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THE NATIVE LANDS COURT.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] 1' Alexandra, August. 2. $ Ttiß Native Lands Court will open for .*' "actual business to-day at Otorohanga. Several applications were made by different hapus to get the court adjourned elsewhere, where some accommodation could be obtained by those attending the com t from a distance. The matter was decided by Judgo Mair on Thursday last. The Taonui i sarty carried the day, and ao the court hits at their settlement. Why this should lw so it is hard to say, as there aye no conveniences of any kind for thono at a distance who have business there. They have to shelter themselves as they best can. Possibly Government think they will have fpwer owners to deal with when the lands shall have passed through the couit and they negotiate for their pm chase, as there is certain to be a considerable amount of iHnc-to whensomanv natives aie brought together at so cold a place, and in such an inclement neAion, Tho o>«urt official-* «iv> but little better off, a« even they cannot raise quarteis containing a fire-placo. Their uMois are- their only means of keeping warmth in themselves, and it is currently reported they never remove them 1 day or night. Wctere te Rerenga, Rewi, and other natives over-ruled the Native Committee, and would not, allow the European stotes to bo erected anywhere but upon the railway lino. There will be no less than six stores shortly opened at Otorobanga. I * Suppose those who are erecting them know what they are doin?, but to an outsider it . appears anything but a good speculation, as the natives generally appear to have little or no money, and that the store" already erected and doing business there are sufficient for tho trade going. •f The Whatiwhatihoe natives interested m the court went up yesterday, mine forty of .them. Tawhiao remained behind, and .*ay* he will not attend any court held "'"lt \% generally thought here that the Ngatimaniopos have only to ask and have anything they require from the present -Government. That this is not so, however, the following shows :— The Ngatimaiiiapoto sent a long telegram to the ftative Minister requesting that Major Mair should not sit as judge at the Otorohanga Court, on the ttfroiindfl that he wan a Waikato pakelia (insinuating he would be favourably inclined towards that tribe), and asking that Mr G. T. Wilkinson should be judge instead. This latter request was made, no doubt, on the supposition that the misapprehension between Mr Wilkinson, Tawhiao, and Major Te Wheoro, has not been, removed, and that in Mr Wilkinson they would have at least a sympathetic judge on the bench. Mr Ballance, however, curtly replied that Judge Mair had Tieen appointed, aud would preside at tha court. .

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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2196, 5 August 1886, Page 3

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THE NATIVE LANDS COURT. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2196, 5 August 1886, Page 3

THE NATIVE LANDS COURT. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2196, 5 August 1886, Page 3

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