NATIVE LAND COURT JUDG MENTS. A question of considerable importance wag raised in Judge's Chambers at the Supreme Court this morning before Mr Justice Conolly upon the following motion :—ln the matter of th« Land Transfer Act, the j Native Land Courb Act, 1886, and of an order for 2,010 acres in the Maungatautari block. Mr C. E. Button moved on sum mons to the District Land Registrar to show cause why he should not register an order of the Native Land Court made in favour of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Mr Cotter appeared on behalf of the Land Registrar to oppose the motion, He asked whether this matter should not be taken in Banco. His Honor was asked to direct the Registrar to vest in the applicants, a very large area of land valued at between £8,000 and £1,000, and to order that the Registrar should register this order from the Native Lands Court. There was no thing whatever to show that the present applicants were entitled to the land. Mr Button admitted that the matter was of importance, although the value of the land was not so high as stated by Mr Cotter. Its value was about £4,000. The important question was whether or not a judgment of the Native Lands Court on an order was to be binding on the Re gistrar or on all other parties, or whether, in such a proceeding as this, the Courb could go behind it. This matter was before the Chief Justice in Chambers some time ago, but the only record of the case was an endorsement on the summons, "I do not differ from the Registrar." He regretted that the matter had not been argued out. Bis Honor also thought the matter of importance and that it should be argued out, and adjourned the matter until this first sitting in Banco.
