CASE M'NAB V. HALES.
(To the Editor:)
Sir, — In your report of the case of Cowap v. Gamble, it is stated that I appeared for the defendant, it should have been for the plaintiff. In your report of the case M'Nab and others v. Hales and another, at the end of the evidence respecting the surveys of the ground in dispute, it is stated that " nothing further of interest was elicited," but perhaps you will allow me to supplement that report by pointing out that all the witnesses for the defence deposed to the fact that Hales and party were iv possession of the ground in dispute under miner's rights before the date of the leases, so that even if M'Nab's lease purported to give him the ground, the Crown had no right to alienate it ; and that being so and Hales and party being now the first applicants for it, the defence is that they are entitled to get it in their new lease. I would not have intruded on your space, but that this pomt — so far from being of "no interest " in the case — is one on which I strongly rely.
I am, &c, F. H. M'Coy. Lawrence, Nov. 24, 1870.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 147, 1 December 1870, Page 6
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204CASE M'NAB V. HALES. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 147, 1 December 1870, Page 6
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