Native Land Purchases.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2993, 18 September 1878, Page 2

Native Land Purchases.

j The eompletibn df the-n'aUv^'JindTp'ur- . chases in this district.is.now making good progress, and a brief summary.,, of [ T the... Operations of the department ma^^otT prove upinieresting. : ■, Deeds, have, .-been g finished in favor of the Crown in respect to 28,997 acres, the final arrangementsi in"" respect to a large :portion;p|wbioh having > been completed during yesterday and today, and the negotiations-respecting 20,180 acres more' are nearly-completed. .There,are,also 130,000 acres ordered by fhe Native 1 >Ikndji Court tb be. vi^ed^ . m the. Crown, at its~Tecent session here, which require no fdrth»t de*d«;; Dafifa^ ihe; sitting of .the ,( ourt, the passing oil 115,000 acres, wbicn had b*en kniff^tdyi (including the Ohinemuri block of 100,000 acres) was adjourned for another sessibljp' but in the meantime the negotiations eea-— lierning the cession ■ of* Snel. Ohinemuri, block to the Crown are progressing in a highly '** sjakisfiwtorr manner, and sreat credit is dio tb the dTpTrtmenV f* thd iucoess of the negotiatioas np to the present Messrs'Mkckayi Grace/ Wilkinson md Dearie will proceed to Ohinemuri to« morrow to make arrangements with the Natives who. returned there some days ago.' In addition 'tb'ttfe inrv^ea H<>cks we have referred to a.bove, jthe department have in their hands'^,o96 WPat«tero md Piako, and some other blocks—the i urveys of which have~flbt yet been completed.. r The total ares; in the hands of the department in varidas sfctjki'Wfo^DO