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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1914, Page 4

The steamer Rarawo, is to leave New Plymouth for Onehunga on the arrival of tho mail train next Monday instead of on Tuesday, as is usually the case. The damage caused by the recent fire ab the Kauri Timber Company's sawmill at Te Kopuni lias been assessed by the management at £7000. The company lias decided, says an exchange, to erect a small milling plant on tho old site, and expects in the course of two years to complete its operations in the Northern Wairoa district. The old mill was in existence for 43 years, and during that period converted over 600,000,000 it of log timber into commercial lumber. Mr. Takahashi, wool buyer for the Japanese Government, who has been attending the Napier wool sales, paid a visit to the Napier woollen mills on Friday last, and was greatly interested in what he saw. Mr. Takahashi is buyer for the Sangi Government Woollen Mill, at Tokto, which has 500 looms and uses about 20,000 bales of wool a year. The khaki of tlfe Japanese army is manufactured at this mill, and this fact caused Mr. Takahashi lo be particularly interested in the khaki manufactured at the Napier mills. Aii 4 important camp will be held at Feilding, commencing from 13th January, when some 400 officers and noncommissioned officers of Senior Cadets in the Wellington Military District will go under canvas for a ten-days' in- J structional course. Major Tetnperley, General Staff Officer of the district, will be in command. The camp is purely voluntary, and there will be no pay for those attending. There are no compulsory camps for Senior Cadets, and it is a token of much enthusiasm in this branch of the service when so many are willing to attend voluntarily for instruction. Shortly before six o'clock this morning a constable saw a boy of nine years of age coming out of the Corporation yards with about a hundredweight of coal in a hand cart. Later in the day, he, with his mother, appeared before *Mr. J. S. Evans, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court. The mother said she had told him to go out and get some coal. Her idea was that he would get it at the wharf, as had been done on previous occasions. She was warned by his Worship that Bhe was really liable to a charge of theft, and he warned her not to let that sort of thing happen again. The boy was discharged. It is probably not generally known, says a Alain Trunk exchange, what a deadly plant the oiigaonga, or New Zealand nettle, is. In appearance it is harmless looking and rather pretty, growing in places to a height of eight or ten feet. The underside of the leaf is thickly set with tiny hair-like spikes, which contain a poison of a highly irritating character. These fine prickles penetrate the skin of a horse as well as that of tho more sensitive human being, and upon some animals they have a particularly painful effect. Recently a settler's dog which chased a cat through a clump of nettle was pricked on the tongue, and died the same night. The ongaonga is more often found in the King Country bush in the Taranaki back country than anywhere else in New Zealand. ' Commenting on the efficiency of the Senior Cadets at the Military Tournament at Auckland, tho New Zealand Herald states that commendable work was done by the two teams entered by the > Wellington Technical College for thu senior cadets' signalling event, The judges (Captains Dawson and M'Gilp), both of whom are experts in signalling, state that they have never before seen anything to equal the performances of these two teams. Corporal Armstrong, of the Wellington Technical College A ( team, was considered to be exceptionally expert, and > Captain, Dawson is going to present him with a special priae. In the event, for which there were twentysix entries, the Wellington Technical College A team secured first place with the B team runners-up. <tflie Wellington ll J ost and Telegraph team was third. The new dairy built some time ago at the State Farm is a Am 1 , large airy building with a concrete floor. The floor has a good fall and can easily be washed down. Everything is kept scrupulously clean. There are two cool rooms, the walls and ceilings of which are filled with pumice and are one foot thick, thus ensuring coolness ill the warmest weather. A fine large cheese room and two curing rooms have also been provided, and it is intended (states tho Otaki Mail) if thft services of the ex> pert can be permanently secured to take up making fancy cheese such as Welsh and cream cheese. A large lot was made some time ago and forwarded to Auckland Exhibition. A few were sent to Wellington, where they were bo keenly appreciated that Art offer has been made to take all that may be manufactured. There is also a local demand for the product. I A pitiful tale of domestic infelicity through drink and religious differences was told in the Juvenile Court, before Mr. J. S. Evaj\s, S.M., thus morning. A boy of nine and a-half yea,r& of age was charged with being found dwelling With an habitual drunkafd. The father admitted that he had been frequently convicted of drunkenness, but offered, for the sake of the boy, to go away, so as to prevent the child being sent to a home. It was stated that the man was in the habit of coining home furious with drink, and the mother said that she had often had to protect the boy from the father's violence. The Magistrate decided to commit the child to the Receiving Home. The mother asked that he be brought up aa a Seventh Day Adventist, but the father, exercising his right, said the child was to be brought up as a ltonian Catholic. "Oh, that's dreadful," said the' woman, but tho father was obdurate, and wns ordered to pay 7s Gd a Week towards the child's support. A plucky incident took place at Akatarawa on Sunday last. In the afternoon Mrs. A. E. Whyte and party motored from Trentham to Akatarawa for the purpose of bathing in the river. While they were seated some distance away from the river bank,, one of Mrs. Whyte's sons, aged six years, wandered over to the liver and, tripping on a stone, fell into deep water. H^ 'brother Douglas, aged thirteen years, immediately dived in to the little fellow's assistance. The latter, however, hampered his brother's efforts by frantically clutching hold of him. Seeing the boys' predicament, Mr. A. Perrett, of Manners-street, who happened to be fishing in the locality, dived in after them. Ho was unable to get them ashore, but succeeded in holding them up in the water. By this time the cries of those in distress had brought the main party on the scene. Fully clothed, Miss May Moss, daughter of Mr. H. W. Moss, manager of Messrs. Johnston and Co., who was one of tlfo party, dived into the river and succeeded I in bringing the boys ashore. Air. J. G. W. Brodie a-lso dived in to their a-ssist- > ance. Tho elder boy waa* unconscious when rescued, but once on land he soon recovered. The boys are sons of Mr. A. E. Whyte, secretary of the Wellington Racing Club, and the United States Consul. There were no fewer than 218 prisoners in the Terrace Gaol yesterday. Today the number is a little over 200. The following additional contributions have been made to t|ie Distressed Women and Children's Christmas Fund :-'C.B.M. £5 Ss, E. Balcombe Brown £2 2s, Moxham Avenue 2c 6d, J. T, Roberts ss, fhoma* M'Gianity 2s 6&