LAND TRANSACTIONS IN THE NORTH.
Tlie New Zealand Herald fos%stroi^ article on Ihe Jones case, eondefmmg forcibly the action of tbe Governinenf an! Parliament and pointing out ho^angeroug to tbe freedom of the Preaspuch a system of prosecufi »n would be |/jcarried out. It names Messrs BusseU|j&>rrin Tothill, Brissenden, the bte.MljVßu.-k---laud, and J. S. Macfnrlane. as l>ein.r concerned in the purchfiw? of a q-iarter of « million acres of Maori L-uji i» Wu.katn, the purchase of which was stopped by theronrderof Sullivan in 1873 The Government afterwards paid £3>fi29> to Mr Whilaker as agent for the parties Tlio artiefe ba» eaiised a great (Jeal of^alk ii> Auckland, Mr Whitaker w«j not a partner in th*» land transactions, but bis pnrtner, Mr Thomas Russell, who wasalwßg»charge(J with h-tving great influence* with tho Vogel 1 Government, is the on» referred to by the Herald-— Wellington. Argus.
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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 71, 21 September 1877, Page 2
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143LAND TRANSACTIONS IN THE NORTH. Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 71, 21 September 1877, Page 2
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