OUR GISBORNE SPECIAL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7601, 21 February 1896, Page 2

OUR GISBORNE SPECIAL.

[SPECIAL TO DAILY TBIBOSAPE.)

(By TBXKaEAPH.)

GiSBOEHH, Last night. Hegaidiog tho Minis:erial changes, the Herald, in a leading artiole, remarks:— •' Mr Oarroll's friends in this district will hardly be satisfied with the projnation which has been conferred u?oa him by his colleagues, for thougi he has taken out of Mr Ward's iiaads one of the many portfolioa which that gentleman had, and has thereby entitled himself to an increase in salary from £500 to £SOO per annum, sphere of usefulness has not been gyeatly increased.

J*'or a long time past it has been generally recognised that Mr Carroll had undoubted

ola;ir:s on' the Native Office, and it was

confidently expected that w'lejj the re-

adjustment of portfolios tool: place he would have received the appointment of Native Minister. That he haa not done go ia dis-

appointing. Mr Carroll, with his intimate knowledge of and connection with the Maori rase, ia well fitted for the post; icdeed, we may say that no one in Parliaiaont would be better qualified than he to. giapple with tho native question, if h<3, would only nse his talents and them iafco the proper channel, la Ms capacity of native member of feo Executive, and friend and couccello; to Mr Seddon, Mr Carroll has been brgfciy instrumental in giving the present Native Minister an insight iutonatiwatfaira Mr Carroll's friends hoped, that he would have been given the steading and authority of Isative Minrjiv?, and felt that was a position, ia whioh ho would have of gr£i,t service to the district sjad, to. the colony as a whole." The llemld eaye changes mado will not strengthen ike Ministry, Messrs Thompson and Walker being practically supernumeraries, Mr Hall-Jones, who is a painter as Timara, has no special qualifications for theoiSce of Minister of Justice, but is a fairly ehrewd man, who will do his work with thorough conscientiousness, There ia nothing like a fair division zi labor among the members of the Cabinet, and that the old Ministers Vpje retained within thoir j graep tKe whole of the po:15olios V7cald lead to the belief that when Mr Beddon pleaded so hard last year that he and his oolleagues wsro overworked, he w£A not so much desisting further asaistnaca ac more power of patr ( ona<je. Two rinks of Giabqrng b.oiaJsM leave by the Anglian f 02;. the Auckland tournament. The local Fisa Brigade has had a team »v active trai.sipg ior a considerable time 'oast PJv'epuvaioi'y for tlio demonstration ao Oliriu*cflurob, aud they are sanguin* oie W cefß It is now quite oleur \Ui a deliberate attempt was made weeks ago to bui;n down the new Qiaborne freeing works,. An inspection aj tho coal bunkers (now empty) was mdc this morning, and clearly the fire was not causgd by spontaneous combustion of th.o ooal, but was the work of an inceadiyy, A te3J-w.:50 bioyole rojd race took ploce frojfi Ortuond to town this afternoon between ten members of the local cjzUug slub. A. Zaohariah, yas first !iome, but Albert Adair vjoa on time allow-