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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 51, 24 October 1863, Page 6

The safe mode of swimming rivers on horseback should be held in remembrance by everyone. Take off heavy boots and heavy coat, and strap them to the saddle; take your feet out of the stirrups, throw the reins over the horse's neck, and by no means check him. If danger is apprehended, slip off the saddle, and hold firmly by the tail of the horse, who will ninety-nine times out of a hundred, carry you safely to terrafirma. When a horse is checked whilst swimming, his hind legs go under his fore, and he falls backward, which usually terminates fatally to the rider.— Sydney Morning Herald. A new light has recently been thrown upon the Maori titles to land.—" For along time past, says the Courier des Etats Unis" "the means of cheating one's neighbor has oeen a subject ofstudy everywhere. Our lawsuits thus last for generations, and very often afford clear and appreciable results only to the lawyers. A New Zealand chief has just simplified the procedure. He had taken up his residence upon a piece of land, his right to which was contested. ' I have an undoubted right to the property/he observed, • as I ate the preceding owner.'