS. Wellington, December 4. j The following statistics of grain and other crops sown, or intended to be sown, !in the current season appear in tonight's Gazette. The returns are collected for October and November:— For Threshing Only.—Wheat, . 18!),507 acres; oats, 287,561; barley, 28,347; maize, 5477; peas, 13,304. l Intandcd to be Cut for Seed—Eye grass, 50,533 acres; cocksfoot, 17,551; ! Chewing's fescue, 7158; red clover, 5702; | white clover, 1458; other clover, >B6O. ' Sown or intended to be sown.—Potatoes, 21,887 acres; turnips, 514; 105; mangolds, 4)691; rape, 197,114. . A DISHONEST LAW GUERK. Gisborne, December 4. Edward Hooper, a half-caste law clerk, who was accused of the theft of £lO from his employers, was remanded. The police stated that accused had admitted taking £IOOO. He had a loaded revolver in his possession when arrested. j DEATH ON SHIPBOARD. ! Wellington, Last Night. While the steamer Mamari, which arrived to-day from iLondon, was at Capetown on November Bth, a passenger named Mark Jarvis died. He had been ailing for some time. His wife and granddaughter were also passengers on the vessel. Jarvis was 70 years of age, and was farming in Hawke's Bay prior to making the trip to England for the benefit of his health. ARBITRATION COURT. Wellington, 'Last Night. At the Arbitration Court to-day, a compensation case, Joseph Dowsett v. the Union Steamship Company, was heard. Dowsett, while employed as fireman on the Aorangi on 26th February, 1914, fell over the crank of an engine, and then fell into the crank-pit. He sustained injuries to his skull, knee, and small of the back. The Court award- • ed £250, less amounts already paid.

i Frederick James Banks claimed compensation from the Union Steamship Company for injury sustained to his knoe on-2nd March, 1914, through a sack of grain falling on it while plaintiff was working as a waterside laborer on the Wa'rrimoo. Evidence showed -that the knee would probably improve with treat•ment, and the Court awarded £IOO. -