COMPENSATION COURT.—Saturday.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1309, 27 January 1868, Page 3

COMPENSATION COURT.—Saturday.

(Before His Honor Judge Beokham.) Mr. Boardman appeared for the Government, and Mr. Preeco m interpreter. TE IWT, WAIUETT. This claim wns for one canoe, £20 ; 100 jngs, £150 ; thrashing nrnchine, £150; r.hare in mill at Pokeno, £50 ; boxes, boiler?, oven, mullet net, &c. Claimant that he lived at Waiulcu before the war. Government ordered 'aim to leave hia place. fJo could not take the things away. The canoe was a new one. By Blr. Soardoiari: Tho canoe was his own. property ; bought it at the Waiksto a year bsf.ire the war. The piga were about hia placa. Did not charge for little ones. Iho thrashing machine bolonged to asveral people; mimes given ; four of them are dead. Mr. (J. O. Davis's brother bought it for them three years before the war. It was left in. a house when they left their plase. He could not fetch it away. Has seen it sinca. Mr. nonstable took it, >ind now his it. It is being repaired. A good many of the ISg-teatn trib« (.\hipene'»), and other natives from the n iuhb mrhood wt-nr. to the war, but u.or« remaineJ at VVmuku. Claimant underwent a long cropa-exnmiu.ttion. CLAIM OP IUPATAO KaHHTJ. Thi3<laiai was for £131—thr.u canoes, £50 ; 20 pigs. £50; boxes, cloth*s, anl plough. The same general statement wits made ae to of loss, viz., tbat Government told him to leave his placu, a short distance froii Waiufcu, ami to go to the latter place, and could not take his thinys with him. CLAiar of ektjeti tcncti. This wa3 a claim for for horses, and £9 18s, for sundry oth'r articles. C'luimant. tlated that his horses were in charge of Hoii te Torm to doctor them. Hori went to the war mid left claimant'e horsea, and i o they wero 10-t. The remaining articles woro sitid to b» lost at Wuiuku. Tho Court then aHjourned till 2 o'clock on Monday.