ACTION INVOLVED 48 MILLION ACRES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14713, 19 September 1918, Page 5

ACTION INVOLVED 48 MILLION ACRES.

: -.'_•.. ■ . . . , • ..-•■• r i - >.■ ■ i •':■■ LCKNOON, July 30. 1 .By a decision of the Privy tJotmcil announced to-day j-tha dominatiim : of scilio forty-eight 'million acres of land m \soufiheriii Jlhodcsiii^ r€Jnain«» mi the Cvbwn, but the British South Africa Company will continue to administer tho hind 1 and mny be reimbursed >ih financial rtiutteis. With this decision, /one of tij\e biggest actions ev«er brought into (iw Brltifilx courts lias tiiuiUy been settled. Hiere Afere four <ri*uniia.tftW to tljo lrundj ovhioli i« known as* Slatabcleland, andi before 1888 was mlcd by Ix>Beiigula, ■chief of the Matabelie.?. "These cUtimaAits wei'e t/he Or t oiv.iv, ; <n % /* in^thea 1 wojvls',. the Jriil- ' perisil Govertlnient ; tlie Lejii'sSati'veC^feciil; the British South. Africa Conipairiy,, oi as it i« conunonly called, the Gliar.te^ed'fc^itipiiny, and. -the 'natives. . / The Compaq occupied the couatVy Jtftei? ithe ovei'throAv of Lobengula iSVid ftsserted that it Avas tlie owner of the una.lienated land of southern. Rhodesia. The Crown submitted that by assunnbg ■si protectorate over the territories, Queen Victoria assiiined complete rights and pbwm* ov&r them. . The natives, oa the othea* hand, claim the country never was annexed 1 by Great Britain, while tha>- I<egiaiative Cou^feil claimed the 'land 6iv behalf of the^inliabitant« of .southern Hhodesk. 'Mm laiter ciaini bro\igjit the Qaso into ilie courts, . .the company^ disputing the doritpntion of the Qg,uncil. Ai'guments before the Privy Council lastert upwaiSd;^6l a fortnight. ' X