NAPIER.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4374, 4 June 1901, Page 6

NAPIER.

THE BUTTER INDUSTRY. WORK AMONGST THE NATIVES. (By Te'.eeraph. —Own Correspondent.) Monday, S p.m. Mr Justice Edwards has been detained here longer than ho expected. The Supreme Court work was only finished to-day. His Honor leaves for Wellington by the express to-morrow, and takes the Wanganui sittings next week. At a largely attended meeting ef shareholders in the Herctaunga Dairy Company. it was agreed by 68 votes to 61 to accept , the offer of Nathan and Company, Wellington, to lease the factory and creameries for a certain term. There was a general feeling that RawKe's Bay business men should have a chance to tender for the lease. Captain Russell, however, declared that £2.500 had to be made up somehow, and it would be better to get a price guaranteed for a number of years than run the chance of .a slump in’ the market. The “Herald” pertinently asks whether the people of Hawke’s Bay desire to sec tins province become an outlying appendage of Wellington, and urges that a "olicy of “Hawke’s i>ay for Hawke’s Bay” is a sentiment that needs cultivating.

A petition is in circulation asking the Government to establish a State fruit and poultry farm in the vicinity of Hastings. The petitioners point out that Hawke’s Bay is eminently adapted for such purposes, having climatic and other conditions unequalled in any part of th 0 colony. The Hawke’s Bay Kennel and Poultry Club has resolved to obtain the services of Dir Court Rice, of Sydney, to judge the canine section of the ensuing show, provided the V/eliington Kennel Club will co-operate and share the ex-ij.-n-e.

In speaking at a gathering in aid of the proposed Maori uiris’ College, Mr J. Thornton, principal of To Auto College, referred to the good the educated Maori could do amongst his own people, and ho instanced th e work of throe former students at the College. One was now a qualified doctor (Pomaro); one a tutor at the Gisborne Theological College (Kohero); and one a clergyman in the Urewcra district (Aperahama). There was, ho said, equal scope for young Maori women.- The Maori race had a great claim on New Zealanders; and tlie pe,op! e were beginning to recognise this. It had boon said “that the missionaries told the Maoris, to look to heaven while they grabbed their land.” This was not true. It was the Government. not the missionaries, ■ who grabbed it. The work needed to-day was reclamation, and it was in that work they called upon all to lend a helping hand.

Ib is creditable to the local Stock Inspector, Mr Miller, that out of twenty-eight horses purchased by him on behalf of the Department, twentyseven were accepted by the Imperial Remount Commissioners as being amongst the best they had secured. The Government veterinary surgeon, Mr Nuttall, wont to great pains in thoroughly testing the horses. About one hundred Maoris belonging to the Wairarapa. Mounted Rifles and other native mounted corps, passed through Napier to-day en'route to Rotorua. They act as escort to the Royal party. The men are a fine stalwart lot, and ar e splendidly mounted.