MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 29 January 1909, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

[Press Association. — Copyright.] LONDON, Tuesday. Mr M.icKpnnal, thp Australian sculptor, has been elected nn Associate of the Iloval Academy. SYDNEY, Thursday.^ Sir Frederick Darley, Chief Just'ce of New South Wales, retired from the Bench yesterday, being impressively farewelled hy the Bar and officials of the Justice Department. News has been received of the death in England of Captain Henry Webber, formerly commander of the San Francisco steamer Zealandi'a. MELBOURNE. Thnrsday. Hides avo in spirited competition. Heaviest are in active demand, with a firmer tendency. AUCKLAND, Thurs. At the sitting of the University So nate to-day, Mr Baume moved that thp Senate seek power from Parliament to establish tho Degree of Bachelor of Literature, the motion being carried hv 11 votes to 9. DUNEDIN, Thnrsday. Mr J. A. McP.ierson, late M.P., was entertained at a banquet on Wednesday night at Naseby and was presented with a purse of 105 sovereigns. WELLINGTON, Thursday. The Dominion's gold output dining 1908 was 506,123 m<., valued nt £2,004,925. a« compared with 508,210 ounces, valued at £2,G?7<?93 fcr t1907. Tlie value of goods imported into New Zealand duriiis; 1908 was £17.471,---284, as compai-d With £17.202.796 during 1907. Tho oxpirts for 1908 totalled £16,317,541 as compared against £20.071,636 for 1907.