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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 117, 11 February 1926, Page 2

Much amusement was occasioned at the Wairoa races by an incident in which a Coast clergyman was involved (states the “Gisborne Times”). He was watching the start of a race and confided in a Gisborne publican that he rather fancied the horse that was being ridden by the “jockey” wearing a red jacket. 'The field was in due course dispatched, and the parson was observed to have become very agitated. “Aly horse,” he ejaculated, “has not started at all.” The publican, who had been closely following the starting operations, endeavoured to console him with the assurance that all the horses had got away. “No, no,” said the clergyman. “Look, my horse is coming back.” It was the popular clerk of the course, whom the parson had mistaken for a participant in the race. A statue of Alexander the Great, in gold, dating piobably from his time, has been stolen from a museum in ffofia. “To live long one must keep active,” says Lord Phillimore, a famous lawyer, now eighty-oue years of age. “Idleness is fatal.'

During the last six years John Searle, a bedroom steward on the AquitaJiia, has made 70 trips to the United States without going ashore.