NATIVE LANDS COURT, CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1623, 28 November 1882, Page 2

NATIVE LANDS COURT, CAMBRIDGE.

6 YesjTEliday.— [Before their Honors Judge O'Brien, and Juttgc Williams.] The Court opened at 10 o'clock.

The Whakamaru Re-hearing. The presiding Judge aimouuced tli.it, in consequence of the uon arrival of the a&scssor llakcna Wi Kaitaia, the Whakamavu case nm&t stand adjourned till the following morning. The interpieter read a letter from several of the native claimants in Whakamaru-Maungaiti, raising objections to Ratere Wi Kaitaia, and protesting again-t liis acting' as asses&or on the hearing of the block in which they were interested, on the grounds of partiality manifested at the sitting of thcOhjnemutu Court, and a leaning towards the claims of Arakatera and Aperahamo'Te Kume. The seveial signatories to the letter were then called, and answered a& being present. A few of them spoke in support of their objection. Aperabame Te Kume replied that three different assessors had now been named, two of them had at once been set aside by the Court on the ground of relationship with ,one , 01; o.thor of the claimants'. He now thought <as ho, objec-tion-had been made at the time when the name of Wi Kaitara, a man not connected oy any ties of blood or of marriage with either side, was first brought forward, it was now too late to raise^any objection. After some further speech by various parties, the presiding judge aaid he didnot complaiu of the objections for the mere fact of objecting ; but for leaving their objections to the very last moment when the new assessor was actually to>' iJHTiye from tb.c n)p^ H dig,tant, quarter of the island that very evening. "The Court, he said, did not desire to force Wi Kaitaia or any other assessor upon them ; but the Court, he woujd tell them, mlist meet 'and Wi ''Kaitaia ' must sit within it. If any objection was ,then' really pressed, the Court would then consider ib, and if maintained, the case must then of necessity bo adjourned until after thp clcjso^f'tbe year. ' < The case was. adjourned , to-morrow (Tuesda^) mormngV'SO o'clock; '" ' '

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