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11 By the said deed of the twenty-third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixtynine the said Frederick Alexander Whitaker and John Lundon invaded the surface right demised under the said lease to myself on the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. 12 The same parties having, under colour of miners' rights, taken up the ground included m the said leases to me, were, by a perpetual injunction issued by the Supreme Court, Auckland restrained from working on the said lands. Such injunction was granted against the proprietors of the golden Gate claim, in which the said Frederick Whitaker, of Auckland, is gazetted as a shareholder, holding three hundred shares of five pounds each. .__,_,. i t, 11 i 13 The holders of the Criterion claim, in which the said John Lundon is a shareholder, also working on the ground claimed by myself, were restrained by an ad interim, injunction ot the said Court, which said last injunction is still in full force and effect 14 From the aforesaid facts, I the said petitioner, James de Hirsch, most respectfully submit that « The Auckland Gold Fields Proclamation Act, 1869," will prejudice and affect my just rights, and practically inhibits me from taking the advantage and benefit that accrued to me by reason of my said .arrangements and leases. HmscH Sworn at Wellington, the 31st day of August, one thousand ei<*ht hundred and sixty-nine, before me, E. Stafford, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

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