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The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Saturday, February 16, 1889. THE NATIVE LANDS COURT.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God's, and truth’s.

We have received rather a rude shock by hearing that the Judge of the Native Lands Court now sitting here is under marching orders. Not long since, when the Court had opened for a few days and was about to be closed, a strong remonstrance instituted by ourselves, was made by the local bodies of this district, which had the effect of Judge Brabant being sent here. He has given universal satisfaction, and suitors here in the Native Lands Court were begining to hope that they could see the end of their troubles; but their relief has been but shortlived, their hopes have turned to delusions; the source from whence they looked for finality of their anxieties is but a mockery, and with some 300 or so of unfinished claims on the list the Court is about to be closed and the Judge removed, certainly not to a place more urgently in need of him than we are. Now, how are we to regard this movement ? Does it not exhibit a total want on the part of the Native Minister of due consideration and provision for our requirements ? How much longer shall our wants in this respect be steadily ignored ? or shall we again be mocked by the opening of a Court, only to be closed when it has fairly got under weigh and is giving general satisfaction ? No tribunal has been more required or more patiently waited for here than the N.L. Court. The natives as well as the Europeans are most anxious that Judge Brabant may continue his operations, and it is therefore all the more aggravating that he should be removed.

The Chairmen of the County and Borough Councils and the Harbor Board have communicated with the Native Minister, remonstrating against the closing of the Court, with what effect we shall by and bye see. We sincerely trust, for the good of the district, that such remonstrances may be officlual.

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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 261, 16 February 1889, Page 2

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The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Saturday, February 16, 1889. THE NATIVE LANDS COURT. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 261, 16 February 1889, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Saturday, February 16, 1889. THE NATIVE LANDS COURT. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 261, 16 February 1889, Page 2

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