LATE SHIPPING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 307, 27 December 1915, Page 2

LATE SHIPPING.

! • 1 Wellington, December 27.—Arrived: Ulil maroa, s.s., vt t 7.1C» am., from 'Sydney. i . 3 Mr T. Loit'ch, a member of the Takai. puna School Committee, has received 3 notice from the Education Board that 3 the petition presented some months ago 1 to create a new school district for the t Belmont and Baywater school .has been t granted. A committee will therefore be t formed at the next meeting of house- - holders, which takes place next April. 1 An alarm of fire was given in a very 2 peculiar manner in Christchureh. A " carter for a timber merchant was driv- " ing a dray across the intersection of two 7 streets, when he missed his footing and 3 fell off the dray. In his fall he collided with a fire alarm box, and fractured the glass, an alarm being given, to which the brigade promptly responded. The injured man was taken to 1 the hospital, where it was found that he had sustained severe bruises and internal injuries. During the whole of Friday morning thick shoals of small fish were seen close " in the beach at .Napier, aud later a large shark was seen swimming leisurely along | tho Bca front, about 100 yards out from tho shore. On the same evening it ' caused numerous surf-bathers to make , a hurried exit from the water. A shoal of sharks, some of which appeared to be ; mbout 12ft to 15ft in length, was noticed . by some spectators, and the alarm was \ given to the bathers. The shoal ap- / peared to be about 100 yards out. and [ when the alarm was given a man was I noticed ■oroo fifty yards out, but camo -i-sxfi itisiy. j *C ..,.-.- - *>