Our attention has been very frequently called to the subject *>f Land Claims but more particularly to the tenure by which the settlers hold their catile runs, &c. fr..m the natives, and especially those in the district of the Waira.ajia. In no place! »as the difficulty and inconvenience oi settling these questions, been more Celt than in Wellington and iis neighbourhood. Two Commissioners have been sent direc; from England to enquire into, and settle these claims, and we are willing to believe that they are settled, but it has been done with considerable con to the Government. With ihis experience before us, can it be good policy to allow the present c.infusion |° go on unchecked? We think not. Feuds and dissensions are fust springing Up between the settlers and the natives" In many instances might is right with the latter, so that not only is the while man subject to every kind of imposition from them, but we are told that even aniongsf the inaories themselves, no little jealousy has already arisen on those mat ters. Wβ have heard <.f stations being formed many, many, miles from this— and where indeed will English enterprise stop? but then lei some protecting power interpose and see that equal justice is done. Our contemporay insists upon the native title being exiingnisheu—but we ask him, liow is it to be done, certainly n«»t without a "Very largo expenditure of British treasure.
