A little cliquo in tho House is hont on making the proposed Native Bills of the Government as unworkable as possible. It is a curieus cirenmstanco that this clique includes such members as Messrs Smith and Cadman, who have so largely benefited by leasing an immense area of native land in the Seventy-mile Bush. They sco nothing inconsistent in now joining a cliquo which proposes to limit tho power of people to buy or lease native lands. Thia limit it is suggested should be 5000 acres in the case of purchase, and 15,000 acres in tho case of leasehold. We arc not at all sure that it is competent for Parliament to make any such limitations. The Maoris, by the treaty of Waitangi, are recognised as the owners of tho lands . held by them; they are also acknowlodged to be British
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5267, 10 July 1888, Page 2
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