THE LAND COURT AND NATIVES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1848, 10 May 1884, Page 2

THE LAND COURT AND NATIVES.

Our Kilnkilu coi respondent wiitrs:— The 1 bu->ines-, ot tho cmufc is piocoeding, but to ,111V, bal pailir^ inteiextod, it is \uy iniiJiteioshng Vciy few of the towspeople vnitit, .uid but little mtci o-t is exploded by the goneial public. A huge quanticv <if food in the shape ot tc.i, Migai, potato, and meat w.b pie-dented by some of tio business people to tho natnes, but with the pioveibi.il ingiatitudo of thc-o people, when it was all consumed, they wanted nioio, ,\\\<l wcie not ovei pleased when lefusocl Ie 1. icpoiti a d heio, .ur! on good authonty too, that some of the Cainbudge people subsenbed .1 lai»i} linn of money to Ik 1 uiort in the endow oiu to got the com t to th.it town again. The n.itne^ aie haul up, and by iudiaou>ly cucul.itins this moacv amongst them, it was expected tlioy would make applicat'on to the ]ud»e'. to ha\e the couit leni)\od fioni ln.iv. Their expectation-, as fai as the ipplic ttion is coiicmihhl WL-ie nvilislhl, l>ut the .-piilicants mot witli a lebaft wli mi told by the ]iul»e that the couifc not to be bought and sold like a bale of goods. The/ (Jainlu-id'-je pjople must be pietty haul up when they aie so an\iou-> to get tho couit again, or tlso plucking tho nitne pi|,e)ii jn'ist Ijj a \eiy pioritable occupation. The noble led man, howevei, i' not by any in "ins Jiickw.-nl m pliujvmg the i^akeha ((l^eon when he gets a chance of doing so. One pfvinun of the laeo otfeu'd to plead on belialf of the KilnkiMi business pcojilc agonist t!i» .ipplicu'it-. foi the umho\ il of the coutt, u they wou'tl gi\i a. fee often guineas II >ue\oi, his mild luqucst \\as not giant nl. .lohn ilaoii has learned tlie \\a\soi his ])il"-t.nijd biotlno.i, and a-,ked foi tli j f.ishionabb guinea insteid of the eonii)H>n-])laeo p mud. A gieit de>l ot .sympathy has li"'ii w i-,ted on the nalnes ; as a 1 ale they aie \eiy well able to take citeot them, eh es. It is snd the l ( 'uio peans ha\e taimhtthem deceit find U.okeiy, but an\on • who is acriu uutod with them know pM f eutly well th"y ha\e i in tin il .(.ptitude fin- tlioso litik 1 .i«onii)lisLments, but 1 run bound to admit that whui di--l>la^mg tlie.r vices iv thui doalinur-. with Eui >p'3i'is— that hin la, id ti in- 'ttions — they only fight the lattei with then own weapons.