GISBORNE.
This day.
An important sitting of the Native Lands Court is now being held by Judge Symonds at Tologa Bay. The principal business is the passing of certain blocks of land of a' total area of seventy thousand acres, which are under negotiation by the Government, Mr R. J. Gill, under Secretary of theT Land Purchase Department, is at present endeavoring to conclude the transactions' formerly entered into by Mr J. A. Wilson. The Court and the native claimants are at issue, and a difficulty has arisen through the latter including miners as owaers in certain blocks gazetted as under negotiation by the Government, and the Court refusing to admit minors whose parents were.liying, incqnsejquence of .such decisioa the Chief WLP^re-informed the Court tbat all blocks would have tobe withdrawn from hearing had he not pledged himself to the Government to try to get them passed. The court temporarily adjourned until the difficulties with the., natives are adjusted.. A large nunxber jof cases we're adjtmrnea 1 siriediel ti'-i*• j
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3147, 20 March 1879, Page 2
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170GISBORNE. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3147, 20 March 1879, Page 2
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