THE WEBSTER CLAIMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15603, 5 November 1912, Page 6

THE WEBSTER CLAIMS

SPECIAL TRIBUNAL APPOINTED, SOLICITOR-GENERAL PROCEEDING TO ENGLAND. (FIIOM OCR Ow.X C'ORRESrO.VDEST.) WELLINGTON, November 4. Mr J. Salniond (Solicitor-general) will leave for London on Friday next to ropiesent New Zealand at the special tribunal that lias been set up to settle one way or the other tlie long-standing Webster claims.

It will bo remembered that some few years Dr Fitchett accompanied Sir Joseph Ward to London in connection with this case, and that iiist year Sir John Findlay, on a similar mission, accompanied Sir Joseph. Ward to Ixmdon. lioth those. visits seem to have boon somewhat premature, because until quito recently the special tribunal to deal with this ami oth-?r eases had not been appointed. Towards the close of the seesion of 1910 Sir ,)mn\\ Ward explained that the claim wis otw for 5500,000. and «;us made originally hv in American whaler who had settled iti the country years ago, and whose successors claimed to be Uie possessors of certain kinds now owned by the Crown. The lands arc in the Auckland province.

Tlie Solicitor-general will probably he •ihsent from New Zealand for about six months.