ALASKAN BOUNDARY.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 828, 28 February 1903, Page 4

ALASKAN BOUNDARY.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrighi New York, Feb. 26.

A high American Government official declares that any American granting any part of Canada’s claims in Alaska will be unable to live in the country. America only consented to the omission, hoping to find one fair-minded man on the other side.

The New York Evening Post declares that Messrs Lodge, Boot and Turner were appointod as a political necessity to induce the SoDute to ratify the convention, otherwise President Boosovelt preferred wellknown geographers not partisans to decido the dispute.

The Opotiki Herald thus discusses Is harbor The condition of the jmcii-maiigned Opotiki bar .stall remains the subject of much controver-

sy and wholesale condemnation. ff Hu world happened to he all sunshine and no storm, people would probably be just about as discontented as they are at present, and perhaps wc ought to go down on our knees and thank

Providence for having sent, ns the bar is !x means for relieving us of nionol.oay and expending our surplus voeaHdt.iv- One striking feature in conlect.'on with the bar and its attendin'; inconveniences is the fact that

those cljiefly concerned —1 lie shippers never really do much to help themselves. A periodical agitation sets in

(with much tall-talking; but. after the rush, popular feeling quickly subsides and remains quiescent—till the nest season’s produce is ready for ranker, and then again the music p’ays right merrily.

A writer in tiie Opotiki Herald says I am informed on fairly reliable authority that consternation reigned supreme amongst the aboriginals on Saturday last when they discovered that the local hotelkeepers had abolished the “ quart of beer !” This is one of the most sweeping reformations of the century. Half-a-do/.en thirty Natives will make more shinty with a quart, of beer and two glasses than a regiment of soldiers, and the local publ'ieans wul have the

grat.(tide of an intelligent public if they are successful in doing away with what, is an obnoxious evil. It is to he hoped, however,- once the quarts ate banished from civilisation, the astute aboriginal will not “ get there just the* same,” with two pints !”

The AYaikokopu Harbor Board are determined'to push ou and do all they can to improve their apd if the Government refuse to construct a light line of railway, private enterprise is likely to step in and establish a motor car service to promote regular communication between YValkokopu and Wairoa.—Guardian,