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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 47, 25 January 1926, Page 6

At a meeting held in Auckland on Friday night it was decided to reform the New Zealand Natives’ Association.

The annual butchers picnic is being held to-day at Ashhurst Domain, and indicative of the large attendance anticipated was the fact that some 350 people mado the journey by train this morning.

Sharks have been seen in increasing numbers on the New Zealand coasts during the present bathing season. On Wednesday two Wanganui ladies noticed a shark while they were swimming at Kai lwi. They le f t the water quicker than they entereu it.

A motorist who drove from Patea down to Wanganui last Friday said that the road was littered with debris strewn about by the gale, which was very pronounced on. the higher levels. Branches and leaves were thickly scattered along the road. The first express from Dunedin to Christchurch on a recent morning contained so many passenger cars that the engine was unable to negotiate the hill nour Purakanui, with the result that six cars had to be detached and hauled up the incline later. A tremendous storm swept fiotorua last week, and for the 24 hours ending at midnight on Friday three and a-quarter inches of rain fell. The damage was immaterial, but heavy thunder and lightning accompanied the rain.

“Surely you don’t cast any aspersions on the police,” was the remark made with a smile by Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., at the Dunedin Police Court when a witness raised laughter by saying that the house from which goods had been stolen was adjoining the police station at St. Clair. An elderly man (relates the Press) walked into the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch with his hat on. “Take your hat off I” a‘detective cried. The man turned round slowly, straightened himself, and said gravely: “My man, I will if you’ll but give me time!” The Christchurch Tramway Union, at a largely attended meeting held yesterday morning, rejected the Tramways Board’s proposals for a new agreement, nnd decided to refer the dispute to the Conciliation Council, which is’to meet about February 15 (states a Press Association telegram). Mr A. H: Messenger, Government Publicity Officer, together with one of the Government cinematographers, left Wellington on Saturday to join Mr Zane Grey, the well-known author and sportsman, at the Bay of Islands. The Government is co-operating with Mr Grey in the obtaining of a cinematograph film depicting his experiences with the fighting swordfish. This film will be released throughout the world. A daring burglary took place yesterday in Wellington between halfpast eleven and one o’clock, the premises of Messrs Schneideman and Sons and Messrs Hatrick and Company, situated in Cable street, being entered. In the former premises an unsuccessful attempt was made to open the safe. Two men who wero observed to leave the premises were chased by the police and arrested.

The annual meeting of the Foxton Racing Club was concluded on Saturday, when the principal event of the day, the President’s Handicap, was won by Tall Timber. The amount put through the totalisator on Saturday came to £17,152 compared with £20,486 on the concluding day last year. The total for the two days was £30,023 compared with £39,370 lor the fixture last year. After a brief spell of typical summer weather Palmerston North over the week-end was visited by a recurrence of the boisterous conditions to which we had become so accustomed in the early part of the summer. The gusty easterly wind, which mado conditions out of doors on Friday so unpleasant, veered to the west on Saturquqr uiojj avo[q cq pun A’ep direction yesterday, with occasional rain squalls. There was a marked fall iu the temperature, which was most noticeablo early last evening.

While contesting the Motuiti Maiden Race on the concluding day of the Foxton Racing Club’s meeting Itedmayne, on entering the straight, fell, and when it was discovered that he had broken his off foreleg in two places it was decided to end his suffering. Rcdmayne was a well-propor-tioned black horse by All lied—Te Hau, owned by Mr Jas. Bull, and in doing his preliminary claimed the attention of many horse-owners by his machine-like action. R. J. Flower, who had the mount, escaped injury. In the rush and bustle of getting served at railway refreshment rooms, it is not unusual for persons to tender the wrong amount or pass over a 10s note for a pound one, or vice-versa. Evidently one passenger was in a great hurry at Ashburton on a recent morning, as on counting up the money at the refreshment rooms after the express had left, it was found that among the takings was a £lO note. As none of the assistants had changed a note of a larger denomination than a pound, it must have been tendered and accepted as 10s. It would appear that thieves are not confining their operations solely to the clothes o‘ bathers at Castlecliff beach, for patrons of baths in the city report having missed small amounts of hard-earned cash during the past few weeks (states the Wanganui Chronicle). A caretaker of one of the baths, when advising a reporter on Friday to leavo valuables in his possession, stated that a bather caught a lad in the act of removing several shillings and some tobacco from his clothing. He reprimanded the lad, but did not hand him over to the caretaker, who is anxious to 'rotect the public and make an exan ; of some thief in order to put a stop to the petty thieving that is going on.

Eleven hundred dozen preserving jars this season at Collinson and Son’s. The jars are the best procurable being the wellknown “Mason Bell’ b-aml and the “Dominion.” These are both really good makes, having been on the N.Z. market for several seasons; they have stood the test of time, and are .thoroughly reliable. Pints, quarts, half gallons, jelly jars and tumblers.—Collinson and Soh, Broadway and Kingsway.—Advt.