Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. GISBOURNE TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1888.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1333, 24 July 1883, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. GISBOURNE TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1888.

Somz t»o.months ago, tho Chief Judge of tjip J Native 1 J. arid Court was asked by tiir Native Minister to futaiish to thu Gqvernmant a report upon the Native Land Court and invirad to make auoh sji'g at he thought fit for rtmadjifig abuses,' with k view to improving tlie tijfcion. practice ‘ of the Native L«nti Codrt.’. Op Tuesday last, the import'of His Honor, th 6 Iphief Judge, tyaA (the, table oi jth'e "dluuse. ’ Nb radical phangejrom (he exfstingitato'of pieceJpro His H’dder lflearly hpoints but'wliat the txisfcfpk evjls it do# i not '- appear is .any -¥j!opal/ rood” for surmounting' ' ttieni.'’ Much; ihconvohiMiae .tp ; AUwipg‘.the, buwiness of the court to a greaV W i /d’p[-s*nedy this as mucjU as possible His Honor tfife Chief Judge wt tings -off tIMV mrt. rWV- M fittihgTOay he reasonably I prevents too grnat a concourse of natives as-j geinb iu)?. flUißbershave id remain idling about for a long period wait • ing for their case*- +o he investiga edj •Thd gftaA oaure oUv/LtftHij is the negotiating ifpr lau<|4 Mo# fhf - ; titll<| has been ascertained by the Native' Lanq Go,nrt. ■‘.‘ The ; N ” saya thd . report 4< have-ge net ail ly ; ®ixU3 Idea fn ‘wbairi title really exists, and would not ba inclined tp ißstitotoj jqr, at,lea4 |o ap. iuj quiry wherein they'hiid hb'fiii! show of Tight or chance of eu<-cess. No’t so with • Thesp are of cUaseq The man who is ideal} ing with the tona jide owners ; (J) the maq [ whp z thipks his .vendors .prpyy to he.enj man ‘wHoj thinks; hofhHg iof the cost, but that by proper or rather imj proper efforts f 4 the ■ may ba tp appear the : heater ./bailee,’; (or at' Ahe . worst “ the cause” may be bought up by hdriestef people desirous of saving themselves and expense. However different these persons they have the common characteristic} each will ‘M'adrk Vendors’ title ti the bitter end, or until, as to the last class} he is bought off. An amount of money has been sunk, aud a loss will not be submitted to without a struggle, \ development of Jhip feeling is 'found in 1 the regularity applications for a re-hearing folkfo* an adverse judgment, and the frequeridy 'With which such applications will for a consideration b« abandoned. To giw, howevwS to j

then* ptfeple ttwir. dtfe, it fes to be admitted that their efiaferpirirt h«# * hastened of//tends z the Court to <u extont think would teve .'Seen \afforoadhtofehy either W .wlrniiwat ” Etfil no wSy, howeveK of remedy.ng the evil onwjon-’d Jy for the purchase of carried o^* 7 before tho title thereto has been deter** mined. As pointed out in these columns recently, the necessity of frequent sittings of ‘ Ure'- CJirft 'is by Judge, as an important step. Courts held bftehtir ajid of shorter would get through a much greater amohnt "et ’lrixiihMM tlTa»ttaw'hcld''st kmg -w» toiwule-. and’of several months duration. The evils complained of it appears belong not so much to tfe By stem itself, as to this varying circumstances that surround it. - system the work of iicfettiwjfijg jhe sniff of tribal lands, is one demanding patience, The enhanced value land is obtaining excites keener competition and to aqquko ttu, anxiety lamj toiiftfji toQcountry, ands exercise philanthrophy may be guessed froip the statement in the report that ‘ ‘ Large area|B arc not only bought by associations, butfas I am info/isUd,Zauld 'PW to other companies, while the title is yet in every respect, the subject of speculation, the issue of i’hic.h t fought by agents with the associations’"money.* 1 thelbusiness of the Land Court, is conducted is favorably noticed, and it is also pointed outjthat, in a pouple ©f, y.ears f . the" .Native tUI| over all the Maori-land oC the country b/af be extinguished. The great work for the* future,,, will therefore, be sub-dividing lanfl and appointing etfdcesscrite to' dbceawed owiers—the latter a comparatively easy tas|c. From the tenor of the report no startling move in TNktifej 13#d ma|’, we think, be looked forward to during thii session.