A writer in an Auckland paper tells the following curious story :—A lawyer who has, as the sequel will show, been a long time in practice in Auckland, told a curious story the other day. Not long after he commenced practice, a man came into him and said that he was occupying land on an imperfect title, and he wanted to see if it could be made good. The lawyer looked into the matter, and Baid, 'Come back in 35 years, and I will be able to make it right, if you are then in undisturbed occupation, and we are both iu the land of the living.' He was surprised the other day when the same man stepped into bin office and remarked, 'You told me to come back in 35 years about this title. The 35 years are just up.' The necessary steps were taken, and the title was made good. But it is rather singular that the same man should be able to come back to tbe same lawyer,
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New Zealand Mail, 30 December 1892, Page 38
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