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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 916, 9 February 1881, Page 4

So the Pouawa difficulty is ripe for settlement after all. The reference made to Wellington by the Native Land Court Judges, has, we aro glad to learn, ended well. Mr. Bees has not got all he desired, but he has got more, for the Supreme Court has indicated the mode in which title can be given, freed from those cumbersome restrictions which starve all concerned, save the Licensed Interpreters, who fatten upon the difficulties they can unscrupulously create. We do not wonder that some of these gentry fight hard when their employment is threatened, and raise a howl of “ Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” Native title is good, if one can get it, and if ho undermining schemer,' for his own purposes of mischief, frustrates the buyer’s efforts to get his last vendor to join in the conveyance. All will rejoice that a way is still left open by which this paralysing evil can be defeated, and title secured. Under the direction of the Court a title will’ very promptly be give in Pouawa to the present party of settlers, or their successors. Fortunately there is no dearth of applications for Pouawa, and we are convinced that Mr. Bees can place the land in a dozen different hands to-morrow, if he is embarrassed by the scruples of Mr. Heed’s first party. All are to be congratulated on the happy despatch of the reference to the Supreme Court. The day the case arrived in Wellington it was heard, and judgment was given the next day. Although the records of the Chief Justice are not to hand, we understand that while Mr. Hees’ own views are not maintained to the letter, yet that which is much better has happened. The Supreme Court has indicated to their Honors of the Native Land Court, a very plain and easy method by which they can facilitate Mr. Rees’ object, and so promote the speedv and equitable extinguishment of Native title.