ALLEGED DUMMIES VINDICATING THEMSELVES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3133, 18 April 1883, Page 2

ALLEGED DUMMIES VINDICATING THEMSELVES.

[By Telegraph.]

Dunedin, April 17

The “Hobart Mercury" having quoted the Government auctioneer’s report concernipg the Tasmanian purchasers at the recent Otago land sales, Philip and Wm. Youug, of Clarence, wrote to the “ Mercury ’’ of April 11th as follows :—“ We are alleged to be dummies upon the ground that the cheques given for the purchase-money were those of the New Zealand Agency Company, and not money paid by us. Had we thought that any objection would have been raised to our employing the Agency Company to pay for us, we would have taken the money in our hands, and paid for it at the sale. The Otago Waste Land Board advertised the sale of land to take place on tlie 28th February. We left here and arrived at Dunedin ten days before the sale, and received such information of the land we bought from friends who know it thoroughly, as made it unneces-' 'sury for us to inspect it carefully as we otherwise would have done. We attended the sale, bought the land, paid the deposit, made the necessary declarations of being hom fide purchasers, and

did all that the Waste Land Act required of us, and therefore we indignantly deny the statement that we are dummies, and we think tht we have reason to complain of the way we are treated by the Otago Waste Land Board and the Otago newspapers.”