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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8543, 25 March 1908, Page 8

I The South Canterbury Master Bakers' Association (Tirnarju) decided yesterday to adopt the cash coupon system. It wig probably come into operation in a month or six weeks. Constable D. YY ilson, of Palmerston North. has received notice of his transfer to Wanganui. Ho will be replaced by Constable Finlayson, of the latter town. At the gathering of Canterbury pilgrim fathers and mothers, held' near Oln istchurch cibout 2, wcolc <igo, a rccorcl in the matter of families was much in evidence. It was the group of descendants of Mr and Mrs j. Harper, of tho Ferry road. Chr istchurch. They and four generations of descendants were present. There are no fewer than 170 in the family all told, including 35 gre;itgrandchildrcn and 70 grandchildren. Mr and Mrs Harper, senr., Mere passengers tb Canterbury by the Randolph, one of the first four ships, their respective ages being 83 and 82. They arc still quite Vi ell and heart}'. One of their daughters is Mrs Marshall A. Robinson, of Brooklyn.

(( To-day's New Zealand Times says:-— " The Wellington Boxing Association appeared last evening to be quite satisfied with the assurances of the Manawatu [ Association with regard to its precautions against being imposed upon by professional boxers, ; whe* desired to get off " fake" niatchcs. Alet of correspondence was read, beginning- with the warning sent by the Council from Christi church to tho Wellington Association,, t asking it to do its utmost to prevent, this sort of thing, particularly in view of the known fact that manv real and alleged professional boxers had lately come across to the Dominion from Australia. The Wellington Association: wrote to Manawatu. pointing out that it. was necessary under the rules that tho programmes of all boxing tournaments should be approved by the Wellington Association; that tho latter body wasanxious to work in with the affiliated body in every possible way, and onlydesired to prevent the introduction of any irregularity which might be detrimental later on. The secretary stated that the secretary of tho Manawatu Association had assured him that tb«" would use the utmost vigilance to [ e vent crooked" boxing, and Mr Cofi in turn,'' assured him that the Wellington Association had overv confidence the affiliated body, and meant no reflection upon its management. In this the committcc quite concurred." The Manawatu, programme was endorsed by the Wellington Centre.