The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 25, 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1389, 25 February 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 25, 1905.

Mails for Auckland and Australia close at 10 o’clock this morning. An impounding notice from Matawhero Pound is given in our advertising columns. The Native Appellate Court at Hastings adjourned yesterday. , A meeting of the P.B. Road Board is convened for Tuesday afternoon. The Wellington cricket club makes £3OO profit out of the match with the Australians.

| Tenders will be received until noon on I Tuesday for fencing in the Harbor Board I section. I Messrs Redstone and Soil’s Morere I and East? Coast coaches leave on Monday; morning, at seven o’clocka I His Honor Judge Jones arrives from the South this morning, and will hold a sitting of tiie Native Land Court in GHsborne on Monday. A meeting of the East Coast Railway League will be held on Monday, to oonI sider the steps to be taken to celebrate the opening of the Earaka seotion of the railway line.. Applications will be reoeived by the Harbor Board until Tuesday next from persons willing to undertake the charge of the weigh bridge and other duties at the wharf. At the Central Mart to-day 20 suits of men’s olothes will bo disposed of, also a largo quantity of boots and shoes. To olosa accounts a quantity of tea, china and glassware will be offered. Captain Edwin wired yesterday : “ Moderate to strong northerly winds ; glass fall slowly ; tides good ; sea increasing on coast.”

| East Cape reported yesterday morning l a light N.W. wind, barometer 30.22, therI mometer 66, blue sky, smooth sea. The Railway Department oall for written tenders for the sole right of displaying automatic machines at railway stations. Particulars are advertised in another column. [ At Mr Raymond’s Central Mart to-day a phonograph, Edison’s Standard, will be offered for sale, also a number of pictures, including choice engravings. Mr S. Muir will take the Presbyterian Church Service at Ormond to-morrow J (Sunday) evening, and Mr Jack Peaoh will take the Service at Te Earaka in the afternoon.

I In St. Andrew’s Church to-morrow I morning Mr Paterson will give the usual J sormonette to ohildren ; subject of sermon, j 11 Rising of the iSpiritual tide in Wales— I opinions of Ministers ” ; special lecture to I young men in the on “ Amateur | Christians.” Athletes specially invited. I' The annual meeting oi the High Sohool I Board of Governors was held yestesday afternoon. Present —Messrs W. Morgan (chairman), A. JF. Matthews, R. Johnston | | and C. A. DeLautour (secretary). The I chairman gave an interesting summary of the year’s work (a report of which is reserved). Mr Morgan was unanimously I re-elected chairman and treasurer, Messrs I Matthews and DeLautour commenting on I the energy and enthusiasm that he threw I into his work and the satisfaction he had I given alike to the sohool, the Board of I

Governors and the public. In replying, Mr Morgan said the chief work before them was the establishment of the tech-

nioal classes. When they were fairly started he would ask to be relieved. A committee meeting of the Gisborne Rowing Club was held last evening, when correspondence was read from the Napier Rowing Club suggesting that a youths’ crew replace the 10-stone crew. It was decided to ask the Napier club to send four

I crews. The N Z.A.B A wrote pointing out that as the Hawke’s Ray was under suspension the olub was debarred from all privileges of the Association, It was ds* cided to point out that the club was in this [ position through no fault of its own, but simply owiog to carelessness on the part of i the centre, and hoping that the matter would speedily be put right. The general opinion of the meeting w . as a oet °* fours would bo rowou duripg the time the j opresontotivo crews were in tr'Sining,, such fours to be open to members not picked in ] the representatives.

Montgomery's Spooialty Company at His Majesty’s to-night. The last launch for the Zealandia leaves tho wharf nt 11 o’clock this morning, instoad of 10 o'clock.

To-night’s train will bo dolayod until after tho conclusion of tho Montgomery entertainment at His Majesty’s Thoatro. .Tho meeting) o£ householders of the GiSborxiQ school, called last evening to-consider the holding of a picnic, lapsed lor. want of a quorum. Only six householders,, all members of the committee, jjut in an appearance..

The annual St. Patrick’s social will ho held on Thursday, March IC, and promises to be a great success.. The gathering this year will be held in 1-iis Majesty’s Theatre, and the committee are sparing iio pains to make tlio function a most enjoyable one.

At tho Salvation Army. Barrack's to-morrow. Misses llenzler and Currie farewell for the Salvation Army Training Home (Melbourne).. Captain Slattery will take for liis subject in tho morning : ."Is Pentecost Repeatable V- and on Sunday evening,, " Perdition,” Mrs Slattery will sing " Going to Judgment.”- Recent. 1 , com verts will sp.ealc in the evening service. (Young men are heartily invited., At a meeting last night the Horticultural Society endorsed the committee’s recommendation to, abandon

the autumn show; and hold a chrysanthemum exhibition and iloral fete about the middfc of; April. \ It was decided to hold, a concert in

connection .with tho show,. Messrs GGrant anil A, -hi, Kennedy and Dr IBuckeridge being appointed a committee to arrange a programme.: An offer of assistance from Mr Rico was accepted,

We are informed that the matters in dispute between the native owners of the Mangaheia No. 2 block and tho

East Coast .Trust Board have not yet been settled, and Supreme Court proceedings have been commenced to settle the rights of the natives. jCaveats are being lodged to protect their rights. We understand tho natives are claiming the right to re-

serve some 1500 acres of the block, •as well as compensation from other

lands in the general trust estate to, tho extent of about £7OOO, in terms

of an agreement alleged to have been entered into while matters were before the Validation Court.. It is

possible that arrangements may

maiio to settle tho questions in dispute satisfactorily to all parties bcforejtho sale takes place to-day.

During the bearing of a prohibition case at the Hastings Magistrate’s Court, Mr Brabant, S.M., made a remark as to the law of prohibition orders which will come as a surprise to many persons. It was to the effect that prohibition did not necessarily aease at the expiration of the twelve months, but only in oases when the police wero satisfied that tho defendant no longer required it. As, however, the prohibition ordor which caused the remark was issued in the ordinary way, it would not appear that the new definition haß been gener ally adopted. An interesting movement is being made by the Natives on the East Coast, in tho direetion of co-operative farming. One group includes Wiremu Potae, Hone Paerata, C. Ferris, and others. With the assistance of the Native Couneil the owners of the block are turning the land to account and hope in time to extend operations. In the meantime they allow themselves a small weekly wage, the balance of profit going to capital aooount for the further development of the estate.

The suooess of operations of the kind will have a very important bearing on the future management of Native lands. Questioned on the subject by a Times representative, Mr C. Ferris, one of the owners, stated that it was their intention to go in for mixed farming ; they would have a great advantage over many settlers in that they were the owners of the land and not merely tenants, and the harder they worked the better it would bo for themselves as they would reap the full profit, excepting for any amonnt.of interest to pay on funds borrowed for the starting of operations. Every preoaution, he said, bad been taken in case of individual members desiring for any reason to withdraw. We wish the natives every prosperity,