To the Editor of the " Lyttelton Times."
Sic, —May I request you will correct a very great error which has been made in your report of the few words spoken by me on the debate last. Thursday evening on pre-emptive rights. What, I did say was to this effect: that although I did not feel competent to enter into the legal points in question, I could and did form an unhesitating opinion on the subject from the explanations (riven in public, and privately to the first land-purchasers by the Canterbury Association's authorities in London; and that I felt confident that no such claims were for a moment contemplated as those now attempted to be set up in favour of pre-emp-tive right holders. As I was far from assenting to the sentiments of the legal or lav members on the other side, I hope you will excuse my troubling you with these few lines.
1 am, Sir, your obedient servant, Charles Bowen.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 373, 31 May 1856, Page 7
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