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A compendium of official documents relative to native affairs in the South Island, Volume One.

Enclosure 1 in No. 82. — Memorandum by the Hon. J. C. Richmond

Enclosure 1 in No. 82.
Memorandum by the Hon. J. C. Richmond.

Wellington, 23rd October, 1867.

Referring to a question put by His Excellency on the subject of the Princes Street Reserve, Dunedin, I have made inquiry, and find that the Attorney-General advised that no appropriation by the Legislature was necessary to authorize the Colonial Treasurer to pay over the accrued rents to the grantee. He did not, however, express any opinion on the question whether the rents ought or ought not to follow a grant made under circumstances so peculiar as those of the present case.

His Excellency stated that he thought the expenses of a suit for testing the validity of the grant should be borne out of the accrued rents of the reserve. That fund is no longer in the Treasury; but page 156it is in His Excellency's power to order payment out of other rents of Native Reserves in which the claimants to Princes Street Reserve, amongst other persons, are interested. Ministers cannot, of course, offer any objection to a payment which His Excellency's personal connection with several proceedings relating to the Princes Street Reserve give him a peculiar right to direct.

J. C. Richmond.


His Excellency having raised the question whether any injustice to other claimants to the reserve would attend the payment of the expenses incurred in a suit by or on behalf of the Native claimants, Ministers are of opinion that no injustice would result.

J. C. Richmond