THE MAORI POACHING PROSECUTIONS.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, March 9. The hearing of the Maori fishing cases was resumed at Kaiapoi to-day. Counsel for the Natives contended that the Native rights of fishery guaranteed by the Queen in the Treaty of Waitangi could not be interfered with by the Colonial Government; that nndor these rights they were entitled to net all fish, and consequently to net trout. On tho other side it was contended that the Natives surrendered their right of Mahinga Kai by Major Kemp’s deed, and that under the decision of Judge Fenton in IS6B the Maoris here gave up their maims in consideration of a grant of land in the Timaru district. Judgment was .reserved.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 993, 13 March 1891, Page 26
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118THE MAORI POACHING PROSECUTIONS. New Zealand Mail, Issue 993, 13 March 1891, Page 26
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