OFFICAL BOASTINGS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1370, 6 July 1878, Page 3

OFFICAL BOASTINGS.

[“New Zealand Times.”] It is not very long since it was officially announced that a writ of scire facias was about to be issued to test the validity of the Crown grants issued to the Piako Swamp Company for the estate in Waikato, which has been the cause of so much flatulent declamation in the House of Representatives and on tho stump. These threats, like some “promises” that we wot of, have come to nought. We reprinted a few days ago an announcement made by our contemporary the “New Zealand Herald,” that the company’s title had been recorded under the Land Transfer Act at Auckland, after the question of the registration had been referred to Wellington for instructions. This was a challenge, in fact, to put these loud threats in force, and it has not been accepted. If the Crown grant for the Pepepe land, “containing coal,” has not also been brought under the operation of the Land Transfer Act, we hope that the owners will follow the same course, and give the same challenge with respect to it that has been given in respect to the Piako land. Then wo shall see whether or not the Premier has the courage to interfere with that process, and to repeat in a Court of Law tho mis-statements which ho has not been ashamed to make in his place in the House of Representatives, and on the stump during his recent tour, with regard to this particular land sale. Part of the foreshore at Kawau is quietly held now upon a title obtained by Mr Whitaker after an appeal to the Privy Council. Tho getting of this title was attempted to be pleaded by citizen George Jones as a justification for his own infamous libel upon the AttorneyGeneral, and it is to be hoped that the present Government will not allow all the alleged iniquities set out in Mr Jones’s great plea to obtain the sanction of an indefeasible legal title under the Land Transfer Act, without — even for the sake of appearances —an effort being made to test their legality in the Supreme Court. It is incumbent on those who protected citizen Jones against tho action of the House of Representatives to show that they believe in that distinguished “Liberal,” and in the falsehoods which have made him famous, and have cost tho country so much money.