PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 73, 1 April 1901, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr T. Steele left for Napier by the Moura last evening. Messrs G. Ormond and Gaddum rode overland from the Maliia yesterday, and left for Napier by the Moura. Mr Ernest Clirisp returned from the South on Saturday. His friends will be pleased to hear that his eyes have greatly benefited by the treatment he received from the Dunedin specialist. Mr Thompson, of the Public Works Department, AVellington, who has been in this district for the past week settling land claims in respect to the GisborneKaraka railway, left for Wellington by the Moura last evening.

Mr I. T. Cato, the popular manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company at Napier, arrived by the Zealandia on Saturday, his visit to Gisborne being in connection with the clearing of the Grace Hanvar, which sails for London, on Wednesdav.

The friends of Mr Bunny, of the local New Zealand Loan and Mercantile staff, will be pleased to hear that he has recovered from his recent attack of typhoid. He left for his home in the Wairarapa last evening, and will be absent from Gisborne until July. His place in the meantime is being taken by Mr C. J. Knox, of Waikato.

The many friends of Mr J. Scaly will be pleased to learn that the specialist under whose treatment he is at present is very hopeful of saving the sight of one eye. Mr Sealy has completely lost the sight of one eye, and the announcement that the sight of the other may be completely restored will be good news to his many friends. Mr Golding, second oflicer of the Grace Harwar, has visited this port in sailing vessels, on several occasions. He was here with Capt. Kelly in the barque Wave Queen thirteen years ago, and. in the barque Halcione some nine years ago. The' latter was lost at the ■ Wellington Heads. Mr Golding’s many friends in this part will join with us in wishing him bon voyage. When. Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.E. for Taranaki, reaches England, ho is going to refute the statements made by the Governor of Fiji as to the Maoris and their land. Ho says he will do so even if he has to approach the House of Commons, or higher still, King Edward VII. The people of London, he thinks, would bo very much surprised if they saw the Maori land owners driving into New Plymouth in their buggies. An American, Mr Frank G. Carpenter, who recently passed through New Zealand, interviewed Mr Seddon at Wellington, and the Chicago Tiines-Herald has a four columns of an interview from his pen". Here is the introduction :—“ The head of this Government is the Hon. Richard Seddon. He is more its President than McKinley is President of the United States. He is the leader of the House, and he almost controls Parliament. He can to a certain extent make his own laws, and he is pushing forward new schemes of all kinds without regard to precedent or history. It is he wljo for years has been at the head of the socialistic movements in New Zealand. He is the man behind tiie new laws which relate to labqr am] capital, and at the head of the party which is now cutting up the large, unproductive land holdings of the rich, and dividing them at the lowest possible rates of ownership requirement among the poor.”

Dr Pomera, the only New Zealand Native holding a medical degree, arrived in Gisborne from Auckland last evening by the Moura. He has within the last few weeks been appointed by the Government to furnish a report upon the sanitary condition of native villages throughout the colony. Since receiving his appointment Dr Pomera has been to Rotorua visiting the villages in and around that district, and he gives a very good account of the Natives generally. He met with little or no typhoid fever amongst the Natives, and only one case of cancer. Consumption, he stated, was the most serious disease that had to be coped with, and it was his intention to impress upon the Natives the importance of taking all precautionary measures to prevent it increasing. Dr Pomera took his degree in Chicago, and he possesses a good deal of the clash of our American cousins. Asked by our representative as to whether the Natives preferred the doctrines of the tokungas to his up-to-date teaching, he replied “ No, I have not found it so ; they receive me very warmly, and listen intently to what I have to say. This, no doubt, is due to my rank, for I belong to the’ Ngatitoa and Te Ataawa tribes..’-’ Dr Pomera will visit Murewai to-day,