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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 86, 8 October 1914, Page 6

This week a seafarer named Herbert Lawton was arrested for deserting the s,B. Star of Victoria at Wellington as far back as April last He pleaded ■guilty before Mr. W G. Riddell, S.M., yesterday, and was sent to gaol for fourteen days. A party of Invea'cargillites. who recently paid a visit to the hills about Kingston, shot 107 goate. They state (says the Southland News) that the animals abound in large numbers, and that owners of runs in the Lakes district welcome visits from shootists. A meeting of farmers was held at Raetihi last week to consider the Californian thistle problem. After a lengthy discussion the meeting passed a resolution te the effect that the cutting of the thistle was impracticable and utterly Useless as a means of preventing spread and growth, and that the obligation of cutting should not be enforced. At the instance of the Marine Department (state* the Grey River Argus) the Government steamer Hinemoa is on a visit to the West Coaet in connection with the wreck of the Kairaki. The Hinemoa reached Greymouth on Sunday morning shortly after 10 o'clock) and before coming in visited the scene of the wreck. The three derricks of the illfated vessel, which protruded some 6ft or Bft above water, and which would probably have proved a danger te shipping to this port, were removed. The Hinemoa steamed over the scene of the wreck, after which she continued her run to Greymouth. On Sunday a party vf fif* teen members of the Watereiders 1 XJnion visited the Seven Mile for the purpose of patrolling the beach.es, in order te ascertain if any bodies or aay further wreckage had come ashore. The party went as far north as the Fourteen Mile. A quantity of wreckage, consisting oi! cabin fittings, together with & pair of boots, was the only discovery made, there being no signs of any of the bodies of the victims.