NATIVE LAND COURT.
(By Telegraph.) I Wangant/i, March 15. Tho Nativo Land Court has been sitting here about three months, nnd has put through 750,000 acres. Tho Waimarino block of 490,000 was finished to-day. It has 40 miles frontage to the North Island Trunk lino, and contains good land. Largo purchnses of land m tho district have been completed lately by the new Crown Lands Commissioner, Mr W. J. Butler. It is expected the Court will adjourn for a short timo now, as the natives want to attend to their cropping. Te Angatae, with other influential chiefs from Tuhua, is coming here to-morrow to meet tho Native Minister next week.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3575, 16 March 1886, Page 3
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110NATIVE LAND COURT. Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3575, 16 March 1886, Page 3
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