REWI AND HIS PROPOSALS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1639, 22 May 1879, Page 3

REWI AND HIS PROPOSALS.

[By Telegraph.] CAMBEIDGE, May 21. No Land Court was held to-day, bat a Native meeting enlivened the place. Manga's new boundary proposals was discussed by the Natives. They understand that he wants the boundary laid out by Wm.i Thompson and other chiefs before the war to be recognised by by the Ngatiraukawa and Ngatihaua tribes, the land on his side of the line to be under his control, the land on the other side for the tribes to do as they like with. The two tribes refuse to comply with Manga's suggestion, and as the Ngatiawa's ancestral home is at Maungatautara they resent the suggested interference, and as owners of the land declare they will not agree At the close of the Native meeting to-day, Manga said he would not go more fully into matters ft r two reasons : First, because the Ngatiwa speakers were not sober; and secondly, because he wanted Mr Sheehan to be present. The Native meeting is expected to be resumed to-morrow, when the Ngatiraukawas are expected to support the other tribe in repudiating the old Ngatimaniapoto chief's request. Manga is a large landholder among the Ngatiraukawas, but his present sentiments do not appear to be popular. At yesterday's Land Court, out of the blocks of land, the claims to which were to be heard at this sitting, twenty-four have been struck off the list. Fourteen of them are alleged to have deposits on them by Government. Another list of ten have not been surveyed. There is great mortification amongst the claimants, many Natives having come from Otaki and other distant places. Mr Sheehan is still very unwell. He appears to be suffering from quinsey.