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order of the Secretary of State who has lately approved of the appointurrent of the present

rar ow

Land Officer, and if M

Registrar Stephono' object

of theili for

attention to

in add

addressing

the Colonies

was

the Secretary

really

to any wrong arising,

from that measure,

to call

or which

it is to

could arise from

be

regretted for the sake of the

cause he

has taken up that he has not a better

case to support

his vieur.

Mr Stephens must know that the Land Officer has nothing to do

with the boundaries, or measurements

of land leased by the Soverscenecct — a plan of the land to be leased with memorandum of the measurements,

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extent and boundaries is

a

furnished by

the Surveyor Several to the land

Officer who thereupon fills up the

printed

re

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printed form of lease, adding there to the

special clareves if

if any,

and

forwards the

same to the Governor for signature.

The Loyd Offerer has nothing to

Land

do with preparing the plans or fixing

the

uwazurements and boundaries, he is

not in an

any way responsible for them, so that he is perfectly free, aved evebiassed, if afterwards called capacity to decide whether they

Correct or not.

called upon in another

Best in the present.

how absolutely nothing

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are

case our Stephens

Mr.

on which to found

his complaint against the anomaly of "the Land Officer afterwards sitting as "Judge altering the boundaries as - "granted by the lease."

I left Hougtong for Australia

on vacation leave on

th

the 11th May, 1887,

and