NAPIER.
■..';:■■■ ' " Monday. Sir Donald McLean is seeking to purchase a block of land, from Eenata Kawepo, near the seventyrinile bush. The Rangitane have rights over the block. Heuheu Tapo and Tareha of Napier received £500 yesterday from Messrs Mitchell and Locke as a portion of the purchase money of the disputed block of land in the Wairoa district. It has been claimed by other natives resident here. A protest has been verbally lodged against the payment by a counter-claim-ant, who purposes, appealing to the Supreme Court. - The Herald attacks Mr Sheehan, being a Catholic, and,suggests that he comes here to lead the Catholic party instead of Mr Lee. It'considers that Mr Reader Wood has amalgamated the offices to sate the province £200 a year. The Herald publishes an anathema against Mr Brett and the Napier Telegraph re Sir George Grey's speech, the Telegraph having quoted the telegrams as "our own.' 1
Sir, Donald McLean is still perdu at Hastings. .■ ■.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1993, 25 May 1875, Page 2
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159NAPIER. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1993, 25 May 1875, Page 2
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