HAWERA.
November 29
Further progress has been made by tho trustees respecting the leasing of tke West Coast settlement reserves, he having concluded an agreement with the leading natives of the Ngatimanihiakai hapu, Titokowaru's tribe, for the leasing of 2400 acres of their lands. The Chief Surveyors of Taranaki paid the surveyors who are at work on the reserves a visit on Monday with a view of expediting their work.
Some trouble has arisen at Taiporohanui with regard to the right of certain natives to lands. The matter is to be settled according to native custom in such matters, Mr Mackay having arranged that the leading men of the tribe, with the assistance of Hone Pihama, shall hold a meeting and settle in his presence the rights of the disputants. When the korero was going on the wife of the alleged aggressor threatened to burn down the house on the land in dispute—a weatherboard house of four or five rooms— and had actually set fire to it, but Mr Mackay interfered and had it put out before any damage was done. It seems this is not the first time she has burned a house down under similar circumstances.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3554, 29 November 1882, Page 3
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