INTERESTING LAND CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81854, 29 September 1906, Page 2

INTERESTING LAND CASE.

UNEXPECTEDLY FIZZLES OUT. DEFENDANT SURRENDERS JJIS INTEREST. "A PROPER SETTLEMENT." The pubic thirst for sensation had lo remain unsatisfied on Friday. The Harding- v. Mcintosh case, which had occupied the Supreme Court for jhe two days previously, and which had aroused eonsiclerablo local inter(s', was settled out of court, after ■•(.■ mo delav..

\\ lien the caul was called 011, Mr Samuel, for the defence, announced that the defendant had agreed t 0 transfer all his interest in the faun to the Public Trustee, to be held in Uu»t lor defendanls two nieces, daughters of the plaintiff, as joint tenants. A full mite of the sett'ement had bei n put into court. Mr Samuel added thai he also wished unreservedly to withdraw anything he ] la( | sa j ( [ that mij|ht involv any discredit or aspersion on tho counsel < jr the solicitor for the plaintiff.

Or rindlny counsel lor the pontiff, said he |<u<'\v Mr Samuel sufficiently 10 know that he would say nothing' that eniild amount to a reflection 011 hini. lie was never lejt lor a moment under the assumption that there was a 1 efiect iim cast mi him, and he knew lull wi'll that' nil aspersion had been ca.M oil his colleague, Mr OuiHiam. 11 was due to Mr S. Mill. Government \ aluer. to say that having seen the details of his valuation, and after making enquiries, the valuation was icpiesented by value. The properiy was well worth the sum he had placed 011 it, and (he loan made by the Public Trustee was made on sufficient security. If any reflection had been 'asi on Mr llili, it was his duty as counsel to fully withdraw it now. I lis Honor said he was j. |;id the case had bee n sett'ed. It was one that ought 10 ho settled, anil the settlement was a very proper one for defendant to make,' The case would be adjourned to Chambers for settlement of the decree.