Judy Weller Thomas WILSON, arrested at the SPIT on a charge of drunkenness, was fined £1 and costs or three days' imprisonment by Mr TURNBULL, S.M., on Saturday. The Junior Club will debate this evening, "Is the maintenance of standing armies desirable?" Mr E.H. WILLIAMS will sustain the affirmative and Mr H. HILL the negative. Inspector EMERSON returned to NAPIER on Saturday, after a three months' sojourn in the URIWERA country in charge of a survey party....... Our WAIPAWA correspondent, writing on Saturday says:- A four-roomed cottage at KAIKORA, belonging to Henry SMYTHE, was discovered to be on fire at midnight. The flames had got such a hold when observed that nothing could be saved. Mr SMYTHE was away from home at the time, and the two children were saved by being handed out of the window by their mother to the neighbors who flocked to the scene. The house and furniture are said to be insured.