NORFOLK ISLAND.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13636, 2 July 1908, Page 5

NORFOLK ISLAND.

,'PLEA OF EVICTED ISLANDERS. ' Press Association-By Telepraph-Copyright . SYDNEY,, July 1., Mr Quintal, the Norfolk Island delegate, has laid before the Governor, papers in support of the plea of a numbec of evicted Islanders that their houses were given them by Queen Victoria in." 1856. __ The most-important is one from" Governor Denison *o,Sir George Grey, sent when the -island , was, being 'lt withdraws the suggestion to 'send ,an officer to regulate the allotment of land to families, as the Islanders themselves had placed a Magistrate in authority who could do.it.. He says:' "He has directed me (Gregorie),-witb.the-exception of a lew reserves fpr public, purposes, to divide the whole island between the newcomers, and the object ingoing so.is to check any attempt which-TnJghtMiet made on the part of the'inhabitants of the Australian Colonies to establish themselves on the island. It is essential" that the land should be -transferred tb«the newcomers in such a manner as t» give them the right to deal ,with it as their own." Legislative interference fram Colonial Governments shonld be kept out. ' Instructions were >. given Lieutenant 'Gregorie to-set j aside a.little public land and glebe, and that the remainder shou%be handedSßver to different heads-of families. ' " /-