No. 469 of 1882.—Petition of Ratana Ngahina and Utiku Marumaru.

Petitioners state that, owing to the action of Judge Heaphy at the Land Court held at Bull's, in 1880, in excluding lawyers from the Court after the case had been partially heard, they had suffered loss. They ask for £500 compensation.

I am directed to report as follows:—

That exactly similar petitions were presented in 1880 (No. 232) and 1882 (No. 469), and the matter was fully gone into. The Committee has no recommendation to make.