NATIVE LAND COURT, CAMBRIDGE. (Yesterday.-Before Their Honors Judge Williams and Judge O'Brien.)

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1621, 23 November 1882, Page 2

NATIVE LAND CO URT, CAMBRIDGE. (Yesterday.-Before The i r Honors Judge Williams and Judge O'Brien.)

Rewi Applies 1 to j tiave the Court Adjourned to Kihikihi. The Court having^b'een adjourned in the morning', ifc"\vas re-oponed at 2 o'clock, to hear an application by Rewi for the adjournment of the Court to Kihikihi. Rewi, in making application said : I apply to have the Mangatautari, , Manuka-Tutahi, Tutahi, Tatua, aucl Tutukau blocks adjourned to Kihikihi for adjudication. The reason being that when we, the Hauhaus, come here to Cambridge we shall suffer for want of, food. lam a very poor man, and now ask that when the cases at present before the Court are finished, the blocks I have mentioned shall be adjourned to Kiki kihi. It is for the Court to say at what time they will adjourn. We, the Hauhaus, ! are new to this kind of thing, the Native Lands Court. I, therefore, apply that we the Hauhaus, shall have our cases heard at Kihikihi, that we should become conversant with the mode of procedurein the Land Conrt. Aperahatna te Kame, a claimant in the Tutukau and Tatua blocks, said that both those blocks were situated in the Taupo district. The principal claimants in these blocks resided there. It would, therefore, not be right to have these lands adjourned for adjudication to Kihikihi. Aperahama Tuatara said he Mas not willing to have his lands at Mauugatautari adjourned to Kihikihi. Let all my lands, including Maungatautari, be heard here. Timata also objected to Rewi's application being granted. Had he said he wished the land to be taken into the presence of Tawhiao, and heard there, he should have had no objection. Haia Tioriori said it would be in no way right to grant Rewi's application. Hori Wirihana said he approved of Rewi's action for the adjournment of the court to Kihikihi. At the time the re- I quest for adjournment of these lands j was first made, an application was also then made to have the cases heard at Kihikihi. Hapefca Waka, another claimant, said lie built a house at Mangatautari for the purpose of having the lauds adjudicated on there. He looked upon Cambridge as the coffin for all the lands brought there to be adjudicated. He objected, also, to Rewi's application. Hatutai, another claimant;, said his \vish was that these cases should be heard at Cambridge. He, as one of the applicants, did not wish them to be taken anywhere else. Potato said he disapproved of Manga's application. He objected to Kihikihi, because his settlement was at Mangatautari. He now applied to have the case heard at Cambridge. Those poor people who have claims in Mangatautari, and living here, have got their food here. Wirihana said food could easily be conveyed from the native settlements to Kihikihi, as the roads were good. It would be impossible for the people of Cambridge to support the Hauhaus, whereas Manga said he would bo able to support them if they went to Kihikihi. Rewi said he would leave it to the discretion of the Court. His Honor Judge Williams asked the natives to leave the consideration of the application until the case was called before the Court. Then they could renew the application. His Honor Judge Williams informed the natives that there would be no Court to-morrow, (Thursday) us he had private Comt business to consider. Judgment would be given in the YVaotu Block on Friday.