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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3964, 12 September 1881, Page 2

The Patetere Association would appear to consider the title to their lands completed, notwithstanding the steps taken by Sir George Grey and others to test the same, and the very unfair means by which such a vast estate was secured, if we may judge from a telegram in another column, which says that two gentlemen are en route for England to secure settlers for the block of land held by the Association. Mr Halcome, one of the gentlemen named, has been a most successful disposer of land in the English market, the Eielding settlement being chiefly floated by him. In such hands we may anticipate a successful result, and before many years we may witness a large population in the country lying between the Waikato and Taupo districts. It is probable likewise that advantage! will be taken of the provisions of the Sailway Construction Bill, and a line of railway built from the termination of the Waikato line, running towards the centre of the island. We have always written strongly on the nefarious manner in which these lands were secured, yet we cannot but see that the settlement of the country, and the prosperity of the island will be promoted, by the location of a large white population, in, as it were, the centre of the Maori territory. The advance of settlement, the cultivation of the waste lands of the colony, and the construction of a line of railway through a country until of late in the hands of hostile native tribes, cannot but tend to the advancement of the whole colony, and will be of the greatest advantage to the province of Auckland ; so that good will eventually result, although injury has been done a\t the present time to the estate of the crown, and the people have been robbed of a part of their patrimony.