NATIVE LAND DISPUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 85, 1 May 1901, Page 2

NATIVE LAND DISPUTE.

OPPOSITION TO SUItYKYS AT WAIHI. Quite a eensa'ion waa cms d in Now Plymouth yesterday when it became known tt-at loFp9ctor G'lliop, Sergt. Stagpoole, and seven constable?, had gone out to W»ihi in conFequ 1 ce of some native lmd dispute. Ihe greater interest was caused bee .use tba movements of the police had been kept a profound secret. The return of the police about 5 p.m. and the assu l ance that everything had pissed ofFamoothly >om rausod all intereit to flag. To Mr. T. W. Fisher we are indebted for particulars of the affair wLich are briefly that for sime timt pust the Native R wrv<sTrus'ee h s been sub dividing the native ressives in ihe Waihi district. Some time ago M<s. Marsh, a claimant in tie block, objected to.thi survey of blocks 6 and 7, and two informations weie sworn against her which wil be heard at ihe S.M. Court on Pi i lay. It appears that out of one block of 1921 feres 1166 are leisrd, bunging iu £136 8s 4d per annum. Of this Mis Marsh receives hir share. In addition she occupies land in another block, more, it is faid, than she iseuti led to, and also land to which she has no claim at a 1 Tn all there are some 43 claimants, and Mr. Fisher recoivrfd ordeis to p with the survoy fs these claimants had given notice that uokss the surwy to individuals) the lacd wai proceeded with they would petition Parliament for redress. Mr?. Murfh tbjo te on tho ground that the on'y ilaim th< claimants had w<re through her. Yesterday, Mr. Fisher, for tin Nat ve llservcs Trus'ee, proceeded with Mr. Ofcambeis to goon with the surv.y on block 4, Ngatiratiri. As fust as the pegs were put in Mts, Marsh kn'ck-d them out with on axe. On this being persisted in, in spito of Mr. Fisher threatening to cill assis'acce, the police, who had been left at some dis- ■ auce, were called in, when Mrs. Marsh let once wi'hdrew and allowed the survey to proceed wi'hont fuithir interruption. As no unlawful act was

commuted in the pro'ento of the poli e co arrest was made, and no understand no proceedings will be taken fu thoi than in the case of the info matiors previously laid relating to the removal uf survey p«gs on blocks 6 and 7. Mr. Fishf-r informs ux that he docs not mticipa'o any further oppost'on t'ia na'ives are generu'ly in ace >id with t,l e p licy of the Ka'ivo Unserves trustee in dialing with them) s. As the ma l ter comes before tin S.M n Friday we refrain from further comment at this ftage, woi e'y cingratu UVng Mr. Fisher on the tact di*pl»yed by him iu dealing wit'i je-tordaj's; ailUir, and bringing it to to satisfactory a CMwhwion,