Report on Petition of Hirini Rawiri Taiwhanga and Others. (Presented in 1876.)

This is a petition presented last session, and referred back in consequence of the Native Affairs Committee of last year not having reported an opinion to the House.

The petitioners complain of the action of the Native Land Court in depriving them of three blocks of land near the Bay of Islands, and pray either that a rehearing of their case should be granted, or that £500 should be paid to them in cash, or that 200 acres should be returned to each of them out of the three blocks.

I am directed to report as follows:—

That the grievance which the petitioners really appear to have is against their own relations, who they allege sold the lands as grantees thereof, and did not fairly divide the money with other owners whose names were not in the grants. In the absence of any evidence, the Committee have no specific report to make.