EAST COAST NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1384, 20 February 1905, Page 3

EAST COAST NEWS.

WHANGARA. (From Our Own Correspondent.) ! A‘ considerable amount of satisfaction was manifested in the native settlement here when it became known that a local lad named Hijni (Tomati had succeeded in carrying off .one of the Mcßean scholarships competed for in December last.' The scholarships are open to All native schools in the 'colony, and worth £os per annum, tenable for two years, Which has enabled the youth To further prosecute his studies; at Te Aute College, where he is now at work. It is an achievement of no mean order, and Hioni carries with him the best ■wishes of the residents here for his Welfare and success in his future scholastic career. A word of praise is also due to the teacher, Mr W. Fraser, for the very, able manner m iwhioh he has -developed, the lad’s unUiQUbteU natural ability. Horn has (been under Mr Fraser’s tuition for :■ .the lasi, two yeans.

TOKOMARU,

(From Oiur Own Cor respondent.)

3VIr Ohas. Butler, of Fort 'Awanui, who was taken ill on his wa ?f T , somo5 omo I front Gisborne, (lied _ this .(Wednesday) morning* at 1 o’clock, at the Hotel,: where he has been laid up since Monday, the 6th inst- I condition gradually became Worse, until on Sunday, Dr. Davi decided that an operation was nM»sary, and to that end communicated mlth Dr. Morrison of Gisborne, Who agreed to start for Tokomaru as Sas possible- 'fhc laltermreached hero in company with Dr. Reekie, p£ Tolago Bay* ah,out midday, on Monday, , . A consultation was held b» once by the three medical men, with the result that Dr Davis's view of the ease was ogread and an operation was accordingly formed, whenh was found that there | was no possible chance of saving the patient’s life. Peritonitis was the cause of was taken of the ‘Herald being in the 'bay to remove the body to TSTSi beeo lo »».*.»• attendance npon her husband, is very Si distressed and heart-broken in her bereavement. She also went on to Awanu. by tho Herald.

The Australian match is oyer, and Ancblandcannotmao^mcamr^b^c^Australian skipper, commenced the attack Australian sapH change bow er and a in that inmoga v»Uh Gohrg> batsman, put g Auckland every bi Vn Q r unitv to aolre. The opportunity was ° P ? waited of, Wickets fell quickly, and st° M faldnc off the bowlers, put on worse N °n Gregory aod Duff, players wbo would ’ b ° Lnd sra./« S “,;“ioKSpS i H!. but lis ■ Such an action as that rOttiSStan. “ calculated to bring jc, hero into contempt, and to < 1,, do that is not altogether j Rrdike The joke may have been ■ but it bad a nasty sting m Us Australians have done> the same ijg before in Scottish matches.-Auck Star.. *, '■ EsbsS*:**? liver*. • ' 1