Te Wananga. Published every Saturday. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1878.
We would call the attention of our Maori readers to the speech of the Honorable the Native Minister. And we would also remind those Natives who may be labouring under a false impression in regard to tbe acts of what they call " the Native Office in Napier," that that Native Office is not, as some Europeans call it, an office to cause the Natives to repudiate all sales of land, but the object and determination of those who conduct the office in Napier is to compel those who have acquired land by fraudulent pretensions to make a fair and equitable compensation to those from whom any land may have been acquired by false means. The Napier office is one which is conducted strictly on the principle, that where injustice has practised, the law jnust look into the.case, and the law is to. say (and not the selfishness of men) what are the legal rights of all. Tbe Napier office has acted, and ever will act, in justice to all. It has not encouraged, neither will it ever encourage, anyone to repudiate any engagement entered into open-eyed, even though such engagement was to his own hurt. But where there has been fraud, where the European, skilfully advised, has en.
trapped the un-advised Maori into signing deeds he knew neither the meaning or purport of, then does the Napier office encourage resistance to that •which is against eauity and justice, and has lent and will lend all its strength to upset and set aside the deeds, conveyances, leases, or other -engagements which could not stand for an hour in any court of judicature in England. At the same time, where deeds are incomplete by accident rather than by intention, there is no intention to embarrass the European or Native who has acted in good faith. It will be soon recognised that the European with deficient title who has acted honestly has no better friend than the Napier Native Office.
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Wananga, Volume 5, Issue 30, 27 July 1878, Page 370
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336Te Wananga. Published every Saturday. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1878. Wananga, Volume 5, Issue 30, 27 July 1878, Page 370
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