DIED FROM OVERDOSE OF NATIVE LANDS COURT.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 147, 7 July 1883, Page 242

DIED FROM OVERDOSE OF NATIVE LANDS COURT.

There is a.good BfcpVy, aboili -Ai'ekqJ^ra has* " gone bust," as they say in respect to cotinnoai trad cam on, but " boea compelled to succumb tothe force ot" circumstances " as is said of big swells - who collapse for tens of thousands. Arekatera.. has died iinancially.^t'an oVerd6sebf Native L&n^. Court. When tHe? Patetere Court was aitbing: tins distinguished;m«!7i2ir« cut.a splendid dash r., revelling in champagne, good dinners, fine clothes,, horses and saddles for himself, and crinolines, pullbacks, and high-heeled boots in galore for his• numerous wives and concubines.. The publicans, sinners, and storekeepers of Cambridge smiled 'on* Arekatera. The lawyers native interpreters, and. bummers patted Arekatera on the back, and exclaimed " Kapai!" The decoys haunted hhra with deeds, and pressed him over the P.B. to^ attach bis signature just a3 a matter of form, you. " know. Arekatera was too "downy" to aigiii deeds; but he appended his aristocratic signJ man mil to a goodly number of 1.0.U.'5., P.JNVsaiid orders for goods. ' , — . . ■■»• — Bnblolt one day be discovered tliat, a ring of land-jobbers had bought up hia paperjvnd were using it as a leyer to compel him to sign away

• ■•-r J iF = ■■ ■ : — : ~ : ~ s^fiw/larid. When he was obdurate they gave the *-ser'ew a turn, and got judgment in the local Cdurt ■\ against; him'; they, gave it another turn by takifig' ] out judgment summonses ; gajve it another twist {by clapping him in durance vile— ruin and desolation to a. chief 's mana— and • finally fixed him in a tight place by compelling bim to. sign those /deeds. Then, jfpr a britef space the sun of pros(petity again shone, refulgentiy on . Arekatera. t^ainpagh'e once more flowed,; 'his qiiondam perse_jK&to'rs shook'h'im by the hand and wept- on his WgB&B&i and Areketera .began, to 'imagine that the secret-of ; human felicity was comprised in Hoping t6 gaol^and^ignibg deeds.. Bu{sow comes B'the inevitable Nen^esis^Arekaiera'.haS filled his P" Bch'edule. He was Bn'e , of the largest; landowners i in the district, and'now he'is laiidless. , Kapai ! j