LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Wednesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2014, 4 June 1885, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Wednesday.

TnKX.ituo Land Settlement I'iiH to be jncoiitcd to r.uliaiiient is now completed ,md will be distiibuted shoitly. The bill juosidi's mc.vis by which native lands can be disp wed nf either by wiy of sale 01 le.ise undei the land l.uv* of the Colony. After they h.ive passed through the N.itue Land Court owners of a block of land will Iliac powei to appoint from among them>ehes, if they are eight or more in numbei, .1 committee consisting of <<e\en , poisons, who will ha\c tho light to dc.il with tho land, subject to ceit.un power-, of contiol on tlie p.ut of the owneis. If the numbei i-,sc\eu 01 U' s s, then the owneis thfin-flves will haxo tho jmwer of committee. Jlnnid-. will be constituted for certun defined di-tncti, and will have power, upon tlie lecummend.itionof the committee, to take l.md <uid use it for settlement pmpnsei in a way MiniLn to the operations of the waste lands hoards. Commissioners of these bo.iids will lia\e large powen entrusted to them, but always subject on the one hand to the lecommendtition of the committee, and on the other hand to the regulations of the Governor-in-Council, bringing into foice land Uvws under which the land ■w ill be administered. Expedition is now being used in putting lands though tho Native Land Courts with a Mew of biiiigmg them speedilj under the operation of the bill when passed.