TITLE TO LAND BY DIGESTION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7961, 3 September 1887, Page 3

TITLE TO LAND BY DIGESTION.

A newspaper called Overland contains the following humorous yarn: —

The Maoriß are logical reasouers, good debaters, fond of contentions, and as well up in the genealogy of their families as a Scotch Highlander, and as Btubborn when their rights are infringed upon. At a Native Land Court, a middle-aged Maori bad just finished making a long speech, claiming that hie name should be inserted in the grant, to the exclusion of that of an old grizzled Maori, who had sat quietly by without moving a muscle of his countenance, and heard the younger man ask in the course of his harangue, with much gesticulating : " Where are my ancestors buried but on this land, where I was born and brought up?"

When he had ended the old maa-eater rose, throwing everything off but a waistcloth, and bounding across the room, addressed the Court in this wise:

" I have listened with disgust and contempt to the words of thistuturu (nobody). What claim can he have to this land ? I conquered long ago the people that lived on that land when he was a small child, and tbe mistake I then made was in permitting him to live 1 And he asks, 'Where are his ancestors buried ?' I tell him, and show him. Here ! here 1" patting his stomach with his left hand. '' His ancestors are buried here. I ate them, and that is my title to the land." No better or stronger title to native lands can be brought before the Native Land Courts than the above, described "Title by Digestion."

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