AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 159, 17 July 1901, Page 2

AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

WI PERE. (Special to Times.) Auckland, last night. Wi Pore, M.H.R. for the Eastern Maori electorate, is, I regret to state, very ill at Rotorua. During the Duke's visit to that part Wi Pore worked hard, and was instrumental in helping to bring the function to a successful issue. The exposure, together with the dampness and the ■severe, cold weather, would not have improved Wi Pore’s condition during the Royal visit. The Maoris he so truly represents will no doubt be glad to hear of Wi Pere’s speedy recovery. CONDOLENCE. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall have wired, through the Government, their condolence with Major Fox’s death. Native mourners aro assembling in largo numbers. AN ESTEEMED OFFICIAL.

The local staff of the Union Steam Ship Company met last evening to bid farewell to tho esteemed Mr John A. Crnmond taccountant), father of Mr Cramond, of Gisborne. Mr Cramond, sen., is retiring from the Company after many years’ service. Tho acting-manager testified to the sincere respect in which Mr Cramond was held by tho staff generally. Mr Cramond was presented, on behaif of tho staff, with a handsome sot of pipes. He expressed his thanks to tho staff for their present, and their kind expressions of esteem, which he values highly. Mr F. J. O’Meara, an old Gisborne boy, made a few remarks testifying to the esteem in which Mr Cramond is hold by tho staff for his kindly and genial character. Mr Cramond will leave shortly for a holiday trip to tho South and Australia.

PLENTY OF RAIN. Yesterday was tho first day for nearly a mouth that was allowed to pass without rain, but not for long, rain again setting in to-day. KING’S TITLE. A discussion goes on upon tho title complimentary to the colonies which Mr Chamberlain has announced that the King will presently assume, and by which he will doubtless bo crowned. The serious London Spectator very properly condemns “ Sovereign of Groat Britain” as “nowspaperish,” and even infers that it is “ vulgar,” but its own suggestion that Edward VII. should be known to us as “ Sovereign Lord of Canada, Australia, and South Africa,” is (says your morning contemporary in a leading articlo) even more objectionable on overy ground but that of sonorousness. It is over loaded. It is over long ; it is over explicit, and it is not explicit enough. Where does Now Zealand come in ?

A PETITION. The publisher of tho Woodvillo Examiner is petitioning Parliament for the remission of £5, amount of fine intlieted on him for publishing an advertisement with reference to the holding of an Art Union in Melbourne recently. MAORI CURIOS. Referring to my remarks tho other day upon the question of Maori curios being sent Home in large quantities, the Hon JT. Carroll has brought tho matter beforo the House. Mr Carroll informed Parliament that tho time was not far distant when it would bo necessary to search' foreign museums for Maori relies. In many countries the export of such articles was prohibited, and power was given to the Government to purchase them, 110 | hoped to seo something of the saute kind done in New Zealand.