A MAORI WILL CASE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 108, 8 May 1908, Page 7

A MAORI WILL CASE.

JUDGMENT OF THE LAND COURT

[PREfiS ASSOCIATION.]

AUCKLAND, May 7, Judge Edgar gave the judgment of ■the Native Land Court to-day in the Maori will case in which Henare Kaihau, M.P., was one of the legatees. The real contest, his Honour said, was not so much whether Kaihau was to obtain the property mentioned in the will as whether the aspersions thrown on his character; in connection with the execution of the will could be cleared away. It had not been shown that the testatrix was mentally incapable of making her will, that she did so under undue influence from Kaihau. His Honour held it proved that she understood that she was leaving a share of her property to Kaihau. The will was upheld over such part of the property as passed under it.