MANHATTAN ISLAND.
CLAIMED BY A NEW ZEALANDERi , There is (says a New York cable message which appeared in the Sydney "Sun" on. October 28) a man in New Zealand who reckons that Manhattan Island, at the mouth of the Hudson, is •his. 'Horatio Edwards is the man who puts forward this big claim, and he baa written to a firm of New York lawyers, whom he desires to take his case in hand. At Mr. Edwards's estimate the property ~is, worth. :£30,000,000. The claimant asserts" that he was the heir of Robert Edwards, who came to New York when a boy, and subsequently bought 65 acres of marsh, land in the central part of New York. - This property was after-: wards leased to the Government for a' cerra of 99 years. It was then subleased, and finally sold. The lawyers are now investigating Mr. Edwards'* claim. ■ . ■.■■' '. ■-
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 964, 3 November 1910, Page 6
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146MANHATTAN ISLAND. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 964, 3 November 1910, Page 6
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