EAST COAST EDITION.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 919, 18 June 1903, Page 3

EAST COAST EDITION.

PORT AWANUI.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Under date June 12tb, our Port Awanui correspondent writes: — The Herald arrived from south last Sunday afternoon. After loading cargo F.ho left for To Araroa and Auckland. Miss H. Gieasler was a passenger to Auckland. Tho Aotea arrived on Monday from Auckland. She had a largo amount of timber for Awanui, also a largo cargo. She left on Tuesday for Coast ports and Gisborne. ... . Messrs O’Ryan and Sherwood, of Wnipiro Bay, woro visiting Awanui during the oarly part of tho week. Mr Leslie, of tho firm of Robertson and Leslio, is at present at To Araroa attending to their branch shop. Tho quarterly sitting of tho S.M. Court will bo hold on Monday tho 15th. Wo are having a touch of winter weather now ; it has been very cold for the past two weeks.

TUPAROA

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Tho schooner Aotea unloaded goods hero on Friday. The goods, as per usual, were loaded in real tip-top order. A dunce was held last Saturday evening by tho ladies of Tuparoa. There was ft largo attendance of dancers. The floor was good, tho supper better, and tho night oxcollont. . The Tuparoa Football Club play »»aipiro on Saturday 2Uth, when a close! v contested and exciting game is anticipated. Great praise is due to tmo stubborn play exhibited by our forwards in the Tologo Bay match on Saturday June the fitb. They fought well but against too great odds. When our backs and three quarters belonging to tho pickod team play we hope to bgg our toaiu victorious. Sundry Maoris have beon fishing, and some very fair hauls huvo been made ; the wcathor being favorable and tho sea fairly calm lately.

TOKOMARU BAY

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Business, generally speaking, along tho Coast just now is dull. Bushfalling Luib tuken most of tho malo population out to .the back, and I hoar that fully as much bush as over will bo ft'llod this year. The new Waitahaia blocks balloted for tho othor day will be taken in hand at once, and 2000 acres of hush probably felled this season. Thcro appears to bo a scarcity of men at present to undertake the work.

Mr Wilson has completed his contrac l , the turning of tho Muiigahuwiui stream, near tho bridge, this was n most necessary work, which ought to hove been taken ii band long ago, and Mr Hindmarsh de serves great credit for pressing this work forward, and the thanks of the local resi dents Had it not beon attended to, some of tho best of tho township would have been washed out to sea ibis vvinier. The engineer’s scheme will, I havo no doubt, prove tho rigiil one us it has generally ..lone in other eases.

We are still waiting patiently for our policeman, and the establishment of a sitting of Lhe S.M. Court. Last week an old Native was found dead on the bench. An inquest was held, with Mr Ludbrook, of Tuparoa, as coroner; Messrs Fairlie, Earle, Potue, Hales and P Mulligan formed the jury ; Mr P Muliigan was chosen foreman ; Constable Kelly, ol Port Awanui, represented tho Police. After carefully going into all available evidouco the jury came to tho conclusion that deceased had died from natural causos, and found tho verdict accordingly. The football match, between Tokomaru and Tolago, at Tolago Bay on Saturday next, promises to be a most interesting event. The Tolago players proved them selves an improving team last week when playing Tuparoa, and I am safo in saving that Tokomaru are also improving. Tokomaru team will be picked from the following : T. Potae, R. Murphy, W. Gorrani, Thompson, Earle. Piper, Fairlio, P. WLite, Smith, Alberts, A. Matahiki, Mali Haronga, Howaru Waitako, A. Suckle, Te Rawluti and G. Rylaud.

DISTRICT RAILWAY LINES

(To the Editor Gisborne Times.)

Sir,—Your loader in yesterday’s issue is worthy of more than passing comment, and should tend to rouse the people of Gisborne from a certain lethargy they have shown of late in regard to these matters. Mow that the completion of the railway to Tc Karaka is apparently within measurable distance, it* is time the Railway League bestirred themselves to decide what steps snould be taken to extend the system. The claims of the Molu are constantly being brought forward in various ways, as well as the . continuation of the line to Opotiki, but in the meantime the question of opening up the country towards the Hast Coast should not be lost sight of—in fact, should be strongly advocated. The engineering difficulties of a line from Tc Karaka to Awanui should not be great, and would give access to some of the most fertile and valuable tracts of country in this district. When we consider the immense stretch ot country waiting for settlement, surely a special effort should be made to open it up by this means. The betieiit, to Gisborne alone would be jrreat, as it must necessarily lie the distributing centre for homesteads and villages that would certainly spring up. I trust, sir, we sha soon hear of the resuscitation of the Railway League and the scheme of a Coast railway included in their programme.-! am, etc., ypygTLER. June Kith.