A STRANGE CASE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1825, 4 August 1906, Page 3

A STRANGE CASE.

AN ABSENTEE’S RETURN. PRESS ASSOCIATION Dunedin, 'ast nigh*. An unusual ease wai mentioned in Chambers !o-day. In 1897 letters of administration were granted in tbo estate cf au ex-resider. t of Pott Chalmers, who had not leco bra dof by h ; s reiativ b for 16 yearp, and permi-eion was given to bis brother to sell certain property, consisting of ovor 7CO r.cres in tbo Auck'und distret. This land had been ntglco’rd. and wbon tho man left the colony in 1891 he did not give it into the hands of an agent. Ai » consequence the council thrca'onrd to srli the land for non-i ayramt of rates. In order to socuro the o-tatc thn brother tooa it upoD 'himself to louse Iho land a 9 a farm, aril to sell later. Lettors oi administration were gran'o3, and the land was sold. Four months ago the wandeior wreta to the Reg atrar of tho Supreme Couit, stating that ho had been informed his estate had boen administered,, and asking on what grounds. Tbo Registrar forwarded copies of tba affidavits before the Couit at tbe time, and there the mat’er rests for the present. Taero is lil'l • doubt tho proper claimant has written, as ho has gi ren tho correct numbers of tha sections and districts, one at Waiopu, and tiro ether in Parik'. In his let'.or the wanderer mentions that since leaving tbo c.-lony he has been a resident in London, Western Austrolio, Victoria, and New South Wales.