COURT OF APPEAL.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8478, 9 May 1893, Page 5

COURT OF APPEAL.

(FBfB3ASSOCIATION •JELBaRAM.) WELUNGTON, May a The Wairarapa Lake coae occupied the Court of Appeal to-day, the Oh lei Juatioe and Justices Richmond, Dennieton, CoiioUy, and Ward presiding, Tlio cane was one IB wliich Piripi, Tβ Maari, and others soughl to restrain Alfred Matthews and Robert Barton, as representing the South Wftirarapa River Board, from opening the Wa|» rarapa Lake. It was removed from the Supreme Court by the consent of tbi« parties. Mr Menteath appeared for the Natives, and Mr Bell for the Board. The question involved is one of title and Native rights, and of the effect upon the title of the statutory powers vested in the River Boards. The matter has been the cause of annually recurring trouble in the Wairarapa for forty years, where, owing to the Notivea, to preeerve their tinheric?, refusing to allow the Wairarapa Lake to ba opened at the , Spit, the low-lying lands of the settlors around it were made liable to flood. The plaintiffs ask for £493 damagea for trespass by the defendants aud their employees on the occasion of. their entering upon the Spit claimed by the plaintiffs for the purposeof opening the lake, for an injunction rcatrain* ing the defendants and any other persona from interfering with and destroying the ,iiahery rights, for the costa of tho action, and for euch other relief as the Court may see fit-