THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2941, 19 July 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1878.

We hear that the Wellington Natives who took their departure the other day have gone away thoroughly dissatisfied with the Government. They came up some time ago to attend a silting of the Lands Court at Cambridge, which for some reason or other was postponed. The Natives waited on for the adjournment, aud when the time arrived the sitting of the Court was again postponed; so, tired with ' being so long away from home, and inconvenienced by the expense to wlrcli they Lave been put, they have gone home thoroughly disgusted. Some of these Natives are in comfortable circumstances about Otaki, having farms and runs to look after; .and besides having had to neglect their homesteads for some time, they have b"eti put to an expense not less, it is said, than £1000, which sum tbey intend suin^ the Government for, having retained the services of an eminent firm of Auckland lawyers to lake up their case. While we should be the first to deprecate uny pampering of the Natives in attendance at the Lands Court, we cannot refrain from saying that when natives show a disposition to avail themselves of the Courts established in the Colony and to act in accordance with the law, they should be treated with the same consideration as other suitors. There may have been very good reasons for repeatedly postponing the Cambridge Court, as no doubt there were ; but there is no doubt thct those 'Natives consider they Lave been hardly used, and have so much faith in the justice of their claim upon the Government for compensation as to commence an action for damages.