NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3604, 26 February 1927, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A thrilling capture of a 10-foot shark took place on the Wainui Beach, Gisborne, recently, when Charles Ferris entered the water to his .shoulders and fed stingray bait to the sharks seen cruising in the vicinity. Four of them rushed to the bait, and approached quite close to Ferris, who harpooned the largest of them, and then hastened ashore. The captured shark weighed 4001 b.

One of the largest burial caskets to be made in New Zealand was constructed recently to the order of members of the Maniapoto tribe in Otorohunga (states the “New Zealand Herald”). The casket measured' 3ft. 6in. in width, 6ft. in length, and 2ft. Gin. in depth. It was made to contain the remains of those members of the tribe who formerly lay buried beside the sacred rock in the town'. The encroachment of dwellings has led the Natives to remove their dead to the burial mountain at Taupiri, where they now rest. “\Ye were all guilty of that when we were of the same age,” said Mr J. \V. Bowden (chairman of the Ashburton High School) when the matter of pupils carving their names on the tops of desks at the school was mentioned. The board, be added, could not look upon the carving with any severity, but it might have to consider the erection of a carving pole in the grounds if the practice did not cease.

At the Auckland Children’s Court yesterday, a. 12-year old boy appeared on twelve charges of breaking and entering business premises during school holidays. “The boy proved to be quite an expert at getting into shops and out again without being detected,” said Sergeant Calwell. “He operated in the very early morning, and it has givpn the police, a lot of trouble to trace the thefts to him. All the cases are of much the same kind. The boyshows evidence of lack of home control.” The Magistrate (M3'. Cutten) committed the boy to the care of the superintendent- of the Child Welfare Branch.

An application by Alice Mary Wolf for further provision out of the estate of her father was made before the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Slicerrett at- Wellington on Tuesday. The testator died in . May, 1926, leaving a will under which he gave claimont £2O, a relative in England £SO, and the whole of the residue, amounting to £9OO, to his tWo sons. After hearing argument His Honour said that not sufficient grounds had been shown why plaintiff should Have been practically excluded from the will. He was not satisfied that it was a just thing to entirely exclude her. He ordered that on piaintiff giving up the legacy of £2O she be paid £220 from the estate., Each party was ordered to pay its own costs.