MAORI DISTURBANCE.
NINETY-ONE NATIVES IN GAOL. New Plymouth, tvday. A total of 01 Maoris were convicted of trespassing on European lands. Each was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and > bound over to keep the peace for twelve i months. (Seventy-three Maoris were sent away to Wellington gaol and eight to Wanganui by the morning train. Wellington, to-day. v The Public Trustee explains that his department is only interested in three of the properties in tho Taranaki- district, for trespassing and ploughing on which Maoris have been punished. So far from the Natives being dissatisfied witli the Public Trustee's administration, many Maoris as well as European settlers have expressed the greatest satisfaction at the smoothness with which Native lauds are now being managed. — «»■«
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8055, 2 November 1897, Page 2
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122MAORI DISTURBANCE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8055, 2 November 1897, Page 2
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