MR BALLANCE IN THE SOUTH.
(United.Peess Association.) Chmstchubch, this day. Mr Ballance visited the Kaiapoi Native Pah to-day. The Maories presented an address, comparing him to the visit of the White Crane, a rare event, and described him as the harbinger of summer. They requested redress of several grievances in regard to land, and the Minister said Government had concluded that vesting native lands in trustees was a bad system jn practice, and he would' intrqduce a Bill to proviso such laijds bo vested in the Public Trustee. He did not wish to see one or two native families acquiring too much land- .Native grants would be issued at once wherever they legally could be, and he promised: to see that suitablo grants ot good land ' should Ws'ebutydtoaw'aaUvtee. ,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2233, 2 March 1886, Page 2
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128MR BALLANCE IN THE SOUTH. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2233, 2 March 1886, Page 2
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