THE WEBSTER CLAIMS.
A SPECIAL TRIBUNAL.
SOLICITOR-GENERAL LEAVING
FOR ENGLAND.
[b? texeg:
CORRESPONDENT.]
Welungtox, Monday, i. The Solicitor-General (Mr. J. W. Salmond) will leave for London on "Friday next, to represent New Zealand at the special tribunal that has been got up to settle one way or the other the long-stand-ing Webster claim.
It will be remembered that some ten years ago Dr. Fitchett accompanied Sir J. G. Ward to London in connection with this case, and that last year Sir John Findlay, on a similar mission, accompanied Sir Joseph Ward to London. Both these visits seem to have been somewhat, premature, because until quite recently the special tribunal to deal with this .'and other cases had not been appointed.
Sir Joseph .Ward, towards the close of the session of 1910, explained that the claim way one for £500,000, and was made originally by an American whaler, who had settled in the country years ago, and whose successors claimed to be the possessors of certain lands now owned by the Crown. The lands are. in the Auckland province.
Tho Solicitor-General will probably be absent from New Zealand for about six months.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15142, 5 November 1912, Page 8
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