THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1877.
The Native Lands Court has closed its silting in Shortland, and it is generally understood that, as far aa advancing the Government land purchases, the Court hi a done nothing. A number of private purchases, embracing large areas, and in which it is said persons high in authority are principally interested, have been advanced a stage; some of them probably having had the finishing stroke-of the Court put on them ; but the claims in which the Government are interested have been adjourned to Ohinemuri, where prob-, ably rival claimants will squabble over their rights until the judges of the Court will be prone to adjourn in disgust. The discussion which will probably arise next session of Parliament over the new Native Lands Act (the provisions of which we have not yet had time, to examine) ought to be instructive. The new Bill should be a perfect measure, and re- ' quire very little.tinkering—that is, if the object of the Bill is to facilitate the acquisition of land from the Natives, for at this business, if report speaks truly, the father of the Bill is an adept. But, in considering the constitution o: Native Lands Courts, it would be well for hon; members of the legislature to bbte ;<.-- some information as to ;the business done by the present Courts, and who have been most benefited—the Natives, the Government, or private speculators. If the sittings of the Courts in other places have been as barren of results in promoting settlement as they have been in this district during the last three or four years, they might as well not have been held, for the extinction of the Maori" title over lands wldch have been looked upon as likely to be available for settlement seems as far off as ever, unless Mackay at the Ohinemuri Court should be more successful than the most sanguine ■ expect. x ,
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2635, 19 June 1877, Page 2
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326THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1877. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2635, 19 June 1877, Page 2
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