WAIKATO LANDS COMPENSATION.
Since the 22nd February, the Lands Compensation Court has been sitting at Port Waikato, assiduously getting through the claims of friendly Maoris. The business was expected to be closed on Tuesday, aud the judges, being required at courts to be held elsewhere, have had to put off the claims on the land to the east of the river Waikato till another place and time. The coast land betweeu Waikato and Raglan has been mostly allowed to the friendlies. About twofifths, or 60,000 acres, are being taken as the proportion owned by the rebels. The Whangape, Opuatia, and Onewhero, which all belonged to the Ngatipou, a very few of whom remained friendly, has been all confiscated, with the exception of some 6,000 or 7,000 acres. The Court was, on Monday, to hear the claims of the Ngatinaho and Ngatitipa tribes, the majority of both of which have been our allies throughout the war. The Maoris seem to
think that the awards ofthe Court are liberal beyond what they anticipated, and they, at least, have no reason to complain of that fabled monster, sometimes depicted to applauding crowds at Exeter Hall, as the grasping colonist of New Zealand ! — Weekly News.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 19, 26 March 1866, Page 3
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201WAIKATO LANDS COMPENSATION. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 19, 26 March 1866, Page 3
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