LARGE LAND PURCHASES IN NORTHERN WAIROA.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5739, 18 February 1876, Page 3

LARGE LAND PURCHASES IN NORTHERN WAIROA.

A coiuir.-iVONDLVr wiitiug from Kaihu on the !)th inst nit, says:— "A sitting of the N itive Lands Oouit was opened here on the 7th to adjudicate upon two matters of consideiable importance to this purt of the North, if not to the colony. The subject of inquiiy was 80,000 or 90,000 acres of land, mid this inquiry had been postponed fioni time to time. Aftei sitting foi thiee oi four <li\s the C'ouit awaidod the Waipoua block tit 17,000 acios to the Chief Teopua, and the Mungonui block of some 47,000 'icies to the Chief l'.iroie. Imine diately aftei the decision of the Lmd (Joint, the blocks weie aci[iiiied by tlio Gcneial (Jo \cininent.itiv price varying fiom Is. 3d. to Is hi. pel acie. The pin chase is legardod as a most siiLcissful one The negoti itions hid Wen bp-pin by Mi lSiissenden, nndweio concl'idc it l>y All 1'iei'ce, with the ud of Mi. Ki mp, Civil Ccimmissionoi foi the distnct Some other blo> kt of e\celli nt land weie aKojusmd thiough the Couit, mil tlio purchase of u 1 ii'^e block in M inutile iln i distnct, wlnoh hul ho'-n picvioiislv i Ijudn itod ii['i>i), wd" ronchiilo.l, and tin pmlitiu moiu^ [Mid tn the nntno (iv non I Ir'm piucli h'm compiHn Homo of the biMtlind in tlu« \oitli Alto h 'ethi j , tH'tw.'i n 17,010 md U8,0.)0i.i (ash w.i uuil o\ei bv the Government to tin. nativen "

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