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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1428, 12 April 1905, Page 2

| The native land policy of the Government is not a success, and aradical change in the administration of native lands ia nehessary in the interests of the f Maoris themselves and the colony in general. It is notorious that in many parts of the North Island settlement is obstructed and : , the progress of the colony retarded by the inability or refusal of the natives to throw their lands open to Europeans.—Wanganui Herald, New Zealanders were always a bellicose people, and now that the New Zealand Boxing Association has got properly going, and district is being pitted against district, and the whole thing is legal, respectable, and under the patronage of i'i unco guid, it won’t be safe to look ways at a New Zealander. The position in Seddon-land is that the iaw has praotioally given the Boxing Association a monopoly of these displays. An amended/ Act forbids anyone to oharge for admission * to a boxing exhibition unless She show is ran by and under the authority of tho recognised ruling body. The Association can run professional fighters if it pleases for an educational purpose—and the whole of the proceeds to the benefit of tho bruieors. Altogether, the idea is a good r one ; it will tend to make the sport whole. 3 some and provide healthy training for the T youug —Bulletin. ->> The following are extracts front speeches by Mr Fisher : 11 If Mr Seddon came to me on all fours with the Govor ment nomination in his teeth I would not taka - it. I would not bo seen with it on tho tail of my coat. As to how he would vote on a no-confidonce motion, if it was a liberal moasure, and one for tho benefit of t-e people, ho would go into tho lobby, how v ever distasteful it might be, with Mr Sed. , don ; but they must not expect him to go into Parliament with his hands tied behind his back, with his feet tied, and with his tongue tied. If they wanted him to go at a 1 they must let him go with a frag tod independent will and a free sol indr. pendent mink I would as soon trust Mg Seddon wiih the keys of office as I would rust the devil with St. Peter’s key c£ ie a .ven. . . . M'|Seddon has departed ro'ti the lines of Eibca'ism, on which he talked as recently asJlB96, The Windsor nifor.n and the moleskin trousers don’6 0 together.’ 1 <