NATIVE LANDS COURT, CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1686, 26 April 1883, Page 3

NATIVE LANDS COURT, CAMBRIDGE.

Yi'SThMJAY.— [Hcforc their Honour"! Chief Judge Mncdonald, Judge Puckcy, and Assessor Leaf.] Tie Court, the Lawyers and the Land Jobbers. Thb Court re-opened at ten o'clock this morning. < At the opening of the court, Dr Bitller rose and said that when the Whaknnmrn judgment was delivered on the 13th inst. he had ventured in court to record his protest sigainst the judgment then given, and to state that he would advise hla clients to appeal to Parliament. He was sure their Honours, 'would believe he had acted on that occasion in a strict sense of duty to his clients, with a desire te do what was right, and that he then spoke under a due sense of responsibility, and that he had been most careful, while expressing his views, to express at the same time respect for the court itself. He was sorry to find that his remarks liar! been construed into disiespect to-M-ards the court. While he could not withdraw a woid that lie had said about the judgment, and while be did not wish to alter or vary the advice lie had then given to his clients in respect thereto, he wished to say that nothing was further from his mind at the time lie made the remarks referred to than to cast any reflection upon his Honour, for whom he always had entertained the highest possible respect, cither in his public or private capacity. It had been said that his reference to" Parliament when addressing the court on the Whakamaru judg ment was of the nature of a threat to the court. He hardly thought, however, his Honour would need an a^stuanee fr -in him that bitch was not the case— that the remarks which he then made were not so intended. His object was meicly to assure the court that any advice lie should give his clients would be; • keep within legal and constitutional means. He did not think his Honoui would need any assuiance from him that he enjoyed his (Dr Buller's) fullest confidence ; and he thought it proper that the natives should hear w hat he had to say on the subject. He had, consequently, taken that opportunity of saying that a wiong construction had been put upon the icmaiks he had thought lit to address to ,Tiis Honour on the occasion refci i ed to. [ His Honour Chief Judge Macduiiald, in reply, said he vas quite sine there was nothing in Drßullefs lcmarks that had led him to think that any disiespect was meant to be east, or lellcction made upon the couit. It was quite tine that he (Dr Bullci) had said what he had honestly thought— that lie did not agice with the judgment. It was most unfortunate that he should have agreed with' that judgment, for, &o far as ordinary nienbiires went, it was the last lesort of his clients. He had known a gieat many judgments to be di«ippio\ed of, which had sunived to this day ; and, in his experience, both at the bar and on the bench, he had never known a judgment to.be appioved of by the losing party. He conlessed he felt gratified with Dr Buller in the expressions he had used, that nothing in the shape of disrespect was meant to the com t. The remaiks, however, he must say, suggested to his mind an appeaiance of disiespect, but now he certainly acquitted them of such, and he felt quite sure they were not .so intended. It was f nothing that Dr Buller had said that the court complained of or felt aggu'eved at, but it was at the mere fact of his having said anything at all. As to the statement that Dr Buller had advised his clients that they had other legal means of redress, he wos quite sure that the country would be thankful that he (Dr Buller) had averted all the contingencies and dangers of another cis il war. Now, when they were upon personal matters, he would like to say one or two words in relation to the atmosphere of the district which surrounded the court. Last Saturday lie had spent a very pleasant time upon the Auckland racecourse, and while luminating theie he could not help making a comparison between that place and this racecourse (the hind conit.) 'Ihatiacecoiirse (the Auckland cour«e) he wmild say, in comparison with this, was a place of' ti ust, condense and innocence. The compaiison with the laco^owsc, however, did not end theie. The people heie, who, befoie titles are established, invest their money, arc exaitly m the same position us the the bookmaker and betters, who invest their money upon the lioises befoie the race is inn. Theie was not a suspicion or movement, or a subterfuge bookmaker's resort to that, he was sure, they would not find carried on by persons engaged running the lands before these couits. Even the very jockeys that are put up to run the hoises are not beyond suspicion on this laeecourse. However, theie was this difference between them and the jockejaon the Auckland course, that on the formci they never pulled their horses. On the contiiiiy they lan them to (loath ; ami even when they were dead they go in for a lesuiiection of the corpse (laughter). He dare say lie had put it strongly, but he had less hesitation in doing so, because as he was assiucd by Dr Buller the ill efl'eet of this feclinu, as it has been caused to affect the couit, has been levelled not against him but against his colleagues. In conclusion, he only hoped that what he Ind said Mould have some good effect upon those engaged in the land transattioiib connected wHh the court. He would ask them to cease to think that all w hon« they had to do business with weie totally devoid of all honesty and good fcelin«_'. If he believed a tithe of what had been said to him theie was not a man amongst them engaged in the land business who, by virtue of his conduct, was not fit fora paol or lunatic asylum, 'and no doubt if he bad heaid what had been said about himself the piobability was that he also might bo considered a fitting resident for either place. Tin's tei mi nated the matter. Karanama then addie&scd the Court. He wa& engaged in the easo then about to be bi ought forwaid, and would ask that the Liwyeis be ruled out of Court. They had done a good deal of work in the other blocks that bad been bi ought before the Court, and not that they should be made to withdraw. If Ngatitaukawa should call their lawyer to stand up he should call loudly for him to leave the Court. The Maoris should now be allowed to cany their own cases thiough the Court. Harry Symonds, in reply, said the lawyers had been employed in the cases which have hitherto passed before the Court, and he was not agreeable they should be ruled out now. Let the hapiti, exercise their own freedom in the matters of employing lawyers to represent them. Another native spoke in support of Karanama's suggestion. His Honour said the Court would rule the lawyers out nor in. If engaged lawyers to represent them they would come, and if they did not engage them, why they would not come. It ■was for the people themselves to decide whether they should have lawyers or not. The Court then proceeded on the Waotu South case.

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