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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVII, Issue 3380, 25 December 1871, Page 3

In the Auckland Provincial Council a motion was tabled to the effect that a sum of ten thousand pounds should be applied as compensation to such native owners of land as would consent to open their lands for goldfields and general settlement purposes, The motion was opposed by Mr Mackay, who said that it would hinder the settlement of the question. It was not a question of money. No money would do it. It was an obstruction caused by the attitude of two natives of opposite parties. The passing of the vote would show the desire to get bold of this land, nnd would put the settlement further off. 80 long ago as 1868 he made an agreement to give a bonus of £500, and £1000 to be paid from miners' rights to those natives ivbo would open their land for mining purposes. So far, that was settled. The best plan was not to teaso these natives. To show that money would not buy these natives, ho might state the fact that they would n.gt take a farthing for letting the telegraph lino go through their land, because, they said, it would take from them themana of tho land. — Tho motion was withdrawn.