LATEST FROM OHINEMURI.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 119, 27 May 1870, Page 2

LATEST FROM OHINEMURI.

[from our own correspondent.] May 25, 1870. The Court is still going on, apparently now I in business trim. The ruses, so very cleverly I tried on last week, do not appear to be the I order of the day this week. The Ngatakoe 1 tribe began to prove their claim on Monday morning, and up to last night TeKepa and Hapi Rewi had been examined, and we can 1 scarcely say from their evidence how the matter will eventuate. There is but one opinion i amongst all concerned: that the Ngatikoe muit f win, because all know they have land belonging to them. What advantage can he gained by violence or ruse strippiug them of their land, I cannot See, particularly when you take into consideration the fact that the Jfga- 1 tikoe tribe, represented by Te Kepa and party, were the first to try to give their land up for mining purpose's, aud actually applied to the court for a legal title so far back as last September, I understand; this of course excites the sympathy of every white man in their favour, and it is certain the bulk of I the native race ate with them too. It was a cruel, and not a very clever ruse, to il give their land to Te Moananui, hut |> his party being too clever, tried to get the I whole of Ohinemuri without a promise thai I he would open up, if they gave it to him j y other landowners became somewhat furieus, 1 saying they would retain their own lands ai 1 their own lands, open or uot open. All these f dodges appear to delay the proper adjustment of the matter. Nothing will open Ohinemuri , but a fair hearing, and a decree of title given | by the Land Court in an oper, fair, and 1 honest manner to the different claimants, who 1 shall satisfactorily prove their title.— Thatm 1 Advertiser, May 27. [