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New Zealand Tablet, 15 June 1911, Page 1103

Last week there was installed in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Auckland, a very handsome pulpit in solid oak, v matching the rest of the furniture in the sacred edifice. -The design is the correct one for a cathedral church, and-was carried out in its entirety by the well-known firm of' F.. Dalian and Co., furniture makers of that city. : - •*"' At the meeting of the Auckland Trades and Labor Council Employees’ Federation, held last week, it was decided to request the Minister for Internal Affairs not to grant permission to hold races on Labor Day, and to ask the Acting Minister for Defence not to permit military tournaments or encampments on that day. A Press Association message from New Plymouth states that Mr. J. D. Henry, petroleum expert, has cabled to Messrs. Watkins and Fox that the situation in-London has very greatly improved with reference to New Zealand oil, and that he is confident of success in the flotation of the new company. . . ■ One of the Cambridge Post Office employees, Mr. A. Bateman, recently went out pigeon shooting. He journeyed some distance to a bush and dived into the scrub on the lookout for pigeons, when he was suddenly confronted by a ferocious wild boar. The shootist broke a record ,in getting up a tree, and the boar took charge underneath it until well after dark. Then it took its departure, and allowed the freed one to descent and made the best of his way home.