Makauri.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 89, 22 December 1885, Page 2

Makauri.

(BVore Mr Greenwood, Registrar.) Various deeds were put in by different defendants. Mr Rees asked that the interest of the plaintiff, Samuel Locke, might be investigated. He had been informed that all Mr Locke’s interest was subject to a very heavy mortgage, and that the mortgagees were not parties to the suit. The legal estate was in them and not in Mr Locke, and the present suit could not go on without their consent. It was reported that the estate of Mr Locke was subject to a mortgage of /14,000 or thereabouts, and if so that would place the defendants in a very unsafe position as to the costs of this action. He thought it most important that Mr T.ocke’s right to maintain the present suit shou’d be cleared up. It apnearrd to him that Mr Locke had no such right u’Vess his mortgagees were pined. Mr further renuested that C< urt in favor of the defendants should be produced to the Registrar, when he believed it would be s-'en that although Mr T.ocke’s order was invalid yet the orders by the Native Lands Court in favor of the Maori owners were perfectly good, and ifthatwereso then the present enquiry was quite unnecessary. The Court adjourned till 2 o’clock today.