EAST COAST NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1429, 13 April 1905, Page 3

EAST COAST NEWS.

,TUPAROA\ I (From Our Own Correspondent.) I The weather for several weoks past has I been very hot and dry, and fcho residents I hero are beginning to fear a wator famine. I The Natives are busy digging their I potato and kurnera crops, the former are turning up very badly, being riddled by tho [ blight, and in some cases they will not pay tho Natives to dig them. j The JGCaupiri arrived from Gisborne and south last Monds.y afternoon, and dis- I □barged about four tons of cargo. She I aftorwards embarkod live passongors, and I

*1 loft shorllyjaftorwards for Auckland. E I Mr MoCrackou, who has tho oontract I for connecting tho road along tho Waiapu I river with the road loading to Awanui, I has made snob good progress vehicles can I bo driven from Gisborne to Awanni with I tho groatest of ease. It now only remains I for too County Council to procoed with the I bridge over tho Waiapu river to give proper I access for vehicular to To Araroa, which I would also help to settle all that large I tract of valuable land on the north side of I the Waiapu river, extending up to and I around the Last Capo, whioh the Natives I are now willing for tho Government to I deal with. This is a matter of over I I 70,000 Rcres of first-class land, some of the 1 land in tho vicinity that i 3 sottled running I over threo sheep to thD acre. x J Great surprise has been expressed I some quarters at tho severity of the fines | imposed upon a Native for receiving a I oheque given him wrongfully in change [ for a smaller one, |