THE PROFERTY OF A SLAVF.

Otago Witness, Issue 2691, 11 October 1905, Page 79

THE PROFERTY OF A SLAVF.

AUCKLAND, October 3. Who succeeds to the property of a slave' wa« to-day the question for decision by Chief Judge Seth Smith and Judge Jackson Palmer, of the Native Appellate Court. During the Maori raids upon one another many persons were captured, and not killed or eaten, but were then made slaves. Oftenr one of these slaves was a chief or the son of a great chief of another tribe. In ths course of time a great friendliness would spring up betw.&en these slaves and th-eic ov, ners. and the owne.v would often give the slave a tract of land to live upon. II the slave married one of the tribe of his owners, then his children succeeded to his property in that tribe through the right derived from the person of that tribe what married tbc sla\e. But in the present caset the slave who had received land from his owner died without issue, and his adopted! child claimed to succeed. The descendants), of the cm ncr of the slave, however, claimec 1 ! iis property, because their ueople owne-iVj the slave, and he left no issue, and taa] slave's properly belonged t r ■'■"t" tv > "rrcr>rlme>i 1o thp law of ihe Hau'-a 1 " ' Appellate Covrt r-escr^-r ' It is understood that the Kui^. , ui.ey Club's recent race meeting resulted IS • profit of £140 or £151