AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 429, 30 May 1902, Page 2

AUCKLAND NEWS.

.(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last mght. The City Council has decided to vote £250 for the Coronation celebrations ; that with the Government subsidy will make an expenditure of £SOO. Speaking to-day, Lord Ranfurly very severely criticised the affairs of .the Costly Home for the aged poor. He said that he did not wish to find fault with the management, but more attendants were needed. The place was not kept so clean as it should lie, and more attention might be paid to classification and diet. The Imperial pensioners in the Home were not so favorably treated as the old age pensioners, which was not just. The workhouses at Home were in many things better than the Costly Home. Counterfeit shillings ' are at present being circulated in Auckland. They are a very good imitation of the 1991 issue, which date the coins bear.

NATIVE LANDS

(Special to Times.) AUCKLAND, last night. Mr Carroll returned from Tckuiti

last night, after a successful meeting with the Ivingite and Ngatimaniopoti tribes. All the leading chiefs unanimously urged that the recent Native land legislation should be immediately put into operation. They have placed their lands unreservedly in the Minister’s hands to be dealt with under the

new Jaws. Mr Carroll was greatiy gratified at the unanimity and intelligence displayed by the Natives. The Focal press refer to the meeting as one of the most successful ever held in the

Rohepotae district. Mr Carroll was engaged nearly all the day here with Mahuta, Kaihau, and other prominent chiefs, locating boundaries under the Maori Councils 1 Act. Mr Carroll expects to leave here for the South in a day or two.