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Evening Star, Issue 19892, 14 June 1928, Page 12

STOP PRESS ITEMS

NEWS CEASES FROM THE ARCTIC. A-'London' Press Association message states that General Nobile’s wireless has ceased. Nothing was received throughout the, night after detailing the disaster to, the Italia. It is believed that the accumulators are exhausted, and nothing more is likely to be heard front the castaways, but they will be able to receive messages for some time yet. Meanwhile vigorous relief measures are being undertaken by icebreakers and aeroplanes. - SUSPENDED FOR LIFE. ' The "judicial Committee of the Wellington Rugby League to-day suspended for life the player Millar, who struck the referee in the Petone-Albion match last Saturday Another player, Wearing, who was ordered off for not playing the rules, is to jvlay again this week. —Press Association. . ■ - ; . A NEW MAGISTRATE. A Wellington message states that the Minister, of Justice announces the appointment of Mr James Miller, at present Registrar of the Supreme Court, Christchurch, to be Stipendiary Magistrate. His district is to be announced later, .■ GARDEN IN COURT. SYDNEY, June 14;—J. Garden appeared in the Police Court to-day* and was remanded till June 20. .Rail at £6OO was allowed. It was pointed out that the penalty for inciting to murder is penal servitude for life. HOSPITAL BOARD’S LEVIES MADE. At a sgvecial meeting of the Otago Hospital Board this afternoon, the levies on. the coutrioutory local bodies, on the estimate of. £40,860 7s sd, were made as follows:—Dunedin City, £29,595 17s 4d; West Harbour Borough, £457 19s lOdj Be. Kilda Borough, £3,225 9s; Green Island Borough, £728 4s Sd; Peninsula County, £T,259 10s 8d; Mosgicl Borough, £535 12s 6d; Taieri County, £4,456 Ss 2d; Tuapeka County, £4,495 7s 7cl; Lawrence Borough, £174 12sj Roxburgh Borough, £l3B 16s 4cl; Tapauui Borough, £73 19s 4d; Waihemo County, £1,569 0s 2d; Waikouahi County, £2,176 15s; Waikouaiti Borough, £2117 10s 10d; Palmerston Borough. £216 14s;'Port Chalmers Borough, £573 4s. In a letter to the board, the Director-General of Health complained that an over-estimate for the coming year had been made. However, he was recommending the Minister to approve, as the amount of reduciion he would insist upon would not bo very great, THE STOCK EXCHANGE. and the levy was a trifle less than last year’s levy. . ■ Sale on ’Change this afternoon Upper Nevis, 4s. Sale reported: National Bank of Australasia,; £9 2s Od.