TOLOGA BAY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 61, 8 February 1884, Page 3

TOLOGA BAY.

Oth Feb. 1884. Tu advent of the Court Officials, Land Agents, Interpreters, and Native litigants has created quite an unusual stir in our township. Storekeepers and publicans are roused from their normal quietude, sanguine of large |etqrns from the numerous visitors from all parts. On Monday morning the Rosins arrived off the river and landed Judge Brookfield and staff under the north head, being unable to enter the river, At high-water she steamed in, but the channel having shifted since the steamer’s last visit) she struck upon a sandbink, and up to the present all efforts to float her have been ineffective. She is, however, expected to get off to-night. Large numbers of Natives are gathering from north and south to attend the opening of the Court to-day. The claimants in Ngatiporou cases are to apply for an adjournment of their claims to the next sitting of the Court at Waiapu, a request that will probably be complied with. The Crown claims are adjourned till the 25th, at the request of R. J. Gill, the Undersecretary for Land Purchase, by which date he will be in attendance. The cause-list is a long one, but many of the claims are repetitions, and many others, for various reasons, cannot be adjudicated upon, and the session will be much shorter than anticipated. A telegram has been received from Rotorua that a well-known Native chief of this place, Htepbta Maitai, has seriously and dangerously scalded himself by falling into a boiling spring. His wife and children are in a state of great anxiety. Nominations for candidates to fill the vacancy in the County Council for Tolago Riding takes place on the 14th instant. A Well-known resident of Gisborne has been asked to stand.