AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 107, 15 May 1901, Page 2

AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

EIGHTH CONTINGENT. (Special to Turns.) Auckland, last night. A telegram from Wellington states that the Premier’s reference at the luncheon to the returned troopers to the possibility of an Eighth Contingent has been received with ominous silence. It is generally regarded as “ a feeler.” A QUAINT. SEAL. '

Intelligence from Wellington states that the seal which was delivered by the Hon. J. Carroll to the newly-inaugurated Maori Council of Rongokako, at Papawai, is rather a quaint affair. It consists of a round stamp, containing in the centre a representation of a Maori meeting-house, with the words “ Pirc Kiore.” These signify “ The Rat Bill,” the title given by the Maoris to the Bubonic Plague Prevention Act of last session, from which the Maori Councils’ Act is supposed to have had its source. DEATH OF MR KINSELLA.

Tire announcement of the death of Mr J. L. Kinsella at Wellington was received with sincere sorrow among his former colleagues and friends here. He was highly esteemed and respected, and was regarded as a high authority on journalistic questions, and his gonial manner rendered him very popular in the press gallery. THE DUKE. The Auckland public arc evidently annoyed at the Duke of York’s message, stating, that he would not recognise a Maori welcome on Auckland waters. Among the numerous correspondents in the press expressing indignation, is one who states : “ I am grieved and surprised to read in your issue of yesterday that the Prince refuses to recognise the Maori welcome, or grace with his presence their sports inaugurated in his honor. Surely this is not the way to treat our fellowcitizens, the original owners of this fair land, a noble race whose hospitality is boundless, and whose loyalty to the Throne was proved by their volunteering to fight in its support in the Transvaal. They are impressionable - and pageantloving, and will no doubt feel such a slight very keenly, and I feel so strongly for them that if the Prince won’t receive them then I won’t receive him. I would not cross the street to see so ignoble a Prince.”