INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 215, 11 March 1914, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.

'SOME HISTORICAL MATTERS FOR SETTLEMENT. THE WEBSTER CLAIMS. By Cable—Pres3 Association—Copyright Washington, March 9. Numerous cases of importance, including mooted questions of international law. will be decided by the International Tribunal of Arbitration, which begins its second session in Washington to-morrow. The commission was creat- ! <'d by treaty to adjust all outside pe-, cuniary claims against the United States and Great Britain. It is expected to hear twenty-six cases, ten American and sixteen British. Interesting historically, and of great importance to the State of New York, is the British claim for a million dollars on behalf of the Kakuga, Indians of Canada, owing to the withholding from them annuities pledged under the Treaty of Ghent. An American claim is that of the heirs of William Webster for lands in New Zealand, purchased by Webster seventy years ago. A similar claim for a million dollars is by the heirs of an American, Studer, for rubber land in Jahore, whose concessions were voided by the British Government.