APPEAL COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4414, 9 May 1893, Page 2

APPEAL COURT.

The Wairarapa Lake Trouble, (By. Telegraph,—Presa Association.) (Wbtohoioh, Monday. The case of Pitipi t. Matthews is being argued in she Court of Appeal to-day. Thie is & case in which tbs question j» railed aa to wlwthsr the Sooth Wairarapa Bi»er Board hiva power to Veep permanently open the channel connecting the Wairarapa Lais with tlio sea. I«ica| is oa Native land, &sd at certain seasons ih&cfcannel becomes cloaca by a bar or spit formed by the act on of the m, and the Lake riiea m the let-eb, overflowing portions of the neighboring |»nda ofaettten. Tka Burer Board deurea to conetraci « permanent obaaatl through tbe apti. Thia would &eep; the Lake pemaneatly at few l# ye ], and interfere ieno»»ly with the rights of iaUog claimed byjtbe Natives. The auei •ion is, whether the Public Woeka Acta, Oouaty Otmneiig Ant Biw Boards Acta, gire power *7 ike Board to ! so interfere wiu, natural ceaise of things, Ta««Hsa is oils by the Natives ggafeset tits agents of the Board for tmpata. «p«sis2 am har-beea ss&ted hx «Im Supreme Coartaad yemored into the is Wwaaiderad by a foil Beoob. MsMsafor the Natives sad Mr Bell lot the Board.