TAKANAKI NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7844, 13 January 1887, Page 5

TAKANAKI NEWS.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] New Plymouth, Wednesday. The engineer of the harbour works states that ten or twelve intending contractors for wharves at the breakwater have been inspecting the site. Amongst the visitors were contractors from Auckland, Wellington, Chrietchurch, Danedin, and Inveroargill. At Urenui a draught mare, belonging to C. N. Rowe, foaled and brought lortn a horse foal with only two legs, viz., the hind ones and no fore onee. The shoulders are there : otherwise the foal is a very fine one. The Native Land Court In New Plymouth has concluded its sitting. One case was in reference to the will of a deceased Maori named Paora. The will sought to be established was to the effect that Mrs. Dβ Thierry, an aboriginal, was to inherit a certain property of 6'25 acres at Stoney River. The succession order was however opposed by six of the next of kin of the deceased. The evidence went to show that the will had been witnessed by two natives, one of whom was dead. The surviving witness testified that be never had witnessed the will in question. The Court ruled that it was not satisfied that the writing produced was a will, or that it had been executed as Buoh; it waa therefoie decreed that the deceased died intestate, and that the six next of kin should succeed to the intestate estate. None of the natives were arrested for forgery, notwithstanding this decision of the Judge, nor was anything said about the attempt to procure the property by fraud. ____