486 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap, XA^II. 
course revived by the disallowance of the Act which 
had repealed it. 
The legislative wisdom of the Colonial Office appears 
from the fact that the restoration of the old rates of 
valuing the compensation and expenditure placed much 
more land in the hands of the claimants to the north 
than they held under the disallowed Ordinance, not- 
witiistanding the tixing of a limit to claims. A few 
large claimants were certainly restricted to 25r>0 acres ; 
but the great majority of claimants had bought quan- 
tities of land under the maximum at periods when 
their expenditure was allowed to entitle them to an 
acre for every 6d. or I*., instead of every 5s. And 
consequently, the very same claims which had entitled 
127 persons to 67,652 acres under the disallowed Or- 
dinance of 1842, entitled them to 72,002 acres under 
the revived Ordinance of 1841.* 
The Corporation Ordinance was disallowed, because 
it placed the power of establishing beacons and light- 
houses in the hands of the Corporation ; and because 
it vested in the Corporation all unappropriated lands 
within its limits, with the exception of certain re- 
serves. The objection to the latter power was, first, its 
being declared repugnant to the Act of Parliament for 
regulating the sale of the waste land of the Crown ; 
secondly, because it vested in the Corporation property 
of the Crown which her Majesty had not placed at the 
disposal of the Local Legislature ; and thirdly, because 
it might be attended with the improvident waste of a 
large extent of most valuable land. 
'^The first objection came with peculiarly bad grace 
from the Government, who had always obstructed 
rather than furthered any of these necessary erections 
* Revised award published in the New Zealand Government 
Gazette of 6th September 1843. 
