£630,000, 000 CLAIM
AGAINST AUSTRALIA POLISH COUNTS DESCENDANTS MINING BIGHTS BENEFITS. (Received 1.30 p.m.) WARSAW, October 23. Descendants of Count Strzelecki, who gave Mt. Kosciusko its _ name, plan to make a claim for £630,000,000 against * the Australian Government. The Polish Consul in Sydney is handing the Commonwealth a demand from the heirs of the Count, in respect of mineral rights conferred on him, which were surrendered to the British Government by his private secretary, following a successful lawsuit‘in 1876. The Strzlecki family claims would lapse, it is stated, by the effluxion of time in 1936.
The family has raised funds in America and Poland to sue the Common - wealth for recovery of all benefits, arising from exploitation of the supposed Strzlecki mining rights, totalling £630,000,000, unless the claim is settled out of Court. From Sydney it is stated that the Polish Consul-Gen-eral, M. L. . Noskowski, says he has heard nothing of a move to sue the Government, and doubts whether such suits could be seriously considered. He believes the claims would be invalid by the fact that the grants to Count Strzelecki were conditional with his settling in Australia, which he did not do.
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Northern Advocate, 24 October 1935, Page 7
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