Best Title to the Land

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 2271, 6 August 1887, Page 3

Best Title to the Land

The Maoris are logical reasbners, good debaters- fond of contentions, and as well;iip in' the genealogy of families as a ; Scotch i iffighlander, and ays stubborn when their rights a**e iiufringedupon Cwrites Hugh Craig in, theOveiiand.); ,-. •-- ■■//. - t : *: ..* .>^ Ata laud-court a middle-aged Maori: had^ just finished making a long speech claiming that hisnaine should be- inserted ih the grant to the exclusion df thstt ojE an old" .grizzled Madn, ; .w*i*jo: had.sld:' <_Ufetly muscie of his. countenance, and ,, h^ard i j&es yon»g*er r S nian • ask, ; iin ; . the cpurjse of his harangue, much gesticulating: *■„<-■: :*.">;-.-js'i- y. -.*i :--.i • <--' io .'-'- : * i ; •••'■" Whe_e : .are my ancestors juried: but on this I_dd J where i was born atid ; brdught-ui) v r x y '' y ~ :v L : XX "L: X; \ XX w™d ( fy ff i^\ e%ter 'Xjfpfk* '-, thipyihg, i^'erythyig';, off wtdstolpth, bpun-png across the?Qom ; addressed, the- court .mr this : way! :;■-•.- j j--! A **° x>-A'" A ix\ux)i^xU); hnf* I havelisteued with disjgusts and j contempt to the words of the 'i^tuxui (notiody); 5 Whd. r -ilai_i"caiit he! have! tottis'l&tid f r *'l :ebnlq^erßd VfiNp *agb i mistake I then wpg^oj^m f W. ■^cfeW^itftiiiliVftj! ii.')(Mfflu_iW) ilfiks, Where are his ancestors buried .'.->. I tellhim-and-show tora-.~Here 1 here 1" patti^i hie BtMa^withhis left haJud. •^.His anceWforß*-^e U_iri6»f Ii ate'them: aiiditbis _. my title to "tne ! } '■ j '!ts.(£is^,\ifa ■ \ hmd^j^ii b(**jDrp^ht biefpre the natiy«*» ! | l^p^-courts ,tban , tbe above de&cribed ; V -Ti_le;.by Y digestion." „: in *_.-<■-. ■-, ; .. j .i^ix.^ AA.j^h „1.7.1, ].j <jji .j. i- j Continuationofrebylmg matter onith page ; ' amammmmaammmmmmmmmmmaaammammmmmmmammamml