GISBORNE NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13409, 11 February 1907, Page 6

GISBORNE NOTES.

[FIT TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] GtsnriK.VE, Saturday. The Cook County Council has received a contribution of £500 from the Government towards flood damage-;. Surveyors are due here to start work on the Te Arai Block straight away. This is the block which the Government are compulsorily acquiring under the Land for Settlement .Act. Detective Maddern, who has bom doing special duty at, the Christchurch Exhibition, returned home this morning. He will assume command of the local station during Sergeant Williams' illness. "There is not a buyer in the crowd," remarked tlw auctioneer at a land sal* to-day, and his opinion was justified by the lack of., bidding. Only one section was disposed of under the hammer. Whether the upset prices were- considered too high or the demand for residential sections has been satis-., tied I cannot say, but it. was plain.that the public! were not. wanting suburban building Kites. In conformity with the. request of a deputation of Fast Coast natives, which waited upon the Premier and Native Minister last ««t>ion, the. list of assessors of the Native. Rand Court has been revised, the list now comprising 32.

At a. sale of thoroughbred stock to-day Mmiutnkc, dam of Pink 'Un, with a foal at foot, and stinted to Strowan, was passed at 200 guineas, and the marcs Booby and Kate, with their foals, were also passed. Tho full sister to Fink 'Un, a brown filly, was passed at 80 guineas, tho.reserve being 100 guineas.