OHINEMURI.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 296, 21 December 1870, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

CLAIM EOR RE-HEARING THE WAIIII CASE.

[l'ilOll THE "Tn.OIFS ADVEIITISEH'S " COERES IJONl JON DENT.]

Upper Thames, December 15. The claimants for the Waihi block of land, which passed through the Native Lands Court, and was adjudged to be tbe properly of Te Hira and party, have applied for a rehearing of the cuse.'oii tbe following grounds (1.) That the native interpreter they had to conduct the case, not being licensed, was, in consequence, unable to bring the matter fully before the Court. (2.) They (the claimants) were not allowed to be fully heard ; and 3, that tbe native assessor leaned to the o,.posing party. Mr. McLean has forwarded to To Hira the notice of appeal, and the grounds on which they wish the ease to be reheard. To Hira's party decidedly object to have the case entered into again on p.ueh frivolous and silly grounds. They cannot see that because a unlive interpreter is not licensed he cannot understand the Maori language. Tbe appellants might as well put it that a surveyor knows nothing about surveying unless he has tbe protection of the Government in the shape of a license. The other grounds of the appeal they take to be a mere invention. They (tbe owners) go further, ns they state that two of the tribes applying for the re-hearing are remnants of slaughter, and the Ngatikois are rahi. The appellants have seemingly employed a person to draw out their statement who would have been much better employed in matters which he had some knowledge of, as it is evident he knows nothing, or less than nothing, of the business he has takcu in hand. He only makes it clear that the present judgment ought not to be disturbed.