----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Weller SHIPPING NEWS: Arrival - Nov. 9 - Saxon, schooner, from Oamaru. Departure - Nov. 9 - Wairoa, s.s., for Wairoa. The following members of the Napier fire brigade are now in training for the annual colonial fire brigades' demonstration to be held at Christchurch in February next:- Messrs CORBETT, POCOCK, W. SIMMONDS, BROPHY, W. JOHNSTONE, and S. COWLRICK ( captain); emergency, F. SPARROW. At the R.M. Court yesterday, before Mr TURNBULL, R.M., Andrew WATSON, on bail, was charged with drunkenness. Defendant did not appear, and the case was postponed till this morning, to allow him an opportunity of putting in a defence. Frederick George SMITH, charged with drunkenness, resisting the police, and tearing a constable's trousers, was remanded till this morning. By the introduction of Vermont blood into the Coonong merino flock Mr Samuel M'CAUGHEY has reached a high record in wood production.