GISBORNE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5353, 24 May 1878, Page 4

GISBORNE.

(WiOM OUR OWN COKUE3PONDEM'.) Gisborne, Thursday.

The Foi'aiy Bay Herald has published the following latter re the publication of the late Captain Read's title of property left by him. It affects property to the value of 41200,000. Mr. JT, S. Macfarlauo is the chief executor to the estate :— ** J. S. MactarlanO, Esq., M.H.R., —Hear Sir, —Acting on behhlf of all the natives whoso lands or’interests in lands are claimed by yon in common with the other executors under the will of the late Mr. G. E. Road, having been sold, mortgaged; or_ leased to him during his lifetime, I beg to give you notice that unless I receive from you some definite offer of a settlement to which , I can accede, I shall at once proceed to assert the legal rights of my clients. I further to inform you that it in actions which I shall bring against you you choose to defend those which seem to mo defenceless, I shall use my best endeavors to provide against such waste of the money of the estate by moving in the Supreme Court to compel you to pay the casts of both sides out of your own personal estate. —I am, &c., W. L. Rees.” “ Shy—Lest it may be deemed wrong not to reply to any letters, however impertinent, senseless; or worthless, I beg to acknowledge tho receipt of yours dated the 21st, which is certainly tho most insolent, meaningless document I over beheld. Surely by this lime, and with the experience you often have bad of the notice X have always taken of any propositions from you, you might have Caved yourself the

trouble of making those contained in your letter, which would have, also saved me the unpleasant duty of having again to assure you that I cannot enter.lnto sny business with one so utterly void of business knowledge as you have always shown yourself to be. And further, as regards your threats, I am sorry to have to tell you certainly that all threats from one whose knowledge of law and: equity, or oven of what is right and fair between man and man, are, in my opinion, so insignificant.- that they may bo treated by mo with tho utmost contempt. In short, you have wasted one sheet of paper, and compelled me t> waste another. “ J.. S. MAcrAW-ANE. “ Gisborne, May 23, 1878.” . Tbu following correct particulars of the Patutabi land sale aro published by the llcrald ; The proceeds of the sale, were £37,000. . :Tbe. township sections realised £97 per acre;, the suburban lands, £lB j)er acre ; rural lands,j£9_ per :acre j and the Topotauo land, from £5 to, £17.'.." Of twenty thousand acres offered, six thousand six hundred and fifty were sold. . The deposits paid on the fall of the hammer ■were £1,7,400. ■