NATIVE LANDS COURT.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 2590, 5 April 1877, Page 3

NATIVE LANDS COURT.

A sitting of the Native Lands Court, held under Gazette notification, was commenced at Shortland yesterday, in the building in rear of this Shortland Hotel. 11. A. Munro, Esq., Judge, presided, and conducted the business before tho Court. He was attended by Wiremu Mita Hikairo, Assessor; Mr Edward Hammond, Secretary of Native Lands Court for this district; and Mr J. C. Q. Austin, ltecord Clerk.

The Judge stated that, under the authority of the Chief Judge, ho should adjourn all the cases set down for hearing in which the Ngatimaru and Ngatitama. tera (tho Aroha and Ohinemuri nativoß)

tribes are interested, so long _as the aukatis set up by them were persisted in. If the aukatis were removed, and the parties could come down to the Court, the Chief Judge would order that the hearing of their claims should be proceeded with,

'lhe claims of natives to the Pohau blocks 2 and 3, near Shortland, were proceeded with, and memorials in' favour of Meriama te Ngahue and others ordered to be issued for block No. 2, and in favour of Turaone and another for block No. 3. The memorial re block Te Tipi, Waiwliakauranga, was next gone into, and an order made in favour of Eepiu Tokati and others. .

The judge then proceeded with a number of succession orders, and cleared many of them off tho list before the rising of the Court, soon after 5 p.m. These orders were all in favour of the descendants of deceased owners who made good their claims to the land. The settlement of succession claims is the principal business remaining to be disposed of in the absence of the Ohicemuri and Aroha native claims. A block of land at the Piako remains to be passed through, and somo fresh claims which require to be gazetted are expected to come on for hearing about the 23rd instant.