VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 April 1910, Page 3

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

JBY TELEOBAfH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION^ FOUND DEAD. DUNEDIN, This Day.—Mrs Capamagan, an elderly widow, was found dead on the footpath last night, presumably from heart failure. DAMAGES~A WARDED. BLENHEIM, This Day.—At tho Supreme Court to-day Catherine Andrews claimed from the Minister of Railways £IOOO for injuries sustained in a railway collision at the Blenheim station on" June 14th last year. The jury awarded £550 and Judge Cooper granted costs on tho highest scale. FIRES.

GISBORNE, April 7.—A fire last night destroyed a Chinese laundry, owned by 1). Sandlant. It was insured for £250 in the State and £SO in the Standard. A dwelling at Makaraka owned by Parker and occupied by Leroy was destroyed. It was insured for £195 in the National Office.

THE NATIVES AND RELIGION. GISBORNE, This Day.— Bishop Averill, who has been on a 'our of the East Coast, expressed himself as highly delighted by the visit end interest: shown in church work by the Maoris. lie was particularly impressed with Mie work of the Native School teachers whom he had seen under different, sets of circumstances. He had stayed with them and visited their schools and was quite confident that, they were doing splendid work, educationally, socially, morally, and religiously. They were exercising great influence both in and out of schools and their work was one of the lest elements he had encountered and . ne of the most striking things he had witnessed on the Coast.