COURT OF APPEAL.
[Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Sept, 1. The Appeal Court delivered judgmenb in the case of Hohepa Wi Neera. v. Willis and others. The plaintiff, a member of the, Ngatitoa tribe, fought to have the. Crown grant of the Porirua Native Unserve to the Bishop of Wellington and his successors upon trust, for the purpose of a school declared null and void, and certain Natives named declared successors. Tha Court unanimously expressed the opinion that the case had been brought upon a misconception of the effect of the decision of the Privy Council in Tarnaki v. Baker. In this case the Crown grant implied a Native duty which had been duly extinguished, and behind which the Court could not go. A further point was that a delay of fifty-four years was fatal. Judgnient was given for the defendant, with costs on the highest scale. Leave was given to appeal to the Privy Council, TheCourt adjourned to Sept, 19 'for the dc* livery of further judgments.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12910, 2 September 1902, Page 2
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