[By Telegraph. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Napier, This Day.
The Supremo Court has been occupied for the last three days by a peculiar case. It is an action brought by Mr. Robson, a runholder, to eject a number of natives from eighty acres on his run, of which they hold possession. Robson bought the place with a Land Transfer Act title, and when he took it over a few natives were squatting on it, bnthe was told that they were there on sufferance, and would go when requested. Later on, it transpired that these natives claimed to have an interest in the land, and they refused to leave unless compelled to do so by the Court. The defence shortly is that the defendants were the successors of one Hera, who had never parted with his interest in the block, but whose signature to a deed had been forged by another Maori, and on that deed the existing title is based. The case is not yet concluded. Auckland. This Day. T. S. Janes, tho jeweller and fancy goods dealer who was arrested on a charge of setting fire to his premises in Victoria-street, in December last, was tried yesterday for the alleged offence at the Supreme Court, when a verdict of Not Guilty was returned.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 61, 12 March 1892, Page 2
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