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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 616, 4 June 1891, Page 2

WILLIAM E. AKROYD. Money to Lend. MONEY TO LEND, at low Batea of interest, on Mortgage of Freehold Property, in sums of £2OO to £5OOO. Specially Low rates for large amounts. WILLIAM E. AKROYD. MRS CABO. SURGEON J-) E N T I 8 T Has arrived in Gisborne And may be consulted at the Masonic Hotel as usual. WANTED KNOWN—Horse and Fowl feed, by the bag or bushel, in Wheat, Maize, Barley, and Oats (crushed or uncrushed), also Chaff and , Potatoes, cheap, at Clayton and Sawyer’s. esr Special Notice—Long leggings 10s, short 8s; horse covers, 16s ; oil coats, best ordinary 12s, Woolams patent 20s ; riding aprons and valises, extra good, 14s; saddlery and harness, big lines to clear at winter prices. Special quotations to wholesale cash purchasers. Country orders receive best attention, and satisfaction is guaranteed in all cases. All repairs in our well-known style, Address: Adeane and Primrose, Saddlers. Gladstone Road, Gisborne. Victo tan Breakng Saddles—bM and inspect these.

THE leasing of 27,000 acres of the Tau= whareparae block—the Harbor endowment —is a matter of considerable importance to the district. It is plain now that delay in dealing with the block has had its advantages. The price is a better one than was at first thought to be obtainable, and in the changing condition of things it is thought to be too low, But the price of the land is not nearly of the same importance to the district as the question of whether the land is merely being bought for speculation, or for bona fide settlement. If for the latter the price may almost be left out of consideration.- The district is now in a position which makes the progress of settlement a very important matter, and the land is far better to be given away to those who will honestly work it than to be left lying idle in the hope that posterity will reap some benefit, while the ratepayers of the present day are struggling along under a crushing