Survey Stopped.

Auckland Star, Volume XI, Issue 3161, 6 September 1880, Page 2

Survey Stopped.

We learn that tho natives havo stopped the survey proceeding ou Mr Firth's ground, at Mangaware. Tho lino being laid off was to straighten tbo boundary between Messrs Firth's, Wilson's, und Ring's land. Tho natives claim that the laud referred to was taken from them wrongfully, and leased by natives who hud no right to it. Mr King was on tho ground at the time, and tho natives agreed that tho surveyors' Instruments should be left in his chargo till ten o'clock tho next day, on tho understanding that tho survey should not go on meanwhile. Mr Stubbin, tho surroyor, loft for tho purpose ot seeing Mr Firth at Mntanutii, but when he reached there ho found that Mr Firth had left for town that morning. Ho returned next day and found all the natives waiting in full expectation that Mr Firth would come himself. When they found that Mr Firth had gone, tbey went to Mr Rings'and demanded that he should hand over tho instruments to the surveyor, their object being to get posse •- sion of tbcni. After a long korcro, they consented to nllow the tools to go to Matamnta. Mr Stubbin to icturn to Cambridgo, so that tho survry could not go on. There wero about a dozen natives, and they behaved very quietly but with determination, i