THE NATIVE COMMISSION.

Patea Mail, 2 June 1881, Page 4

THE NATIVE COMMISSION.

The Taranaki Heirs, writing as with authority about the late visit to New Plymouth of Sir William Fox aml stall, details the work performed and says ; The chief piece do resistance, however, has been some of the large tribal reserves such as Tirotiro Moana, Wharoroa, Mokoia and others, which have required much survey and sub-division work, but which are we believe now very nearly ready to be Crown Granted. A large number of special claims preferred by Europeans, half-castes, and individual natives, any half-dozen of whom would swalloTv up a country, have been hca-rrl and reported upon, with, we hope, the result that they will never be heard of again. In general terms we may say that the work on South portion of the Coast is now so far advanced that it has become only a matter of heavy details to finish it, and,that every thing is in such train that it may bo hoped that before the session of Parliament is over nothing there will remain which will require the personal snpeiintendence of the Commissioner. He intends then, as we are informed, to make New Plymouth his head-quarters, and devote his individual attention to the settlement of the complications and entanglements •which, according to the last year’s report of the Commission await him. With the power which he holds under the Act of 1880 and his commission, wc think it is only a question of a few months more or less, and that there is every reason to expect that the time is fast approaching when the Taranaki district will bo able to regard its many years of trouble and struggle as a thing of the past. Already the joint work of the Government and the Commission has wrought changes of a most beneficial character, and if the same system of patient disentanglement and quiet progression is persevered in, we shall hope to sec the il Garden of New Zealand” achieve that prosperity of which it is capable, ami become, as it ought to be the favorite home of hundreds of thousands of happy colonists.