CARTERTON.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6694, 30 September 1882, Page 2

CARTERTON.

(rsou OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) September 29.

The Native Lands Court business was yesterday brought to a close shortly after 4 o’clock, but it has daring the week been of a moat disjointed nature, constant adjournments of an hour or more durations taking place every day, to see if the Natives could come to an arrangement on disputed cases. The business of the Court has concluded with the following judgments :—Whakarai : Order to issue in favor of Takerei Hoepa and sir others. Wherawaitiri (4428 acres) : Order in favor of Ngatikoura and Ngatihinemau. Whakatohirinaki : Order in favor of Hoera Te Qaiata and 16 others. Ngatarahanga : In this, which has been the heavily disputed case of the week, order has been issued in favor of Pahira Takerei Hotupa and others. Mr James Mackay, succeeded, after a lot of talk, in getting the Natives interested in “Wherawaitiri to agree to subdivisions! boundaries,

and orders were issued in accordance with his report to the Court, which will opea business in Masterton on Monday. With the exception of the little fracas between Wi Waka and Ratima, and Ahitana Mateuga breaking his night before last while skylarking with some other Natives, the Maoris have been remarkably quiet all the time they have been here, and a general exodus took place this morning. With regard to the officers, I bars to thank Messrs Hamlin, Grey, _ and Mackay for the informatioD they have given me, and can attest their being really civil servants—th* pseudonyms of civil servants not invariably, by a long shot, being carried out in practice. The second-class shots of our local rifles had another match with Masterton, in that township, yesterday, but were unable to retrieTS their previous defeat, having to succumb to ft majority of seventy-seven points. A fl ix mill is abont to be started on the old. Belvidere Sawmill ground.