NEW ZEALAND ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3135, 3 February 1911, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND ITEMS.

PROGRESS OF REEF-TON. I PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 REEFXON, Feb. 2.~ The state of mining here has been, remarkably active. Companies are working very short-handed, and arc 1 advertising for oG minors at 10s a day. The dairying season has been exceptionally good. Dairying country is being taken up everywhere possible. Fanning interests here have hitherto been much lie- 1 glee ted, but are fast rising into notice. IRREGULARITIES! NOT PROVED. DARGAVILLE, Feb. 2. The inquiry held by the Board ‘of Education officials concerning the. alienations of misconduct at the last scholarship examinations at Aratapu have concluded. It is understood that none of the charges were substantiated. The inquiry was forced by Mr. Hockin, who was the headmaster accused. DYNAMITING TROUT. LEVIN, Feb. 2. Two lads, each aged 17, who had dynamited trout in the Allan River, Fere fined. £3 and £4 respectively at Levin to-day. 'The evidence disclosed that havoc "was being wrought among the fish. Seventeen were taken out of the water by the lads, but a great many more were killed. SUPPLYING, LIQUOR TO A MAORI WOMAN. Margaret Wilson, who as representative of the licensee of the Weraroa Hotel, supplied liquor to a native woman liot married to a European, admitted having done so, but pleaded inadvertence.' The police admitted that defendant on being taxed with the offence immediately admitted it. She was fined £3. export of gold. WELLINGTON, Feb. 2. The export of gold from Now Zealand last month was 49,0G6 ounces, valued at £l9-5.783, an increase of 8887 ounces, valued at £33,500, compared with the figures for January last year. Last month New Zealand exported 114,54 d ounces of silver, valued at £11,330. which is 42,487 ounces, valued at £4172, less than in the corresponding month of last vear.