TINIROTO NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2026, 11 March 1907, Page 2

TINIROTO NOTES.

(From our own Correspondent.) Again we have entered upon another month of the new year, and time as it were waits for no man. Changes have come about, and to Tiniroto one of the keenest changes is the feel of autumn winds and rains. Probably there is no place in the Bay" so cold as Tiniroto,with a good breezy southerly blowing, but then we must expect as would come upon us like a cloud of dust.

Several mobs of sheep have passed through this \yay, many of them going South, and one or two mobs to the AA T aikato.

A sports meeting is likely to bo held on the 22nd of the month, and some good prizes, I believe, are down for the different events.

The local rifle club will very shortly be armed with .303 rifles, when the future cracks will snap their shells. A wing of mounted rifles has been formed at Te Reinga, a detachment of the AA r airoa troop. The wing is at present in charge of Mr J. Small, who fills tho - position of actinglieutenant.

Dipping operations are in full swing around this part-. On this question there is talk of an association dij> being built in Tiniroto. A motor car and party went through the village the other Sunday, causing quite a stir, but ill attempting one hill in particular I noticed it was a case of “get out and push, boys.”

Quite a talk is current about the Maori prophet Rua, who by the way is living about 30 miles from Tiniroto. and about 10 from Bushy Knoll. Some reports state ho lias 500 men with him ; others that they are all armed; some swear they have seen him packing powder, shot, etc.,- into his fortress. Some imagine in the swoon of a bad attack of the nightmare they see him coming with his 500 shouting, yelling, hashing in the doors of the local residents, and playing the part, that Te Ivooti did some few years ago. AVI nit a relief when they awake from their period of nightmare to still find that they are alive and kicking. True, Rua did send an envoy to Te Reinga, asking them to join his 500, but his envoy was laughed at and .put aside as fit for Sunnysido. It is reported that Rua has on one or two occasions tried to stop Europeans from going along tho road past the pah. It is time the hand of the law was put into action against this senseless idiot, who wants hut a good sound six months of hard labor in Gisborne gaol, and taught not to mislead a few narrow-thinking class of Maoris. Mr and Mrs AV. Sutherland. are expected ■to return from the Exhibition during the week.