A BOUNDARY DISPUTE.
; % - ;. —■ ♦— •/ ■ .y. AUSTRALIAN-LITIGATION. By Teletrapb—Pre»» AMndab'va-Ooprrlcht I'< , Melbourne, February 21. The-Federal High Court has commenced a case in which South Australia .claims that the boundary ojf Victoria should be two and a quarter miles', from the point now shown; also the mesne profits from the year 1850. Mesne profits are profits of land taken by a tenant in wrongful possession, from the timo that the . wrongful possession commenced to the time of the trial of an action of.ejectment brought against him. The boundary betwwn Victoria and South Australia is the Hist meridian of east longitude, and is about 242 miles long. The- existing boundary between the two States has been recognised since 1894 without prejudice to readjustment. The detectlon of the error waft due to Victorian observers. A proclamation was issued ih 189* revoking the original proclamation of 1817 defining the boundary with Victoria on the ground that it was more than two miles'west of the 141 st meridian which had been fixed by the Imperial Government as the boundary line of the colony. ■:• A
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1058, 22 February 1911, Page 5
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177A BOUNDARY DISPUTE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1058, 22 February 1911, Page 5
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