NATIVE APPELLATE COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 130, 19 October 1912, Page 6

NATIVE APPELLATE COURT.

, NEW PLYMO-UTFL &TTINC. ' ; The Native Appellate \Q6\ni -yesterday morning delivered, two reserved judgments, the first being in.connection with the compensation allotted for certain Patea reserves, In this' case'the appellants asked that the matter'be again referred to the Native Land Court in order to iillgw .bring forward further evidence. The judgment of the appellate Court, after carefully previewing the evidence proposed'to be "tendered, went on to point out that it'did not'consist of new evidence, nofc m- the possession of appellants, or. that could not have been obtained by them,, at the time of the first trial;; and that, "even had that been the case,,it"was not of such a character that had it'he'en given before 'the Native Land Court that tribunal .would have been likejy to have come to a different conclusion, The appeal. was dismissed, with £5 costs.

After the judgment had bedri delivered, Mr. Hutchen, who appeared'for the appellants, expressed his satisfaction at the fact that the Appellate' Court was laying down the same principles in cases of this nature as. those", folio wed by the Supreme Court.,

The second ease was air appeal from the decision of the Native 'Land Court granting probate of ( the will of Matuakorc Tinanga, deceased, on the grounds that the deceased was, not. of sufficient mental capacity to make a will, aiid that the will had been executed while the testatrix was subject tnfundue influenca This appeal was also dismissed, with £5 costs. Mr. Marslial]_and Mr, Hutchison, both of Wanganui,-appeared fop the appellants and respondents "respectively. The will affects. very, variable lands in the Manganui-o-tc-ao and Raetihi disfcrloti. ■:■:■' -.-..