THOMPSON A LANDOWNER.

Evening Post, Issue 106, 12 June 1865, Page 2

THOMPSON A LANDOWNER.

It has been asserted by a contemporary that William Thompson has but a very small share in the land situated within the boundaries Bet forth in the Waikato Confiscation Proclamation. In point of fact, however Thompson was the largest landowner, and consequently the largest loser, in all the Waikato district. Ngaruawahia, the res), deuce of the late King Potatoa, with most o£ the land adjoining it, belonged to Thompson and his tribe, and were merely handed over for the use of the Court and Maoria nation by Te Waharo, Thompson's father... The lands at the Maungatautari, Horatiu, Kiri Kmroa, all belonged to Thompson, who possessed the supreme chieftainship over them. Rewi, on the contrary, possessed no land within the confiscated boundaries. If Thompson really intended, by laying down hiß taiaba, to signify his determination to fight no more, there is no reason why the Government should be hard on him in the matter of land. We see no reason, however, why' Rewi, Bhould be admitted to terms on mdre favourable conditions than Thompson • and as the latter has lost a ¦ good deal of land, the former might be mulcted to some extent also, as a reward for his pertinacious rebellion— New Zealander.