YANKEE YARNS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 234, 13 December 1888, Page 2

YANKEE YARNS.

There are a few colonial journals which arc not very particular as to the accuracy of what they retail to their readers. The most reliable journals of course sometimes fall into error through misplaced confidence, but tnere is no excuse for misrepresentation ou mat ers the facts of which are always easily procurable. The other day the writer in a Dunedin paper published a few silly falsehoods about Gisborne and its district, the object of the lies evidently being to damage the place ; but another writer (in a Wellington weekly) has attempted the reverse, and has also signally failed. We give the latter’s paragraph mainly for the amusement of our readers: it is not worth pausing to contradict. Here it is .—There is a great contrast between the two Harbor Boards—New Plymouth and Gisborne. The former is struggling against fate, inutility, and a want of money, to carry out their unnecessary works. Unnecessary it must be, as if it had the harbor of Cherbourg at its disp sal it has no exports or imports to back it up, and what little there is, is tapped by the rail. A new order of things will have to come round before many of the settlers, who left to escape excessive taxation to build the “harbormistake,” will return to the district. While Gisborne, with its large extent of valuable country in the rear, extending north as far back as Tauranga, as far, and farther, than the lakes Rotorua, Taupo, and Tarawera, and south into the very heart of Hawke’s Bay, so that the Gisbornians are fully justified in raising a further sum equal to £815,000 to finish their works. We often thought it the duty f the Government to step in and prevent “ little tin pot harbors,” whether the poll was in its favor or not, from fl fating a loan on the Home market, as such is sure to pijure the credit of the Colony as a whole.