AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4458, 19 April 1883, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. It is stated that the native meeting at Te Kuiti has passed a resolution that Mr Bryce be allowed to go through, but that ha was not to be allowed to make a survey until they were quite clear about how their lands were to be dealt with. Tawhiao will soon be present at the meeting. The Natives Beserves Act, which Mr Bryce caused to have passed last session, and which he was very anxious to bring into operation over lands in the King conn try, was brought up, but the natives would have nothing to do with it, as they were afraid if they gave a piece of land to the Government to deal with, that Ministers would issue a proclamation tying up large districts, as they have done with land between Eotorua and the Waikato. Mr Bryce and party arrived at Otorongaha on Tuesday. A railway can be cheaply {constructed to that point. Wi Pere and others met Mr Bryce as delegates from the Te Kuiti meeting; they stated that the meeting had decided on a petition to Parliament asking it to amend the law dealing with native land. The natives did not seem quite clear about what they wanted ; but the nature of the proposals are as ollows : —The chiefs find they are losing influence as lands are sold, and they wish to prevent those willing to sell from so doing. They would have it that where land is held in common, the majority should have power to prevent individnalisation of the title. Tawhiao with 200 followers arrived at Cambridge. Mr Sheehan made a speech of welcome, saying that the King had seen Europeans and natives living in harmony at Wanganui and elsewhere, and recommended him to do likewise. Tawhiao made no reply. . Yesterday Ten of the men of the ship Warwick, from London, were arrested for mutinous conduct. The late Edmond Costley's estate, esti* J mated at £135,000, is divided among seven public institution's. Endeavors will be made to get the legacy duty (over £10,000) revoked, as the amounts are going to public instutions. He only made the will two nights before his death. In the case of Stone v. the Commissioner of Customs, arising out of the seizure of the barque Gazelle under the Customs Act, Judge Gillies overruled the plaintiff's demurrer. The case will probably come on again at the civil sitting of the Supreme Court.