ACTION TO EJECT MAORIS.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Napier, Friday. The Supreme Court has been occupied three days by a peculiar case. It is an action by Kobson, a runholder at Mohaka, to eject a number of natives from 80 acres on his run of which they hold possession. Bobson bought the place with a Land Transfer Act title. When he took over tho land a few natives were squatting on it, but he was told that they were there on sufferance, and would go when requested. Later it transpired these natives claimed to have an interest in the land, and they refused to leave unless compelled to do so by the Court. The defence shortly was that the defendants were successors of one Hera, who had never parted with the interest in the block, but whose signature to a deed had been forged by another Maori. On that deed the existing title is based. The case has not yet concluded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8824, 12 March 1892, Page 5
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