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An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand

Disputes

Disputes.

The state of excitement under which you are aware the Natives have laboured owing to the unsettled state of the land question has given rise to many disputes among themselves, as well as with Europeans, which have been duly adjusted; and I think the settlement of those grievances, trifling as some of them appear in their origin, has caused that better feeling which I observe to be springing up between both races; the Natives having, in many instances, come forward to the assistance of Europeans, and where injury to the property of the latter has been sustained they have been the first to bring their own people, when aggressors, before me to have the matter settled.