AN OLD TIME CLAIM.
There is quite an old time savour of romance about the half milliou claim that is just now being pressed against the Dominion and that the Solicitor-General has been sent to Loudon to treat of with the Imperial law authorities, (says our Palmerston morning contemporary). It dates right away back to the very beginning of the Colony when it was a resort of Yankee whalers when an American citizen purchased a big tract of country for the usual beads and blankets and tomahawks that were esteemed trade in those days. The land was sold by the Crown later, and from time to time the original purchaser or his heirs have been heard from, but the matter has never been taken seriously. Now, however, it may be also as a result of the glowing reports from the American fleet, the United States Government has taken it up and asks an enquiry through the Imperial authorities and the matter is sufficiently serious to necessitate Dr. Fitchett accompanying the Prime Minister. It isn’t the first claim of the kind we have had in New Zealand from the days when DeThiery was king. Let us hope it will not be made a casus belli.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 462, 22 June 1909, Page 2
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204AN OLD TIME CLAIM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 462, 22 June 1909, Page 2
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