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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 196, 28 November 1910, Page 8

There is (says a New York cable message which appeared in the Sydney Sun on October 28) a man in New Zealand who reckons that Manhattan Island, at the mouth of the Hudson, is his. Horatio Edwards is the man who puts forward this big claim, and he has written to a firm of New York lawyers, whom he de< sires to take his case da hand. At Mr. Edward's estimate the .property i 8 worth £30,000,000. The claimant asserts that he was the heir of Robert Edwards who came to New York when a boy' and subsequently bought 65 acres of marsh land in the central part of liTevr i .1 * is P r °P ert y was afterwards leased to the Government-for a term of 99 years. It was then sub-leased, and finally sold. The lawyers are now hires. .tigatmg Mr. Edwards' claim