NATIVE LANDS COURT.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1348, 28 August 1883, Page 3

NATIVE LANDS COURT.

Monday, Avgust 27. (Before their Honors Chief Judg? ti. E. M‘Donald) Judge Brookfield, and Native Assessor,) The Court opened at 10 ?.m. REHEARING CASES. ■ Maraetaha No, 2, and Other Blocks. • Hemi Waaka—l have tv/o things to a&y io *ho Cotirt. The first is that, se far as I am concerned, 1 object to any lawyers appearing in Court. Let the Maori conduct their own cases. Where Maoris are concerned, I ***y tel h** solicitors be allowed io appuan Jn lands where Europeans alone are concerned, the lawyers may step In j but, $0 far as relates io .questions where any arc concerned, let all lawyers be Jtofit cut, Xn cases of crigin&l claims, reStaling eases, and eub-divieions where Maoris are interested, let no lawyers be allowed to appear before the. Court. His Honor the Chief Judge—That question need not be gone into now. Parliament is now legislating on the subject. Aeini v, aaka—j merely express my wish, i so that wlmn the time arrives for claims in ' which I am interested to be dealt with, the Court will know that 1 object to the law »vers. . Another matter I have to sneak about is with respect to re-hearings. I nave heard that before we can have a re-hearing of certain cases we have t« deposit with the Registrar of the Court £3OO. The Chief Judge—That is so.

Hem! Waaka--That is all I have got to say, the Chiqf Judge- A here is the money? Bern! Waaka—The people who have applied for the re-hearing will have to find that. Tho Chief Judge- If the £3OO is not immediately forthcoming, [ will have to make the orders in the re-hearing cases. Hapi Kiniha— 1 am one of those parties Who applied for a re-hearing. The Chief Judge—Arc you prepared to pay £3OO ? Hapi Kiniha—lf the Court will consent to an adjournment, we will seek for the money. jht The Chief Judge -Can you give me any assurance—l would prefer the money to the ■ assurance—that the necessary fees will be obtained. Hapi Kiniha—l cannot say. The Chief Judge—ls it not the truth that you are pretty well assured in your own mind that yon are not going to produce the money ? Hapi Kiniha—We might be able to get

(the money. The Chief Judge—When ? Hepi Kiniha —I cannot answer the question. J cannot say the day or the time. Chief Judge—lf I give you until Kiursday ? ■Hapi Kiniha—l cannot say. ■Fhe Chief Judge—lf you deposit the ■ney on or before Thursday all well and I Hapi Kiniha—My reply to that is that I cannot say myself that I will be able to get the money. The Chief Judge—lf the money is not forthcoming by Thursday morning at ten o’clock we will consider that your re-hear-ing is at an end. In the meantime I will adjourn the cases until Friday, at two with the further order for them to adjourned until ten o’clock on Saturday, am not here by that time. If the money not deposited at the time stated I will the original decision*:. Pafatp, This re.hearing was put to the bottom of list, in order to allow arrangements to be between the parties Court then adjourned until two p.m. hour it was re opened before His Judge Brookfield and the Assessor, the original claims gazetted weie M over,